LAST SUPPER: WON KIM
dThe Question: You have one meal left in your life. You can eat whatever your want. What’s your last supper? The Eater: Chef Won Kim (aka Stephen Kim, aka Revise…
Honorary Gluttons
Poutine tang at Leopold
May 27th, 1940 was a day of impossibly vivid colors at Dunkirk. The cool azure of the sky above contrasting grotesquely with the shock red blood of the soldiers who…
Get The Duck Outta Here!
There are just some days you feel like stuffing the shit out of your face and Sun Wah provides such a haven, where the Peking duck basically rapes your face,…
Super secretish pseudo-private dining with Sunday Dinner Club
The phrase ‘underground dinner club’ conjures images of smoke-filled gated mansions you need a password to access. A masked string quartet plays chamber music as a fiendishly grinning, impeccably dressed,…
The Girl, the Goat and the Glutton
Shortly after hearing that Top Chef: Chicago winner Stephanie Izard’s new joint, the highly anticipated Girl and the Goat, had opened, I rushed to get my reservation and still waited…
Frank’s Wild Years
Growing up, if someone had had the chutzpa to tell me I’d one day live within a 2 mile radius of not one, not two, but TWO gourmet hot dog…
18 Rounds at l2o – or – How I Spent my Second Mortgage on Anthony Bourdain’s Froggy Boyfriend
I can definitively say three things about Chef Laurent Gras after dropping the GNP of a depressed Caribbean country at l2o: he has what approaches a pathologically unhealthy fascination with…
Kuma’s Corner
I don’t often get too excited about burgers these days but when I heard what they were serving up at Kuma’s Corner my heart began to race. I heard story…