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First Taste: Avenues
This restaurant’s meticulously crafted dishes look and feel space age, but their balanced flavors make sense in the most classic way.
09.30.08
- Keywords
- francis lam,
- first taste,
- chicago,
- moleular gastronomy,
- curtis duffy
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Urban Belly
White-tablecloth dining comes down to street-food form, and the stunning results speak for themselves.
09.29.08
- Keywords
- david tamarkin,
- first taste,
- chicago,
- asian,
- bill kim
magazine
A Restaurant That’s Really This Good
Is Alinea truly the best restaurant in America? The shock and awe on diners’ faces seem to say it all.
October 2008
- Keywords
- francis lam,
- grant achatz,
- chicago,
- molecular gastronomy,
- restaurants
chefs + restaurants
Fine Dining at the Farmers Market
Farm-to-table restaurants face stiff competition from the very market where they get their produce.
08.08.08
- Keywords
- david tamarkin,
- restaurant notes,
- produce,
- chicago,
- farm-to-table
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: graham elliot
It’s hard to notice anything else when there’s a root beer–glazed pork chop topped with corn nuts and watermelon sitting in front of you.
07.07.08
- Keywords
- first taste,
- david tamarkin,
- chicago,
- graham elliot bowles
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Mado
In true minimalist fashion, most of the dishes are made with three or fewer ingredients, but they taste sublime.
06.13.08
- Keywords
- first taste,
- david tamarkin,
- chicago,
- rob levitt,
- allison levitt
food + cooking
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s an Italian Beef
A paean to Chicago street eats.
06.06.08
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- john t. edge,
- chicago,
- sandwiches,
- meat
chefs + restaurants
The Vegas-ization of Chicago
At the rate non-Chicago chefs are opening satellite restaurants here, pretty soon we’re going to look like Las Vegas.
05.29.08
- Keywords
- restaurant notes,
- david tamarkin,
- chicago,
- david burke,
- marcus samuelsson
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: L20
Laurent Gras has the skill and, perhaps more importantly, the judgment to find a near-perfect meeting ground of pristine product and chefly invention.
05.22.08
- Keywords
- first taste,
- john willoughby,
- chicago,
- laurent gras,
- molecular gastronomy
chefs + restaurants
The Check Please Effect
How a local television show is making (and breaking) the restaurant business.
05.08.08
- Keywords
- restaurant notes,
- david tamarkin,
- chicago,
- culinary culture,
- middle eastern
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