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Home » Charlie Trotter

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Posted inFood & Drink

Bye Bye Blackbird

by Mike Sula July 3, 2020August 18, 2021

Farewell to one of Chicago’s most iconic restaurants.

Posted inFood & Drink

Phillip Foss in El

by Mike Sula October 31, 2019August 18, 2021

The restless innovator and Michelin-starred chef bares his soul in a new graphic novel.

Posted inBlogs

How Mordecai chef-owner Matthias Merges helped transform modern fine dining

by Kate Schmidt May 17, 2018August 18, 2021

A phone call to PolyScience in Niles resulted in the popularization of immersion circulators in restaurant kitchens.

Posted inBlogs

Lettuce now praise Richard Melman, one of the greatest innovators in Chicago food history

by Steve Heisler April 16, 2018August 18, 2021

Melman’s Lettuce Entertain You chain did just as much as Charlie Trotter to make Chicago a center for innovative cuisine, the Reader‘s Elizabeth M. Tamny argued back in 2006.

Posted inFood & Drink

Is Matthias Merges and Graham Elliot’s Gideon Sweet the second coming of Yusho?

by Mike Sula February 21, 2018August 18, 2021

The Randolph Street restaurant is a reunion of sorts for the celebrity chefs, but it’s in some ways also a rebirth.

Posted inBlogs

Police officers elect new union president, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd April 14, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, the passenger dragged from a United Airlines plane at O’Hare reportedly suffered a concussion, lost two front teeth, and had his nose broken.

Posted inFood & Drink

Ixcateco Grill is a breath of fresh cilantro in Albany Park

by Chicago Reader September 21, 2015August 18, 2021

A longtime Bayless vet brings midscale southern Mexican to a neighborhood rife with taquerias, tamaleros, and chicken joints.

Posted inBlogs

Remembering chef Homaro Cantu through his writing

by Michael Gebert April 15, 2015August 18, 2021

Looking back at the life and autobiographical essays of the late chef Homaro Cantu of Moto

Posted inFood & Drink

What happens when all-star chefs get in bed with Big Food?

by Mike Sula March 5, 2014August 18, 2021

Culinary icons from Paul Kahan to Rick Bayless, Grant Achatz to Matthias Merges, Ina Pinkney to Homaro Cantu have forged unlikely relationships with brands such as Nestlé, Kraft, and Lean Cuisine. The results might surprise you.

The boudin noir—blood sausage with pickled squid tentacles, braised cabbage, and ink vinaigrette—stole the show.
Posted inFood & Drink

A10, the much-anticipated Hyde Park restaurant, is for now a B minus

by Mara Shalhoup December 27, 2013August 18, 2021

A10, Matthias Merges’s much-anticipated Hyde Park restaurant, gets a B minus for now.

Posted inBlogs

Underground dining experience gets a real kitchen with 42 Grams

by Michael Gebert December 11, 2013August 19, 2021

Underground dinner Sous Rising will go street level with 42 Grams next month.

Posted inBlogs

Steaks at Next, pizza back at Burt’s, and more

by Michael Gebert November 14, 2013August 19, 2021

Next serves steak, Lee Wolen to Boka, Burt’s pizza is back, a Mangalitsa pig dinner benefit at Lula Cafe, and more.

Posted inBlogs

Keeping an eye on Michelin Day so you don’t have to

by Michael Gebert November 12, 2013August 19, 2021

Watching the latest Michelin ratings unfold throughout the day

Posted inBlogs

All hands turn out to cover the death of Charlie Trotter

by Michael Miner November 7, 2013August 19, 2021

On the coverage of the death of Charlie Trotter

Posted inBlogs

Charlie Trotter dead at 54

by Michael Gebert November 5, 2013August 19, 2021

The chef who created Chicago’s fine dining scene has died.

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