# Food & Dining search demand in Chicago THE SEARCH LEDGER · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS · FOOD & DINING Every month Chicago types 8,490,920 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them. BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/chicago/food-dining#colophon) 1,572 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Chicago metro, Sep 8, 2026 8,490,920 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Chicago metro, Sep 8, 2026 $5.3M MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $1.36 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Chicago metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Chicago searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in JUL and lowest in JAN. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 67, February 69, March 76, April 74, May 89, June 89, July 100, August 97, September 88, October 91, November 76, December 76. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Chicago — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Chicago pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 1,572 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“bar siena chicago”** at $1.58. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 4,090,000 | $0.48 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | breakfast near me | 450,000 | $0.37 | 23 | transactional | | 3 | pizza near me | 450,000 | $0.97 | 12 | transactional | | 4 | bars near me | 450,000 | $0.28 | 0 | transactional | | 5 | lou mal pizza | 301,000 | $0.35 | | commercial | | 6 | coffee shops near me | 301,000 | $0.31 | 0 | transactional | | 7 | pequods pizza | 110,000 | $0.68 | | commercial | | 8 | gilt bar chicago | 60,500 | $0.33 | 4 | commercial | | 9 | london rooftop chicago | 49,500 | $0.87 | | branded | | 10 | chicago pizza grinder | 49,500 | $0.30 | 18 | commercial | | 11 | cafe ba ba reeba chicago | 49,500 | $1.14 | 9 | commercial | | 12 | emporium bar chicago | 40,500 | $0.39 | 16 | commercial | | 13 | andy's jazz bar chicago | 33,100 | $0.20 | 25 | commercial | | 14 | chicago pizza | 27,100 | $0.55 | 15 | commercial | | 15 | italian restaurants chicago | 27,100 | $1.18 | 35 | commercial | | 16 | west loop restaurants | 27,100 | $1.35 | 4 | commercial | | 17 | restaurantes chicago | 27,100 | $1.27 | | informational | | 18 | bar siena chicago | 27,100 | $1.58 | 23 | commercial | | 19 | chicago nutella cafe | 27,100 | $0.27 | 20 | commercial | | 20 | eleven city diner chicago | 27,100 | $0.48 | 1 | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Chicago metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored. ## Who owns the Chicago food & dining results Live position tracking for the tracked keyword in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one. lou malnati pizza MAP PACK - 1 Lou Malnati's Pizzeria - 2 Lou Malnati's Pizzeria - 3 Lou Malnati's Pizzeria ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 loumalnatis.com LOCAL - 2 tastesofchicago.com - 3 instagram.com LOCAL - 4 en.wikipedia.org LOCAL - 5 yelp.com Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Chicago metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track. ## The food & dining businesses competing in Chicago The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are. | RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #1 | Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse | 4.8 ★ | 28,239 | Brazilian | YES | | #2 | Giordano's | 4.5 ★ | 26,636 | Pizza | YES | | #3 | Fogo de Chão Brazilian Steakhouse | 4.8 ★ | 25,777 | Brazilian | YES | | #4 | Gino's East | 4.7 ★ | 20,504 | Pizza | YES | | #5 | Pizzeria Portofino | 4.9 ★ | 18,976 | Pizza | YES | | #6 | Kitchen + Kocktails By Kevin Kelley - Chicago | 4.7 ★ | 18,972 | Soul | YES | | #7 | STK Steakhouse | 4.7 ★ | 18,175 | Steak | YES | | #8 | RAMEN-SAN | 4.7 ★ | 17,866 | Ramen | YES | | #9 | Giordano's | 4.4 ★ | 16,030 | Pizza | YES | | #10 | Lou Malnati's Pizzeria | 4.4 ★ | 13,487 | Pizza | YES | | #11 | Giordano's | 4.6 ★ | 13,277 | Pizza | YES | | #12 | Au Cheval | 4.7 ★ | 13,053 | American | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Chicago metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim. ## Food & Dining brands Chicago searches by name Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for. london rooftop chicago 49,500/mo frontera grill chicago 22,200/mo wormhole coffee chicago 18,100/mo white palace grill chicago 9,900/mo cerise rooftop chicago 6,600/mo cindy's rooftop chicago 5,400/mo cubs rooftop 5,400/mo wrigleyville rooftops 5,400/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Chicago metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Chicago asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Chicago food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What is Barack Obama's favorite pizza? What makes Lou Malnatis pizza so good? What is Oprah's favorite pizza in Chicago? Who has better pizza, Giordano's or Lou Malnatis? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Chicago metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here. ## Rank for these searches Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today. [SCAN YOUR SITE FREE](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan) [Restaurant SEO](https://seobandwagon.com/restaurant-seo) ## More Chicago search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled. Chicago, Illinois · Food & Dining · 1,572 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026 Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 1,572 food & dining keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. If a number here is wrong, [tell us](https://seobandwagon.com/contact). --- Canonical page: https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/chicago/food-dining Every metro: https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo#cities Data reuse license: https://seobandwagon.com/data-license Site overview for agents: https://seobandwagon.com/llms.txt · API docs: https://seobandwagon.com/docs/api