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Ex-Chicagoan conquers Mexican food
NEW YORK — Rarely smiling or saying more than was necessary as he created a twisting column of chocolate ganache or turned peanut butter into powder, Alex Stupak was an intense figure in Grant Achatz's intense kitchen as Alinea's opening pastry...
Tags: Tacos, West Village, Mexican Food, Foods and Beverages, Pistachios
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Four stars for Next's Vegan menu
Chicago has seen vegetarian restaurants before, and vegetable menus before, but nothing, not even the vegetable tasting menus that Charlie Trotter offered during his long career, compares to the Vegan menu currently featured at Next. In more than 20...
Tags: Mushrooms, Diets and Dieting, Potatoes, Dining and Drinking, Kale
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Memoir blends food and comics
The hardest thing to accept about Lucy Knisley's "Relish: My Life in the Kitchen," the lovely new graphic food memoir from the former Chicago cartoonist, is that Knisley grew up to be a cartoonist at all. In the early pages, we see an adolescent, big-...
Tags: Recipes, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dining and Drinking
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Band of Bohemia brewpub in the works for Ravenswood
RedEyeThe Ravenswood 'hood, already home to a craft beer bar, Fountainhead, and a brewery, Begyle, could see the arrival of even more beer courtesy of a brewpub called Band of Bohemia. Led by a team that includes an Alinea sommelier, Craig Sindelar, and a...Tags: Ameya Pawar, Lifestyle and Leisure, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Michelin Group
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Bring on brunch
Though Sunday brunch is a year-round option, warm and sunny weather is what brings out the crowds. I can attest to that, having spent most of the last 10 fairly miserable (weatherwise) weekends hitting one brunch after another; I don't think I found a...
Tags: Cheddar Cheese, Foods and Beverages, Dining and Drinking, Michelin Group, The Bristol
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'World's 50 Best' drops Alinea to 15th; El Celler de Can Roca is numero uno
Tribune criticFor the first time in three years, there’s a new restaurant on top of the world. In a mild upset, El Celler de Can Roca, in Girona, Spain, took top honors at Restaurant Magazine’s annual “World’s 50 Best Restaurants" awards...Tags: River North, Restaurants, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Chicago Restaurants
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50 Best Restaurants: The U.S. did better than you think, and where Thomas Keller ate after
An American restaurant may not have walked off with the top spot on this year's World's 50 Best Restaurants list awards, which was sponsored by San Pellegrino and held in London on Sunday night, but the United States tied with France for most...
Tags: Italy, Peru, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants, France
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At Trois Mec, diners must buy tickets upfront
Last month, the manager of the Beverly Hills restaurant Red Medicine shamed diners who didn't turn up for their Saturday night reservations by calling them out on Twitter. "I hope you enjoyed your GF's Bday and the flowers that you didn't bring when you...
Tags: Media Industry, Entertainment, Services and Shopping, Dining and Drinking, Urasawa
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Jonathan Gold | Restaurant review: On the M.A.K.E. for raw vegan cuisine
Los Angeles Times Restaurant CriticIf you are the kind of diner who gets hung up on first impressions, M.A.K.E., Matthew Kenney's raw-vegan restaurant in Santa Monica Place, may not be for you. It is not just on the dining deck but actually in the mall's food court, so to get to it you...Tags: Tacos, Cheese Corn, Diets and Dieting, Foods and Beverages, Pasta
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Fat Rice: Pedigree not required
Adrienne Lo and Abraham Conlon, the proprietors of the hugely popular new Chinese-Portuguese restaurant Fat Rice in Logan Square, are interesting looking, the kind of couple you see around town and wonder what their deal is. I've seen them around for...
Tags: Italy, West Hartford, Trips and Vacations, Wrigleyville, Sausages
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Phil Vettel: Four stars for Grace
Given chef Curtis Duffy's curriculum vitae — his work at Alinea, the two Michelin stars awarded to Avenues restaurant on Duffy's watch — there really wasn't any question whether Grace, Duffy's first solo effort, would be good. Just how good....
Tags: Cheese Corn, Popcorn, Potatoes, Wines, Dining and Drinking
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Fourteen divided by two
An entirely new kind of South Florida restaurant has opened its doors in Delray Beach. With just 18 seats inside and another eight on the patio, the Grove is the type of personal, chef-driven restaurant you'd expect to find on a trip to Napa Valley....
Tags: Onions, Potatoes, Foods and Beverages, Grant Achatz, Wines
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