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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: Salt, Phil Vettel, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Pistachios, CLTV
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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: Urban Belly, Whole Foods Market, Marketing, Salads, Dining and Drinking
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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: Phil Vettel, Ann Sather, Michelin Group, Dining and Drinking, L2O
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Review: Alain's
UPDATE: An eviction notice was spotted on Alain's door the week of Sept. 24 and calls to the restaurant have not been answered. Review: Alain's 1355 S. Michigan Ave. 312-922-1186 Rating: 2 (out of 4) Give it some time What happens when a Cameroon-...
Tags: Wines, Potatoes, South Loop, Israel Idonije, Michigan Avenue
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Charlie Trotter gets ready to hang it up
Charlie Trotter says he first thought of closing his namesake restaurant after his plane sat on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. “I realized really how fragile the world is,” he reflects. “I love what...
Tags: Salt, Urban Belly, Phil Vettel, The New York Times, Mindy's HotChocolate
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All the kitchen's a stage: Why Chicago breeds great restaurants and theater companies
Over the past 25 years or so, two surging art forms have elevated cultural Chicago on the global stage: theater and fine dining. Is this coincidence or correlation? I mean no disrespect to dancers, musicians or rockers, nor architects, painters, poets or...
Tags: Nelson Algren, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Celebrities, Artists
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Our work to cover Charlie Trotter's retirement
Even on a typical night in Charlie Trotter’s dining room, if a single detail was off, there were consequences. To hear it from some of the cooks and wait staff who worked in his venerable Lincoln Park restaurant, any such misstep could set off...
Tags: Chicago Restaurants, Navy Pier, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants
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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: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Graham Elliot, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Volt
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Chicago nabs two five-star hotels, three restaurants from Forbes Travel Guide
Tribune newspapersTwo Chicago hotels and three restaurants have been awarded the top five-star designation in the annual Forbes Travel Guide ratings. The honored hotels were the Four Seasons and The Peninsula, and the restaurants were Alinea, Charlie Trotter's and L2O....Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Sixteen, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Travel, Graham Elliot
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Four stars for Charlie Trotter's
![Two weeks ago, Charlie Trotter began his 25th year of business, a superlative achievement by any reckoning. He has won every culinary award worth pursuing, his restaurant continues to hum with business, and he's more or less a newlywed, having married Rochelle Smith — "a girl so nice I married her twice," Trotter said, referring to their months-apart beach ceremonies in the Maldives and on the Wilmette lakefront — in February of last year.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-09/64564633-08075608.jpg "Two weeks ago, Charlie Trotter began his 25th year of business, a superlative achievement by any reckoning. He has won every culinary award worth pursuing, his restaurant continues to hum with business, and he's more or less a newlywed, having married Rochelle Smith — "a girl so nice I married her twice,\" Trotter said, referring to their months-apart beach ceremonies in the Maldives and on the Wilmette lakefront — in February of last year.")
Two weeks ago, Charlie Trotter began his 25th year of business, a superlative achievement by any reckoning. He has won every culinary award worth pursuing, his restaurant continues to hum with business, and he's more or less a newlywed, having married...Tags: CLTV, Human Interest, WGN, Grant Achatz, Michelin Group
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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: CLTV, Mushrooms, Grant Achatz, Next (restaurant), Lifestyle and Leisure
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The Charlie Trotter launch pad
![Charlie Trotter was kidding when he cracked, "I thought it was a law in Chicago that you couldn't open a restaurant without working here first," but the truth is that one could assemble a formidable culinary all-star team consisting solely of chefs who passed through Trotter's demanding kitchen.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-09/64564639-07215607.jpg "Charlie Trotter was kidding when he cracked, "I thought it was a law in Chicago that you couldn't open a restaurant without working here first,\" but the truth is that one could assemble a formidable culinary all-star team consisting solely of chefs who passed through Trotter's demanding kitchen.")
Charlie Trotter was kidding when he cracked, "I thought it was a law in Chicago that you couldn't open a restaurant without working here first," but the truth is that one could assemble a formidable culinary all-star team consisting solely of chefs who...Tags: Schwa, Chicago Restaurants, Grant Achatz, Graham Elliot, Next (restaurant)
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Nov 16, 2011
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Mar 1, 2012
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