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Understanding TZUCO

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Sure, Galit has gotten plenty of positive press, Cabra’s Peruvian fare is fantastic, and Gaijin promises to shift the paradigm for Japanese food in the city, but Tzuco stands as Chicago’s hottest opening of the year…

Posted on November 26, 2019May 5, 2022 8 Comments

Understanding BAVETTE’S

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Bavette’s Bar & Boeuf excels in Chicago’s crowded steakhouse scene by consciously subverting so many of the nasty tropes that have plagued this genre of restaurants nationwide. There is little glitz and even less glamour…

Posted on November 18, 2019May 5, 2022 17 Comments

Understanding ALINEA

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It has taken you quite some time to appreciate Alinea, and, in many ways, it still confounds you as a restaurant. You will admit that you long harbored a slight grudge against the establishment…

Posted on November 7, 2019May 5, 2022 14 Comments

Understanding CLAUDIA

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CLAUDIA offers Chicago’s newest tasting menu, and, at $185 for a 10-course menu, the restaurant is clearly competing with “big dogs” like Smyth and Acadia.

Posted on October 31, 2019May 5, 2022 2 Comments

A Dramaturgical Approach to Restaurant Reviews

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If critics of the screen and stage can single out individual actors for praise and criticism, then why can’t restaurant critics?

Posted on October 28, 2019May 5, 2022 4 Comments

Making Sense of Michelin

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I used to be a star-chaser like you. That is, drawn to stellar bodies of the bibendous kind…

Posted on October 24, 2019May 5, 2022 3 Comments

Welcome

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I sit here now, a rain-speckled afternoon in the third week of October, reflecting on just why I chose to develop this online journal…

Posted on October 21, 2019May 5, 2022 1 Comment

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