Chicago

Consider the historic Fulton Market neighborhood, once home to industrial warehouses but now bustling with hip coffee shops, bars, restaurants, live music, indie boutiques, design studios, and tech companies. Named for Robert Fulton, an American engineer who developed the first commercially successful steamboat, this 74-acre district is now one of the city’s preeminent live-work neighborhoods with a dizzying array of wineries, breweries, bakeries, and restaurants, including some founded by Chicago’s most acclaimed chefs.

Your clients are guaranteed white-glove treatment as they savor a curated selection of signature dishes at each restaurant visited here, which may include Rose Mary, owned by Chef Joe Flamm, winner of “Top Chef’’ season 15, that serves Italian fare with Croatian influences; Lyra, which spotlights Greek fare made with local ingredients, with many dishes finished over charcoal and wood-burning grills; and Nisos Prime, a sophisticated steakhouse with Mediterranean flair that serves premium steaks, house-made pastas, and lofty seafood towers.

Or let clients experience the ultimate deep-dish pizza extravaganza that takes them to three of the city’s landmark pizzerias that cemented the city’s iconic style of pie. These restaurants are notorious for long lines and long waits for these hefty pizzas to finish baking in the oven. But when you put your clients in our hands, there’s never a delay. Instead, they’re escorted to the best tables immediately with the pizzas set before them in 10 minutes, not the usual 45 minutes. Among the institutions they may visit are Gino’s East, with its famous graffiti-covered walls and celebrity clientele; Pizzeria Uno on Ohio Street that claims to be the originator of the deep-dish pizza; Labiola, whose focaccia-style dough lined with mozzarella guarantees a crispy exterior and fluffy interior; and Lou Malnati’s on Wells Street with its butter crust pizza that’s covered completely with a juicy sausage patty. It makes for the rare opportunity to not only compare and contrast the best pizzas that Chicago offers in one convenient experience, but to see the shopping mecca known as Magnificent Mile.

On either Lip Smacking tour, an optional beverage package is available that provides a specialty cocktail at each venue. The price is all-inclusive, meaning that all gratuities and taxes are already conveniently taken care of before the culinary experience concludes.