Our story
We believe every neighborhood has a story worth tasting
Our City Food Tours was born from a simple conviction: the best way to understand Chicago is to eat your way through it, block by block, with someone who knows kitchens.
Why we started this
Chicago has a food story that goes way beyond deep dish pizza and hot dogs. We love them, truly, but they're not the whole picture. This city is home to some of the most vibrant immigrant food communities in the country, and for years we watched visitors leave without ever finding any of it.
We built Our City Food Tours to change that. A tour for Chicagoans who think they know their city and want to go deeper. A tour for visitors who want the real thing, not the tourist version. A perfect date night, a solo adventure, or a group outing. Wherever you're coming from, this is Chicago as its people actually eat it.
After years running restaurants, Dave and Megan had built deep relationships across Chicago's culinary communities. Every tour is built on those relationships: six tastings, small groups, and at least one dish that makes you wonder why you haven't been coming here for years.
What we stand for
Neighborhood first
Every tour is designed around a single neighborhood's identity: its history, its immigrant communities, and the food that defines it.
Small groups only
We cap every public tour at 12 guests. You get real access, real conversation, and a guide who can actually answer your questions.
Chef-led, always
Dave and Megan lead every tour personally. You're not getting a script. You're getting two decades of culinary knowledge and genuine relationships with the people who feed this city.
Community over commerce
We don't take commissions from the places we visit. Our recommendations are honest because our reputation depends on them being honest.
Meet your guides
Dave and Megan Miller have spent two decades building, running, and eating at Chicago's most beloved neighborhood restaurants. Now they take you inside the city they know best.
Dave Miller
Restauranteur & Chef
Dave Miller is a chef, restauranteur and lifelong food obsessive. After decades in the restaurant industry he's spent years exploring Chicago's diverse neighborhoods seeking out family restaurants, hidden gems and the dishes that tell the story of the city. He loves introducing people to places they'd never find on their own. Right now he's on a Korean food journey.
Megan Miller
Restauranteur & Pastry Chef
Megan Miller is a pastry chef, restauranteur and life long Chicagoan. Her years in the food industry have given her a deep appreciation for the people traditions and cultures that make Chicago such a wonderful food city. She's happiest exploring a new neighborhood, finding something sweet to eat and sharing it with other curious eaters. Her favorite food is changes but right now it is mexican.
The neighborhoods we explore
Chicago's most globally diverse corridors, each one a world unto itself.
Albany Park
Now bookingThe most globally diverse neighborhood in Chicago. Korean, Mexican, Uyghur, Middle Eastern, and Persian cuisines share the same block.
Devon Avenue
Coming soonChicago's South Asian corridor: a mile of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi restaurants, grocers, and sweet shops unlike anywhere else in the Midwest.
Chinatown
Coming soonOne of the oldest and most intact Chinatowns in the country. Dim sum, roast duck, hand-pulled noodles, and a community that has been feeding Chicago for over a century.
Argyle Street
Coming soonChicago's Vietnamese corridor in Uptown. A single block holds some of the best pho, bánh mì, and bubble tea in the Midwest.
Ready to eat your way through Chicago?
Albany Park tours are now booking. Private and corporate tours available year-round.