• We already know the best restaurants of the year, but Time Out Chicago's staff (Julia Kramer, David Tamarkin, Heather Shouse) give us 100 more reasons to eat out with their round-up of best bites and drinks of 2011. [TOC]
• Mike Sula ups the ante by 33, with his list of 133 tasty things from 2011, where he even gives credit to "the most loathed and forgettable restaurants" such as the snapper ballotine from his hypercritical takeaway at Paris Club. [Chicago Reader]
• Newbie blog Serious Eats Chicago makes a seriously convincing argument for tripe tacos from La Chaparrita Taqueria #1 and Turduckel from iNG with Nick Kindelsperger's round-up of eight great bites from 2011. [Serious Eats Chicago]
• From Spicy Tofu Stir Fry at Phoenix Bean to Huaraches Huitlacoche at Huaraches Dona Chio, Phil Vettel and Kevin Pang offer some under the radar bites mingled within their ongoing round-up of Chicago's must-try dishes that we're keeping in mind for 2012. [Chicago Tribune]
• Apparently the folks at New City ate a lot of birthday cakes, waffles, and French desserts to determine the best of each category for their annual Top 5 of Everything list. [New City]
• Or you can just bypass all of these and see the critical opinions in one comprehensive space at Eater, which hosted an end of year round table consulting Chicago's food experts on the year's best. [Eater]
