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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: Next (restaurant), Dining and Drinking, The Aviary, Lifestyle and Leisure, Marketing
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Tipping points
In her 38 years in the restaurant business, server Linda Doherty has come up with a few theories: It's easier to memorize orders instead of writing them down. Diners like it when you joke around.
And, while you can never predict this exactly, there are...Tags: Next (restaurant), Dining and Drinking, Science and Technology, Lifestyle and Leisure, Marketing
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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, Next (restaurant), Grant Achatz, Dining and Drinking, Chicago Restaurants
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At Katsu, a quarter century of sushi as theater
Of the few remaining ways to get your mind blown nowadays, my preferred manner of inserting the TNT is to sit three feet away from Katsu Imamura.
The fuse lit once appetizer plates were cleared, when Katsu asked: "Are you ready for sushi now?"
And...Tags: Shrimp, Foods and Beverages, Dining and Drinking, Arts and Culture, Sushi and Sashimi
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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: National Basketball Association, Chicago Hotels, Entertainment Events, Manhattan (New York City), Charlie Trotter
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Chicken, waffles: Together like birds of a feather
When I lived in Los Angeles, I visited Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles twice a month. Despite my fondness for the restaurant, I don't remember what the place looked like. A Google search jogged my memory: It resembled a Denny's, all vinyl booths...Tags: Google Inc., Chicken and Waffles, Foods and Beverages, Kevin Pang, Dining and Drinking
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Check It Out: Taste others' lives with kitchen memoirs
Cookbook writing is in its heyday and writing about food and cooking and families has never been more popular. Books such as "Julia and Julia: 365 Days, 534 Recipes and 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen" have even been made into mainstream movies. Cooking and food...Tags: Pies and Tarts, Manhattan (New York City), Charlie Trotter, Dining and Drinking, Arts and Culture
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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: Julia Child, Tru, Graham Elliot, Next (restaurant), Dining and Drinking
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From Bayless in 'Cascabel' to Achatz at Next, all the tables a stage
Most Chicago actors do not bring their own Bunsen burners to the rehearsal room. But then, Rick Bayless — the creator of the phenomenally popular Chicago restaurants Topolobampo and Frontera Grill and a chef who embraced celebrity long before it...Tags: Next (restaurant), Dining and Drinking, Arts and Culture, Celebrities, Lifestyle and Leisure
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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: Chicago Hotels, Graham Elliot, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Ria, Hotels and Accommodations
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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...Tags: Graham Elliot, Next (restaurant), Grant Achatz, Charlie Trotter, Dining and Drinking
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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.
"We...Tags: International Travel, Coconut, Bangkok (Thailand), Next (restaurant), Foods and Beverages
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