The primary author of the soon-to-launch Tasting Table Chicago daily email newsletter will be Heather Sperling. You may recognize Heather from such resume bullet-points as writing for StarChefs, and being Grant Achatz's long-term girlfriend. Update: Chicagoist checked with Tasting Table...
We heard from 312DD who heard from someone who knows that Spencer and Heidi from The Hills try to waltz into Alinea without a reservation one night. At which point the gruesome twosome "were promptly turned away in hilarious fashion...
Buried in an otherwise same-old article on Bloomberg about America's Most Ridiculously Expensive Restaurants or whatever is this little tidbit from a certain Mr. K about a certain expansion at a certain restaurant A: Alinea’s private dining room can’t handle...
The New York Post's Page Six Magazine (which is to the NY media landscape what my younger sister OMGing with her friends about high school makeouts is to the world of international finance) has this totally dumb centerpiece article comparing...
The inimitable Pollock & Ruby over at Chicago Mag drop a bomb today: former Powerhouse chef John Peters is "in talks" with the guys from his old stomping grounds — that'd be Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas of some cruddy...
Holy crap, y'all. A blogger takes a long weekend full of family (lovely) and turduckens (meh) and sleep (phenomenal), and comes home only to be slammed flat on her back by a reader tip: Don't know if you'd already heard,...