Three visits hardly seem like enough to come to any definitive conclusion, yet they represent a starting point in evaluating a place that is already at the pinnacle (however shakily) of our dining scene…
Category Archive: Tidbits
Pitting months and months of Kyōten omakases against each other is starting to become a complicated task…
It might be best to think of this experience as the “B-side” of Maxwells Trading…
With the arrival of the year’s hottest month, omakase starts to sound particularly enticing…
Can lightning strike twice? Can the team at Warlord totally reinvent its tasting menu without losing what made those first two meals so special?
If Cellar Door surprises and delights me as it did back in April, I can only affirm that the concept is doing something really special…
The arrival of summer marks one of the most interesting chapters in Kyōten’s yearly work…
I was so impressed by my first meal at Enemy that I knew I had to rush back…
Another month, another visit to Chicago’s idiosyncratic temple of omakase…
How does the menu here change month to month? How does the perception of quality and value, when one no longer approaches Phan’s work with the romanticism of a “special occasion” splurge, change with it?