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Ex-Chicagoan conquers Mexican food
NEW YORK — Rarely smiling or saying more than was necessary as he created a twisting column of chocolate ganache or turned peanut butter into powder, Alex Stupak was an intense figure in Grant Achatz's intense kitchen as Alinea's opening pastry...
Tags: Rick Bayless, The New York Times, Dining and Drinking, Michelin Group, Restaurants
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Memoir blends food and comics
The hardest thing to accept about Lucy Knisley's "Relish: My Life in the Kitchen," the lovely new graphic food memoir from the former Chicago cartoonist, is that Knisley grew up to be a cartoonist at all. In the early pages, we see an adolescent, big-...
Tags: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Recipes
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Four stars for Next's Vegan menu
Chicago has seen vegetarian restaurants before, and vegetable menus before, but nothing, not even the vegetable tasting menus that Charlie Trotter offered during his long career, compares to the Vegan menu currently featured at Next. In more than 20...
Tags: Diets and Dieting, White Asparagus, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Mushrooms, Baked Potatoes
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Band of Bohemia brewpub in the works for Ravenswood
RedEyeThe Ravenswood 'hood, already home to a craft beer bar, Fountainhead, and a brewery, Begyle, could see the arrival of even more beer courtesy of a brewpub called Band of Bohemia. Led by a team that includes an Alinea sommelier, Craig Sindelar, and a...Tags: Ameya Pawar, Dining and Drinking, Michelin Group, Bars and Clubs, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Bring on brunch
Though Sunday brunch is a year-round option, warm and sunny weather is what brings out the crowds. I can attest to that, having spent most of the last 10 fairly miserable (weatherwise) weekends hitting one brunch after another; I don't think I found a...
Tags: Mother's Day, Poached Eggs, Michelin Group, Breads, Restaurants
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'World's 50 Best' drops Alinea to 15th; El Celler de Can Roca is numero uno
Tribune criticFor the first time in three years, there’s a new restaurant on top of the world. In a mild upset, El Celler de Can Roca, in Girona, Spain, took top honors at Restaurant Magazine’s annual “World’s 50 Best Restaurants" awards...Tags: River North, Chicago Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Lifestyle and Leisure
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50 Best Restaurants: The U.S. did better than you think, and where Thomas Keller ate after
An American restaurant may not have walked off with the top spot on this year's World's 50 Best Restaurants list awards, which was sponsored by San Pellegrino and held in London on Sunday night, but the United States tied with France for most...
Tags: France, Dining and Drinking, Italy, Restaurants, Peru
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At Trois Mec, diners must buy tickets upfront
Last month, the manager of the Beverly Hills restaurant Red Medicine shamed diners who didn't turn up for their Saturday night reservations by calling them out on Twitter. "I hope you enjoyed your GF's Bday and the flowers that you didn't bring when you...
Tags: The Aviary, Twitter, Inc., LudoBites, Mustard, Services and Shopping
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Fat Rice: Pedigree not required
Adrienne Lo and Abraham Conlon, the proprietors of the hugely popular new Chinese-Portuguese restaurant Fat Rice in Logan Square, are interesting looking, the kind of couple you see around town and wonder what their deal is. I've seen them around for...
Tags: Travel, Whole Foods Market, Dining and Drinking, Parks and Recreation (tv program), Restaurants
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Phil Vettel: Four stars for Grace
Given chef Curtis Duffy's curriculum vitae — his work at Alinea, the two Michelin stars awarded to Avenues restaurant on Duffy's watch — there really wasn't any question whether Grace, Duffy's first solo effort, would be good. Just how good....
Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Dining and Drinking, Cheese Corn, Michelin Group, Restaurants
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Fourteen divided by two
An entirely new kind of South Florida restaurant has opened its doors in Delray Beach. With just 18 seats inside and another eight on the patio, the Grove is the type of personal, chef-driven restaurant you'd expect to find on a trip to Napa Valley....
Tags: Steaks, Chocolate Cake, Dining and Drinking, Ice Cream, Salads
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U. of C. freshman treats fellow students to gourmet dining
For RedEyeUniversity of Chicago freshman and "tentative" economics major Robert Lipman has the same time and financial constraints as any other college student attending a demanding university, but he still finds time to cook gourmet-style meals for his fellow...Tags: Inception (movie), University of Oxford, Dining and Drinking, University of Chicago, Education
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