More than a year after my last visit to Valhalla, I now ask: was I right to have faith, or did I jump the gun?
Contemporary American
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…
It might be best to think of this experience as the “B-side” of Maxwells Trading…
With Nic + Junior’s listing among the hottest restaurants in Chicago, it would appear the concept is finally ready for primetime…
With Maxwells Trading’s popularity at a peak, my present format seems well-suited to writing some kind of evaluation…
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…
I was so impressed by my first meal at Enemy that I knew I had to rush back…
Mi Tocaya is of that rare caliber: the kind of place whose work, on both sides of the hedonistic/intellectual spectrum, I find impossible to shake.
Does Elske live up to the lofty status I have assigned it in my imagination?