A tale of two dinners.
Now that all the magazines and food guides have finally gotten around to finishing their awards (did you guys have something better to do for the first three fucking months…
Now that all the magazines and food guides have finally gotten around to finishing their awards (did you guys have something better to do for the first three fucking months…
Most meals, with enough anticipation and fanfare, cannot possibly live up to expectations. This was not one of those meals. I didn’t take pictures because this food has been so…
Anthony Bourdain will never read this, but I feel it entirely appropriate to name-check the guy since the tao of Tony has definitely helped inform my desire to go to…
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…
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,…
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…
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…