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Foo Fighters food fight
Reality CheckIt's the night before Thanksgiving, and I'm watching Top Chef by myself this week. (Mary went home for T-Day. She'll pitch in later.)I've been looking forward to this episode since last week's teaser. This week's episode gets an A --......Tags: Dining and Drinking, Top Chef (tv program), Bacon, Arts and Culture, Potatoes
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The two Comments of the Week
Dining@LargeSometimes something needs to be said and it's nice when one of you says it so eloquently, more eloquently than I could have said it. EL Paul W and Donny B, you are technically correct about Baltimore's food traditions of......Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, H.L. Mencken, Dining and Drinking, Alcoholic Beverages, Liver
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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: Japan, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Peanuts
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Phil Vettel reviews Next
I visited Next looking for greatness, and I found it.
Next, the sequel restaurant from Grant Achatz of Alinea, is all of 19 days old, but it hums with the grace and confidence of a veteran. Which isn't completely surprising; Achatz, partner Nick Kokonas,...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, John Malkovich, Arts and Culture, Services and Shopping
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From Paris to sizzling Bangkok
![Next, the shape-shifting restaurant by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas (the principals at world-famous Alinea), dazzled diners with its inaugural "Paris 1906" menu. For an encore, the kitchen went about as far afield as possible. To Bangkok, in fact.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-08/64215393-24175102.jpg "Next, the shape-shifting restaurant by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas (the principals at world-famous Alinea), dazzled diners with its inaugural "Paris 1906\" menu. For an encore, the kitchen went about as far afield as possible. To Bangkok, in fact.")
Next, the shape-shifting restaurant by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas (the principals at world-famous Alinea), dazzled diners with its inaugural "Paris 1906" menu. For an encore, the kitchen went about as far afield as possible. To Bangkok, in fact.
"We...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Arun's, Human Interest, Soups
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Phil Vettel reviews the Sicily menu at Next
For its latest menu, Next restaurant invested in a special piece of cooking equipment. A Weber kettle grill. Standing alongside the recirculating thermal circulators, Anti-Griddles, Sonicpreps and other high-tech gizmos that populate Next's high-tech...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Human Interest, Tomatoes, Zucchini
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Dale Levitski's Frog N Snail
Dale Levitski's career arc is like that of most top chefs. In reverse.
After running a couple of modest Chicago restaurants, Levitski found himself thrust into the spotlight as the surprise pick to succeed Grant Achatz at four-star Trio, and, just as...Tags: Sandwiches, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Salads, Chicago Restaurants
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Strategies for getting into super-hot Next
The good news is that Next, the sequel restaurant by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas, is living up to its sky-high expectations. The bad is that it has been excruciatingly difficult to get into this restaurant in its first few weeks. Here are the answers...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Services and Shopping, Restaurants, Next (restaurant)
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Dinner and a movie
Phil VettelMan, I wish I'd gotten this assignment two years ago. The task of matching Oscar-nominated films to appropriate restaurants is challenge enough, but it's even harder these days, thanks to the Academy's esteem-building decision to expand the number of...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Movies, The Kids Are All Right (movie), Winter's Bone (movie), The Fighter (movie)
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Next's tickets system expands
Alinea, Chicago's most acclaimed restaurant, has used Open Table in the past to manage — though not take — reservations, but co-owner Nick Kokonas isn't shy about anticipating and working toward the service's demise. Kokonas, partners with...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, The Rolling Stones (music group), Chicago Restaurants, Avec
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Fanciful food swap
Two of the most acclaimed chefs in the nation have embarked on an extraordinary, unprecedented switcheroo. By the time you read this, Grant Achatz of Alinea will have completed a five-night stretch of cooking his food at Eleven Madison Park in New York....
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Chicago Restaurants, Restaurants, The Aviary
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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: Dining and Drinking, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Art Smith, Michael Jordan, Graham Elliot
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