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Reservations please
Here's something you may not know about Open Table, the predominant online restaurant reservations system: When you book a table through the Open Table website, the restaurant is charged $1 per seated guest — so if you show up as a foursome, that'...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Lactose Intolerance, Science and Technology, Dining and Drinking
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Charlie Trotter's pressure cooker
Everyone knows Charlie Trotter as the chef of Charlie Trotter's. It's his name, his restaurant, and he's the boss. But that title “chef” has many meanings, and Trotter has embodied just about all of them during his 25 years at Charlie Trotter'...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, China, Dining and Drinking, Breads, Avenues
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'03 lawsuit challenged work conditions
There are so many opportunities here of rare, rich experiences which I need to thank Chef Trotter for. From the housewives, doctors, and others who come to work as guest chefs to famous chefs like Tetsuya, Toque and Alain Ducasse. I've always learned...
Tags: Justice System, Boka, Cook County Government, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Charlie Trotter preaches excellence to the extreme
Graham Elliot was an aspiring young cook in the late '90s carrying steaks to a party of 20 in the Charlie Trotter's Studio Kitchen when the restaurant's brilliant, mercurial owner stopped him in the hallway and grabbed one of the pieces of meat. "He...
Tags: Beverly Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Customs and Tradition, Urban Belly
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Ready, reserved
I have this problem. I made more New Year's Eve reservations than I can use. More than 100 of them, actually. Which is why, for the 12th straight year (and the 17th time in the past 19 years), I'll be giving them away to nimble-fingered readers who ask....
Tags: Appetizers, RPM Italian, Browntrout, Dining and Drinking, Tavernita
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Charlie Trotter gets ready to hang it up
Charlie Trotter says he first thought of closing his namesake restaurant after his plane sat on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. “I realized really how fragile the world is,” he reflects. “I love what...
Tags: LaGuardia Airport, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Urban Belly, September 11, 2001 Attacks, National Basketball Association
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The In Word & Deed cocktail
In Word & Deed cocktail: Billy Sunday is the newest high-end cocktail bar to grace Logan Square, opening in February to high praise for head mixologist Alex Bachman and chef Matthias Merges, who also owns Yusho.
The libations menu takes classic drinks...Tags: Limes, Billy Sunday, Egg Whites
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Restaurants to visit for Chicago Chef Week
Another month, another week of discounted dining. In January we had Chicago Restaurant Week; starting Sunday, and running through March 22, we have Chicago Chef Week, which will feature 75 restaurants offering three-course lunches for $22 and three-course...Tags: Slurping Turtle, Acadia, Salads, Foods and Beverages, Urban Belly
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My life of pie
Pies always made me nervous. Didn't matter if they were deep-dish or mile-high. And you could call them whatever: quiche, tart or galette. It's the crust and the making of it that always stopped me cold. I would avoid recipes calling for pie dough, or I'd...Tags: Recipes, Butter, Cinnamon, Pies and Tarts, Apples
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Citizen Kahan
Tribune reporterPaul Kahan is the opposite of an enigma. He is easily explained. He is pleased by simple pleasures. He defines his life by four pillars: chef, record-store geek, husband, law-abiding citizen. Everything else is noise. In judgment, he renders halfway...Tags: Science, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Chili, Yoga, Tacos
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New cocktail bar Billy Sunday opening in Logan Square
RedEyeThough it was the food menu from Charlie Trotter alum Matthias Merges that first grabbed headlines when Yusho opened in Avondale in 2012, beverage director Alex Bachman's cocktails soon earned praise of their own. With the opening of cocktail bar...Tags: Recipes, Billy Sunday, Charlie Trotter, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking
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Best in chow
What you hold in your hands is our favorite issue of the year. We get to revisit our sauce-stained notebooks and offer raised glasses to the restaurants and chefs we felt best defined Chicago's dining scene these past 12 months.
This marks our third...Tags: Acadia, Chicago Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Breads, Lifestyle and Leisure
Nov 15, 2012
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Aug 29, 2012
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Aug 30, 2012
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Aug 28, 2012
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Dec 27, 2012
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Aug 30, 2012
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Mar 7, 2013
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Mar 14, 2013
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Feb 27, 2013
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Feb 2, 2012
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Jan 16, 2013
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Jan 17, 2013
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