When Grant Achatz And Common Teamed To Fight Alzheimer's
During the recent James Beard weekend in Chicago, chef Grant Achatz and rapper Common teamed to launch the Alzheimer's Association new campaign.
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Chef Grant Achatz And Alinea Group Open The Aviary In NYC
The famed Alinea group is opening another iteration of The Aviary in New York City. Chef Grant Achatz will serve dishes made popular in Chicago and more.
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Short Stories: How Greg Baxtrom Handled A Visit From His Mentor, Grant Achatz
What happened when Grant Achatz came to check out Olmsted, the buzzy Brooklyn restaurant from Greg Baxtrom? Here's the story.
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At Olmsted, Greg Baxtrom Turns Carrots Into Crepes: New Chefs Rising, Episode 12
Greg Baxtrom of Brooklyn hot spot Olmsted is the next profile in our New Chefs Rising video series. Here, he makes carrot crepes and traces his career.
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Tasting Menus Are Gradually Demanding Less Of Your Life
Grant Achatz is many things: an imaginative chef, a cocktail visionary and now (unexpectedly) a time saver. His acclaimed Chicago dining destination, Alinea, named "Outstanding Restaurant" by the esteemed James Beard Foundation earlier this year, recently reopened after a five-month renovation. Complete with its newly classic look, the restaurant also comes with a fresh perspective on time management, according to a glowing four-star review in…
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Why Chef Grant Achatz Gave Cocktails A Shot
Acclaimed Chicago chef Grant Achatz is one of the featured keynote speakers at this year's Tales of the Cocktail, the world's premier cocktail festival, taking place July 19-24, 2016, in New Orleans. When Grant Achatz and his team huddled up a few years ago to open the Aviary, Chicago’s groundbreaking drinking destination, food was never far from…
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Paris, 1910. It's The Inspiration For Grant Achatz's French Bistro Menu At Next.
The team behind Chicago’s innovative rotating-theme restaurant Next announced the three new concepts for 2015 last week — including Spanish tapas and a wine-centered concept called “Terroir.” But since it’s French Week here at Food Republic, our interest specifically piqued when we heard that French Bistro cuisine will take the first rotation of the year.…
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A Culinary Couple Debates Whether Babies Should Be Banned From Restaurants
Ed Hardy and Francoise Villeneuve have a 7-month-old baby, about the same age as the wailing tot at Alinea that set off a nationwise stir after chef-owner Grant Achatz tweeted about the incident. As culinary professionals, they also have a unique perspective: would they themselves take their baby to a well-heeled establishment for a sit-down…
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When Alex Stupak And Grant Achatz Get Together To Cook, Friends Show Up
Alex Stupak (right) worked as a pastry chef with Grant Achatz at Alinea in Chicago.[/caption] Achatz working on a dish that featured banana, celery and truffles.[/caption] Last week New York City chef Alex Stupak hosted the last of his Push Project dinners at Empellón Cocina with Grant Achatz of Alinea. What's a Push Project dinner,…
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Video: A Preview Of The Bocuse D'Or Menu At Chicago's Next, With Dramatic Music
[embed=//www.youtube.com/embed/hSnhoOwoG_s] Last Thursday, Grant Achatz tweeted to announce the first “friends and family” service for the latest iteration of Next, his quarterly switching dinner series in Chicago. Traditionally, friends and family has preceded regular service by a day to a week — so everybody knew things were getting pretty close. And this morning, the famously…
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Watch Grant Achatz Taste Test Canned Soups
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/J7rGdVNq5_g] Grant Achatz, molecular gastronomy maestro and general shunner of canned food products, found time in his busy schedule to taste test three minestrone vegetable soup brands: Wolfgang Puck, Amy’s and Sesame Street. Why did he do this? We have no idea. But, Grant, we give you points for artistic interpretation and for iPhone cinematography.…
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A Non-Vegan Survives The Vegan Cycle At Chicago's Next. Obviously.
“Vegan” is the newest iteration of Grant Achatz’s restaurant Next in Chicago, which reinvents its prix-fixe menu every season (complete with a promo trailer) and has people clamoring for one of the highly coveted tickets required to gain entry. For full disclosure, I am not a vegan and cannot imagine a day without dairy, fish…
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From Bar Bartender To Kitchen Bartender: The Journey Of Charles Joly
If Charles Joly were a chef, he would be a household name. He has won just about every cocktail competition in America. For better or for worse, he has competed and won on one of television’s rare bartender shows, On the Rocks. He has also been nominated for a James Beard Award, and I have…
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Video: Next Restaurant's "The Hunt" Hits You Right There
It's not every day a restaurant releases a promo video that truly makes you feel good inside. To know that Grant Achatz and his team at Next are still putting the magic in the food. "The Hunt," released just this morning, portrays the constant pursuit of the perfect meal. It's a promo for the next…
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Richard Rosendale Is Not Packing Light For The Bocuse D'Or
It's just over two weeks until the Bocuse D'Or competition in Lyon, France (January 29-30), the bi-annual throwdown of élite chefs representing their countries, the so-called culinary Olympics. The man repping the United States, Richard Rosendale of The Greebrier resort in West Virginia, is ready to roll. He and commis Corey Siegel have logged tens…
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Video: The Plating Of Alinea's Lamb 86 Is Art. Art, People!
[embed=https://www.youtube.com/embed/wSygdcskpFw] We sometimes struggle to wrap our heads around a place like Alinea, where a “ticket” to a tasting menu costs north of $200 for courses called “ginger and five other flavors,” and where the food vs. art debate rages strong. But after watching this video from the Chicago restaurant's kitchen — showing the surgical…
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Richard Rosendale, Bocuse USA's Man In The Bunker
When we last caught up with Richard Rosendale, the chef who was selected to rep the USA in the 2013 international cooking competition known as the Bocuse D'Or, he had just beat out several peers for the honor and he was adamant in his resolve to do what others before him have failed to do:…
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Video: Next Vs. El Bulli
Might be a good time to visit Chicago again. Grant Achatz's ticketed restaurant Next will be channeling Ferran Adrià's famed el Bulli this month. From what we hear from our friends in Chicago, getting a table may be as much of a pipe dream as the Cubs winning the pennant, but this video teaser makes…
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Achatz Turns To Cocktails
Chef Grant Achatz is opening Next restaurant in March but he is not stopping there. At the same time he plans to open a cocktail lounge, called Aviary, alongside the restaurant. While the two businesses are connected by an open doorway and owned by Achatz they are not meant to be thematically joined. “They’re two…
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Grant Achatz's Next Big Thing
Chef Grant Achatz has won virtually every major award possible for his work at his groundbreaking restaurant Alinea in Chicago, and he is not one to rest on prior achievement. He is one to constantly ask himself and his collaborators, “What’s next?” A restaurant called Next is next. Achatz is set to open his newest…
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