chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Nick and Eddie
Do great restaurants ever really die? It's a good question to ask when at Nick and Eddie, Minneapolis’s newest big-buzz restaurant.
01.15.08
- Keywords
- dara moskowitz grumdahl,
- first taste,
- minneapolis
chefs + restaurants
Colin and the Chocolate Factory
Ever wonder why no one you know manufactures chocolate from raw cocoa beans? Right—neither had I until I spent an afternoon with 22-year-old Colin Gasko.
01.15.08
- Keywords
- chefs,
- ingredients,
- dara moskowitz grumdahl,
- minneapolis
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Txori
Really, the only problem with Txori, a new tapas bar in downtown Seattle, is that the floor is too clean.
01.08.08
- Keywords
- matthew amster-burton,
- first taste,
- tapas,
- seattle
chefs + restaurants
The Lanky One
It's nice to know you can still stumble on Cal-Mex dishes that haven't yet
reached the popular consciousness.
01.04.08
- Keywords
- robert sietsema,
- restaurants,
- mexican,
- california
chefs + restaurants
Forgotten Cuisines of America, Part 3
Silicon Valley is a hotbed of up-to-the-minute Chinese restaurants, usually
found in grandiose shopping malls around Cupertino and Sunnyvale.
12.21.07
- Keywords
- restaurants,
- robert sietsema,
- forgotten cuisines,
- chinese,
- california
chefs + restaurants
Spanish Foodies
There is possibly no better way to stir up a bunch of Spanish foodies than
to get them started on the Michelin guide.
12.13.07
- Keywords
- lisa abend,
- spain,
- restaurant notes
chefs + restaurants
Anthony Bourdain: No Hesitations
Anthony Bourdain spilled plenty of beans during a standing-room-only signing for his new book, No Reservations. But the biggest news? He has quit smoking.
12.07.07
- Keywords
- chefs,
- anthony bourdain,
- books,
- behind the scenes,
- louisa chu
chefs + restaurants
Sad News
The wine world lost a giant today. Alois Kracher, just 48 years old, died of pancreatic cancer this morning.
12.05.07
- Keywords
- james rodewald,
- wine,
- austria
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Bastide
Bastide's meal was unfolding like a delicious dream. An oyster shooter—the essence of the sea—followed by a ceviche of bay scallops, laid out on the plate like an opening orchid.
12.05.07
- Keywords
- first taste,
- restaurants,
- los angeles,
- ruth reichl
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Rockpool (fish)
High-profile ponytailed chef Neil Perry closed his Sydney restaurant Rockpool, which had existed since 1989, did a breakneck two-week makeover and reopened as Rockpool (fish).
12.03.07
- Keywords
- first taste,
- australia,
- sydney,
- travel,
- seafood