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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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