Best Chicago Culinary Innovators on YouTube (2025)

Published: April 22, 2025

Explore a curated selection of Chicago-based culinary influencers on YouTube, showcasing diverse food experiences and cultural stories. These influencers highlight Chicago's vibrant food scene through unique content, from local eats to global culinary adventures. To explore more influencers, visit our platform.

Nano(1K-10K)

Provides authentic food reviews and experiences in Chicago's culinary scene.
1

Content Focus

Food reviews | Culinary experiences | Chicago restaurants

Instagram @Nsmm_g

7.4K
followers
328
posts
Explores food, travel, and lifestyle with a focus on Chicago adventures.
2

Content Focus

Food | Travel | Lifestyle

Sharing the best of food, travel, and lifestyle from Chicago and beyond! instagram.com/danielromeohh tiktok.com/danielromeohh Email→ danielromeohh@gmail.com

6.8K
followers
112
posts
Candid interviews with celebrities over drinks, offering culinary insights.
3

Content Focus

celebrity interviews | culinary insights | entertainment

A Drink With / adrinkwith.com is a one-of-a-kind web series that sits down with influential celebrities, artists, athletes and entrepreneurs in a candid, unfiltered light not found in traditional press. Launched in 2011, A Drink With publishes weekly features on national and local industry leaders. Our goal is to bring back honest conversation in media. Readers find themselves entertained but also take away something meaningful and inspirational. We capture true personalities. Whether it’s coffee or beer, our relaxed atmosphere gives our interview subjects the comfort they need to open up to us in thoughtful ways.

4.4K
followers
124
posts
Delivers in-depth reviews of Chicago's restaurant scene.
4

Content Focus

Chicago restaurants | Culinary reviews
3.5K
followers
875
posts
Explores food and travel with a focus on fun experiences.
5

Content Focus

Food exploration | Travel experiences

Travel food fun

3.1K
followers
1.0K
posts
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Shares food and lifestyle insights with a personal touch.
6

Content Focus

food | lifestyle | vlogs

Hello! I'm Cat Zhang, a 28 year old currently living in Chicago sharing snippets of my life in the form of food and lifestyle videos. :) Amateur cook, professional eater. -- MY BLOGS -- Never Stationary (catherinezhang.me) Cat the Critic (catthecritic.wordpress.com) -- SOCIAL MEDIA -- Instagram: @catdiggedydog // @catthecritic Twitter: @catdiggedydog Soundcloud: @catdiggedydog

2.7K
followers
433
posts

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Micro(10K-100K)

Korean-Puerto Rican duo sharing diverse food and travel stories from Chicago.
1

Content Focus

Food & culture | Recipes | Travel stories

Welcome to Maria and Nabol's food & culture channel! We’re a Korean-Puerto Rican couple based in Chicago sharing great eats & travel stories. Our channel is an extension of our Kimchi & Beans blog and magazine where you can expect lots of new recipes, great markets and neighborhoods to eat around Chicago, and lots of travel inspiration. Why Kimchi and Beans? It’s a fun way to honor our Caribbean and Korean backgrounds, as well as the amazing cultural diversity featured in many of our stories. You’ll see stories/videos that touch on our Caribbean upbringing, our experience living in different US cities and traveling to new countries. For partnerships, questions and additional information on projects we've worked on, feel free to contact us at Kimchiandbeans@gmail.com.

10.5K
followers
516
posts
Offers vibrant restaurant vlogs and food recommendations in Chicago.
2

Content Focus

Food recommendations | Restaurant vlogs

Looking for an apartment, my other socials and more: https://linktr.ee/cairabutton Email for Collabs: Hello@cairabutton.com IG: @cairabutton

43.1K
followers
652
posts
Delivers insightful restaurant reviews and lifestyle vlogs with a culinary twist.
3

Content Focus

Culinary experiences | Restaurant reviews | Lifestyle vlogging

business — angelineeabey@gmail.com https://bio.site/angelineeeya

80.8K
followers
338
posts
Captures travel and food adventures through cinematic, personal vlogs.
4

Content Focus

Travel Vlogs | Food Tours

Part-Time Filmmaker, Full-time Traveler. See the world through the eyes of JHMedium through cinematic vlogs with a personal touch.

19.5K
followers
78
posts
Shares cultural and culinary travel stories with a focus on Mexican roots.
5

Content Focus

Culinary experiences | Travel stories | Cultural exploration

We are two Mexican-Americans from Chicago who love to eat, dance, and travel. If you are a traveler, or an aspiring traveler, who enjoys off-the-beaten path experiences, join us as we share our travel stories: past, present and future during uncertain times (looking at you, COVID). Our travels are guided by our passion for good eats, latin dancing, and culture, so while we do visit some touristy attractions, we aim to fill our hearts with local experiences. Most importantly, we are on a journey to strengthen our Mexican roots. Our parents migrated to the USA from Mexico, and now, we're to migrating "back" to the motherland. We are part of the reverse migration generation. #deaquíydeallá If you’d like to support our content, you can send us a gift to Paypal.me/eatbailatravel or you can buy us a “coffee” at ☕️☕️☕️ https://buymeacoffee.com/eatbailatravel OR! JOIN OUR PATREON COMMUNITY https://patreon.com/eatbailatravel

36.4K
followers
235
posts
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Combines humor with food reviews for engaging and entertaining content.
6

Content Focus

Food reviews | Comedy skits

Completing Side Quests

27.1K
followers
136
posts
Explores food, travel, and lifestyle with a focus on local Chicago eats.
7

Content Focus

food | travel | lifestyle

food, travel, lifestyle, & more !

94.9K
followers
384
posts
Showcases premium seafood experiences and culinary adventures.
8

Content Focus

seafood | culinary experiences
30.7K
followers
103
posts
Features must-try food experiences with engaging culinary content.
9

Content Focus

Food content | Culinary experiences

Food content w/ Large @barstoolsports

21.8K
followers
156
posts

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Macro(100K-1M)

Explores global culinary experiences with engaging food-focused content.
1

Content Focus

Food experiences | Culinary exploration

Chowin down a hater at a time cody@jakerosenentertainment.com

577.0K
followers
225
posts
High-energy travel and food content with a boxing twist.
2

Content Focus

Food | Travel | Boxing

Hello, my name is Yuddy (Yuddygangtv ) Actor and @misfitsboxing #1 Ranked Lightweight Contender I truly love creating high-energy content , travel guides about different foods and Boxing .. Be prepared to see uncut live, raw footage in Countries around the World. I decided to live my dreams. Please support my channel by Subscribing and watching my content Thank you so much I greatly appreciate it Video' s uploaded 4 time a week, Subscribe immediately and hit the notification bell so you won't miss any of the action . For collabs, promo's, and sponsorship. Contact me at yuddygangtv@gmail.com or Instagram @officialyuddygangtv for Collab prices & promo’s yuddygangtv.com

289.0K
followers
2.5K
posts
Offers immersive food, drink, and hospitality experiences.
3

Content Focus

Food | Drink | Hospitality

Taste is your all-in-one food, drink and hospitality experience. Sink your teeth into our delicious series and discover hundreds of episodes that will get your taste buds tingling. You’ll discover amazing recipes, foodie travels and hospitality experiences that are truly out of this world. Content distributed by ITV Studios.

206.0K
followers
579
posts

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Mega(1M+)

Vegan cooking expert blending Korean cuisine with innovative culinary storytelling.
1

Content Focus

Vegan cooking | Korean cuisine | Culinary innovation

Joanne Lee Molinaro is a Korean American trial lawyer, New York Times best-selling author, James Beard Award-winner, and host of the Are You Ready podcast. With nearly 5 million fans spread across her social media platforms, Joanne has appeared on The Food Network, CBS Saturday Morning, ABC's Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Today Show, PBS, and The Rich Roll Podcast. She's been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, and CNN; and her debut cookbook was selected as one of “The Best Cookbooks of 2021” by The New York Times and The New Yorker among others. Website: https://bit.ly/TKVWebsite The Korean Vegan Cookbook: https://bit.ly/TKVCookbook The Korean Vegan Kollective: https://bit.ly/TKVMealPlanner The Korean Vegan Podcast: https://bit.ly/TKVPodcast Linktree: https://bit.ly/TKVLinktree Find me on Social: Instagram: https://bit.ly/TKVInstagram TikTok: https://bit.ly/TKVTikTok Twitter: https://bit.ly/TKVTwitter Facebook: https://bit.ly/TKVFacebook

1.2M
followers
767
posts
Engaging culinary and lifestyle vlogs with new episodes every Sunday.
2

Content Focus

Culinary experiences | Lifestyle vlogs

NEW episodes of The Khans coming every Sunday! See you there :) 📧 rezaandpuja@currentsmgmt.com

3.9M
followers
925
posts

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