This is the No. 1 flower shop in Chicago, according to Time Out

At Time Out, we refresh our rankings often, because loving Chicago doesn’t mean staying loyal to the same old favorites out of habit. This month, we revisited our guide to the city’s top 24 florists and decided it was time for a gentle but decisive shake-up.

Along with adding a few new flower shops that are keeping Chicago colorful, fragrant and on its aesthetic A-game, we reshuffled the rankings to reflect recent developments and the simple truth that cities—like tastes, hairstyles and what we’re willing to pay for a bouquet—are always changing. As a result of our latest reporting, Humboldt Park's Nerine has officially claimed the number one spot as the best florist in Chicago.

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Co-founders Liz Topp and Sinéad Cleary launched Nerine to celebrate the meeting point of fresh blooms and sculptural artistry. Every bouquet captures a fleeting seasonal mood and an unmistakable creative point of view—the floral equivalent of walking into a room and immediately trusting the host’s taste in music. Since opening their physical shop on Division Street in early 2025, they’ve welcomed flower lovers into their world with curated arrangements and hands-on workshops that make you briefly consider a career change.

In determining our rankings, we weighed floral adventurousness and shop ambiance against a more elusive metric: the thrill of discovering you’ve walked into a place that also sells dangerously covetable home goods (hello, magnetic bud vase), delightfully niche offerings like “the elopement special” and merch you didn’t come for but will absolutely leave with.

The next time you’re hunting for a celebratory bouquet—whether it’s for a milestone moment or simply because Thursday felt unbearably long—shop local at Nerine or explore the other essential spots on our list of Chicago’s 24 best florists. Oh, and just in time for Valentine’s Day, Nerine is offering a limited-edition bouquet: their take on lush, romantic but decidedly contemporary romance. It features their namesake nerine lilies alongside soft, sculptural ingredients like roses, sweet pea, calla lilies and anthurium, for $75—proof that love can, in fact, be arranged in advance.