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Jibarito in Chicago, IL, ranked by the locals who eat there.

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Top 4 Jibarito in Chicago

  1. 1

    Borinquen

    North Center

    The originator: Juan 'Pete' Figueroa invented the jibarito at the Figueroa family's Humboldt Park Borinquen Restaurant in 1996; the family reopened on North Western as Borinquen Lounge and the steak-and-garlic original remains the definitional version.

  2. 2

    Papa's Cache Sabroso

    Humboldt Park

    The Humboldt Park BYOB that has held down the Paseo Boricua jibarito throne since 2001 — steak, chicken or vegetarian layered between fried green plantains with garlic mayo, listed on virtually every Chicago jibarito guide.

  3. 3

    Jibaritos y Más

    Logan Square

    The Logan Square specialist Infatuation routinely credits with one of the city's best jibaritos; the family-run shop is also locally beloved for donating meals daily to neighbors in Humboldt Park and Logan Square.

  4. 4

    Nellie’s Restaurant

    Humboldt Park

    Pablo and Cindy Espinosa's 2006 Humboldt Park diner is the breakfast-jibarito standard-bearer on Division Street — a morning-service plantain sandwich stacked with eggs, cheese and your choice of meat.

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