Tag: lincoln park

review: retrospective… (alinea)

Nashville, Tennessee, 2004.  A ruddy-cheeked cherub came out of the kitchen after dinner to say hello. He was just a kid.  I was just a kid. We both loved food. He cooked. I ate.  We started talking. Though our conversation drifted from here to there, it moored mostly around a new restaurant that was opening […]

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review: retrospective… (alinea)

Nashville, Tennessee, 2004.  A ruddy-cheeked cherub came out of the kitchen after dinner to say hello. He was just a kid.  I was just a kid. We both loved food. He cooked. I ate.  We started talking. Though our conversation drifted from here to there, it moored mostly around a new restaurant that was opening […]

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review: to feel amid the city’s jar…

North Pond Chicago, Illinois Looking south over the North Pond of Lincoln Park is like being one of the Pevensies – Edmund, Lucy, Peter, and Susan – looking back into the wardrobe. Okay, so the tree-framed vignette of Chicago’s skyline is much grander than a closet full of musty coats. But the effect is the […]

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review: to feel amid the city’s jar…

North Pond Chicago, Illinois Looking south over the North Pond of Lincoln Park is like being one of the Pevensies – Edmund, Lucy, Peter, and Susan – looking back into the wardrobe. Okay, so the tree-framed vignette of Chicago’s skyline is much grander than a closet full of musty coats. But the effect is the […]

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review: moving gotham…

Lamb Tartar L20, Chicago The producers of “The Dark Knight” aren’t the only ones moving Gotham to Chicago. Rich Melman has also done it with L20, Laurent Gras’s new “modern seafood” restaurant in Chicago’s tony Lincoln Park neighborhood where I recently had a memorable meal. It’s undoubtedly one of the most important restaurant openings to […]

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review: moving gotham…

Lamb Tartar L20, Chicago The producers of “The Dark Knight” aren’t the only ones moving Gotham to Chicago. Rich Melman has also done it with L20, Laurent Gras’s new “modern seafood” restaurant in Chicago’s tony Lincoln Park neighborhood where I recently had a memorable meal. It’s undoubtedly one of the most important restaurant openings to […]

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