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Hole Foods
Cupcakes are cool. But doughnuts are hot.
A handful of new and relatively new shops are producing the kind of high-quality, limited-quantity, chef-driven doughnuts that truly can be called artisanal products.
Much as cupcake specialists revolutionized...Tags: Gilt Bar, Pistachios, Restaurants, Bacon, The Purple Pig
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Charlie Trotter's pressure cooker
Everyone knows Charlie Trotter as the chef of Charlie Trotter's. It's his name, his restaurant, and he's the boss. But that title “chef” has many meanings, and Trotter has embodied just about all of them during his 25 years at Charlie Trotter'...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Tru, Fava Beans, Game, Breads
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Scaling the heights
Can a four-star meal begin with fried smelts and end with a Butterfinger bar? My last dinner at Sixteen says yes. These are uncertain times for four-star dining in Chicago. Since last September, four previous top-rated restaurants have closed up shop...
Tags: Phil Vettel, Chicago Hotels, Lifestyle and Leisure, Mushrooms, Chicago Tribune Columnists
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Oh, the places they didn't go
When Charlie Trotter announced, just past the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day, that he would be closing his eponymous Chicago restaurant at the end of August, quite a few people vowed to get to Charlie Trotter's, one last time or even for the very...Tags: Volt, Julia Child, Tru, Graham Elliot, Stephanie Izard
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'03 lawsuit challenged work conditions
There are so many opportunities here of rare, rich experiences which I need to thank Chef Trotter for. From the housewives, doctors, and others who come to work as guest chefs to famous chefs like Tetsuya, Toque and Alain Ducasse. I've always learned...
Tags: Yusho, Judges, Graham Elliot, Trips and Vacations, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Charlie Trotter preaches excellence to the extreme
Graham Elliot was an aspiring young cook in the late '90s carrying steaks to a party of 20 in the Charlie Trotter's Studio Kitchen when the restaurant's brilliant, mercurial owner stopped him in the hallway and grabbed one of the pieces of meat. "He...
Tags: Beverly Kim, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Tomatoes, Urban Belly, Jupiter
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Ria chef gets it right
Taste, as a jazz musician once noted, is manifested in the notes one declines to play. In that regard, Danny Grant is a taste master.
The original chef de cuisine and now executive chef at Ria, the magnificent dining room within the Elysian hotel and...Tags: Potatoes, Tru, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Entertainment
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Celebrating the tastes of Japanese street food
![Matthias Merges worked at Charlie Trotter's for 14-odd years, and he was <i>the</i> man for most of them, serving as chef de cuisine, corporate chef and finally director of operations. "He was the glue to that place," one restaurateur says, admiringly.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-03/68464944-01084853.jpg "Matthias Merges worked at Charlie Trotter's for 14-odd years, and he was <i>the</i> man for most of them, serving as chef de cuisine, corporate chef and finally director of operations. "He was the glue to that place,\" one restaurateur says, admiringly.")
Matthias Merges worked at Charlie Trotter's for 14-odd years, and he was the man for most of them, serving as chef de cuisine, corporate chef and finally director of operations. "He was the glue to that place," one restaurateur says, admiringly.
That...Tags: Restaurants, Grant Achatz, Peanuts, Japan, Next (restaurant)
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A final meal at Charlie Trotter's
It was a strange feeling, emerging from a car at 816 W. Armitage Ave., knowing I would never do so again.
Charlie Trotter will serve his last meal Friday, the end of an illustrious 25-year run that has seen the chef and restaurant earn virtually every...Tags: New Year's Day, Restaurants, Charlie Trotter, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking
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Carbo-loading
As I exited Balena a week or so ago, a passing stranger stopped me.
"Good restaurant?" he asked, jerking his head toward the door. I nodded enthusiastically.
"Great pizzas," I said.
And in that split-second, I fear I gave Balena, which opened two...Tags: Ice Cream, Pistachios, Foods and Beverages, Salt, Phil Vettel
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Belly up
OK, Bill Kim, owner (with his wife, Yvonne Cadiz Kim) of Urban Belly, Belly Shack and now your latest, 6-week-old BellyQ: What's with all the bellies? "Life starts from the belly, from the mother's womb," says Kim. "Everything starts from there, so it'...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Restaurants, Urban Belly, Marketing, Salads
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Let's break out the old crystal ball
Time once again for my annual exercise in humiliation, as I try to predict the star recipients in the 2013 Michelin Chicago Guide, which hits bookstores Wednesday. This is the third year that Michelin has published a Chicago guide, and if there's one...
Tags: Schwa, Tru, Dale Levitski, Perennial Virant, Acadia
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