chefs + restaurants

First Taste: The Pit

The Pit, a new restaurant that showcases the craft of pitmaster Ed Mitchell, raises the question: Is barbecue ready for its white-tablecloth moment?
03.31.08
chefs + restaurants

First Taste: Persephone

Sharing the same open room as a fashion boutique, Persephone is a wi-fi-wired art space/bar/restaurant with a DJ booth, video games, and an eco-forward ethos.
03.31.08
chefs + restaurants

The Gourmet Q + A: Grant Achatz and Heston Blumenthal

The chefs discuss the process of writing their forthcoming cookbooks, the audiences they hope to reach, and the term “molecular gastronomy.”
03.24.08
chefs + restaurants

First Taste: Sixteen

Sixteen occupies Chicago’s new Trump International Hotel and Tower, and the view is exhilarating. But the food wasn’t meant to be the main attraction.
03.20.08
chefs + restaurants

First Taste: City House

I just had a damn fine dinner at City House, the kind of dinner that makes you believe that dining after dark in Nashville has a bright future.
03.10.08
chefs + restaurants

First Taste: Momofuku Ko

Halfway through dinner at the new Momofuku Ko it hits you: You will never eat dinner here again. “No phone. No favorites. No exceptions,” vows David Chang.
03.04.08
chefs + restaurants

First Taste: Sergi Arola Gastro

This is the first restaurant that the Adrià-trained rocker-turned-chef has actually owned, and it’s very, very hot.
02.28.08
chefs + restaurants

First Taste: LAMILL Coffee Boutique

On paper, LAMILL Coffee Boutique sounds like a send-up of Los Angeles chic as imagined by a Saturday Night Live sketch writer. The truth is, the vibe is full-on enthusiastic coffee geek....
02.20.08
chefs + restaurants

First Taste: Let’s Be Frank

With their virtuous heritage, the juicy, snappy, flavorful hot dogs at Let’s Be Frank have the added benefit of being very low-guilt.
02.19.08
chefs + restaurants

First Re-taste: HotChocolate

An old haunt still offers some of the best pastry around—if the morning hordes haven’t snapped it up.
02.14.08
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