Food & drink in Oak Park, IL

We read 100 businesses across 5 trades — the businesses someone searching in Oak Park, IL is shown — and recorded what their Google reviews look like.

Measured 2026-09-24 from public Google listings. Ranked on reply behaviour, never on star rating.

The largest listing among the food and drink businesses in this section is Pete's Market #12 - Oak Park I, read under bakeries, at 4,741 reviews. Its owner answered 10 of its 10 most recent reviews. The next-largest bakery listings we read carry 849 and 575 reviews, and the median bakery of the 20 we read carries 189, with a median rating of 4.7.

Of the five trades in this section, restaurants carry the highest median review count. The median restaurant among the 20 someone searching in Oak Park, IL is shown carries 632 reviews, and the three most-reviewed carry 2,410, 1,874 and 1,626. The restaurant we read answering the most of its recent reviews is Taco Pros - Oak Park, which answered 9 of 10. The median restaurant rating is 4.6.

Coffee shops have the highest median rating in this group, at 4.8, on a median of 137 reviews. The coffee shops we read answering the most of their recent reviews are Spilt Milk at 8 of 10, Kribi Coffee Cafe & Roastery at 5 of 10, and Mulata Kitchen + Coffee at 1 of 10. Two of those names also turn up in other trades here: Spilt Milk is read among the bakeries as well, at the same 8 of 10, and Mulata Kitchen + Coffee is the café we read answering the most, at 1 of 10. The median café we read carries 187 reviews and rates 4.7; the most-reviewed carries 936.

Among the bars we read, O'Sullivan's Public House answered 3 of its 10 most recent reviews, and Red Bottle Bar & Cocktail Lounge and Ted's Place each answered 1 of 10. The median bar we read carries 130.5 reviews and a 4.5 rating, and the three most-reviewed bars carry 1,626, 634 and 608.

What to do about it

Pick a day each week, open your Google listing, and answer every new review on it: thank the good ones by name and detail, and answer a complaint in a sentence or two without arguing, with a way to reach you. Of everything in that exchange, the reply is the only part you write.

Some owners in this section already answer. Taco Pros - Oak Park answered 9 of its 10 most recent reviews, Spilt Milk 8 of 10, and Pete's Market, the bakery listing, 10 of 10. That last listing carries 4,741 reviews in total. If you run a bar, O'Sullivan's Public House answered 3 of 10; answering the next review that arrives on yours is where to start.

Restaurants

20 read · median 632 reviews · median rating 4.6

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Taco Pros - Oak Park9 of 1010914.4

Cafés

20 read · median 187 reviews · median rating 4.7

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Mulata Kitchen + Coffee1 of 105254.6

Coffee shops

20 read · median 137 reviews · median rating 4.8

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Spilt Milk8 of 104334.5
2Kribi Coffee Cafe & Roastery5 of 105174.5
3Mulata Kitchen + Coffee1 of 105254.6

Bars

20 read · median 130.5 reviews · median rating 4.5

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1O'Sullivan's Public House3 of 106344.4
2Red Bottle Bar & Cocktail Lounge1 of 106084.6
3Ted's Place1 of 103814.3

Bakeries

20 read · median 189 reviews · median rating 4.7

#BusinessAnsweredReviewsRating
1Pete's Market #12 - Oak Park I10 of 1047414.5
2Spilt Milk8 of 104334.5
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The other groups we read in Oak Park, IL

Same Oak Park search, different trades — 340 more businesses read across 6 groups.

Hair, nails & barbering

60 businesses read across 3 trades · every trade had someone answering

Spa & aesthetics

120 businesses read across 6 trades · every trade had someone answering

Fitness & wellness

40 businesses read across 2 trades · every trade had someone answering

Dental & orthodontics

40 businesses read across 2 trades · every trade had someone answering

Pets

60 businesses read across 3 trades · every trade had someone answering

Shops & studios

20 businesses read across 1 trade · every trade had someone answering

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What food & drink businesses around Oak Park, IL do with their reviews
TradeMedian reviewsBest answeredYou
Restaurants6329 of 10the audit fills this in
Cafés1871 of 10the audit fills this in
Coffee shops1378 of 10the audit fills this in
Bars130.53 of 10the audit fills this in
Bakeries18910 of 10the audit fills this in
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