Middle Eastern restaurants in Chicago

57 trading today — 1% of every restaurant open in the city. 210 have held a licence here since 2002, and 17 opened in the last 24 months.

How long Middle Eastern restaurants last

Measured only on restaurants that opened long enough ago to have reached 4 years, so recent openings cannot flatter it. A rate is published only where at least 40 have.

Where Middle Eastern clusters

By community area, most open today first. Counts only — a four-year survival rate needs 40 matured restaurants and only ≈16% of these cells have that many, so the rate lives below, where it can be quoted honestly.

By zip code

The same cut for anyone working from an address rather than a neighbourhood name.

Thinking about opening one?

This page is the record: what has been tried, where, and how long it lasted. A read scores a specific concept at a specific address against it — including whether Middle Eastern is the strongest thing you could put in that space. One full read a month is free, no card.