The Feedbag (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
As you may remember hearing, Mike Cirino, Serpico lookalike and king of all underground supper club chefs, has taken on his most over-the-top challenge yet. The brash young upstart, profiled recently in the Times, is seeking to single-handedly recreate the 24-course Grant Achatz / Thomas Keller dinner at Per Se in New York, Chicago and [...]
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Chef Grant Achatz of Alinea in Chicago appeared alongside the Foo Fighters on last night’s Thanksgiving themed Top Chef New York episode (which was actually filmed last summer). Reached last night by telephone, Achatz himself was settling in for Thanksgiving Eve. Spoiler-free insights below. This was your first time judging on Top Chef, right? That’s right. What kind of experience...
chadzilla (Free subscription) | yesterday
After all the turkey variations lately, I thought I'd be over it... but here's a cool video of Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas demonstrating how...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
It’s been a strange couple of weeks for Top Chef fans. Last week’s Thanksgiving Eve episode pitted the cheftestants’ skills against culinary tastes both highbrow (Grant Achatz) and lowbrow (the Foo Fighters) in Rochester, which is a city in New York, but not New York City. In the end, Team Rainbow was demolished when Richard Sweeney, the bearded 27-year-old who was an open admirer of...
MenuPages Blog :: Chicago (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... epic than most, as it was written up in the Washington Post. It also contains an amazing line: "Grant Achatz, why hast thou forsaken me?" Which is something we say out loud every day that we log into our Gmail and realize, yet again, that Grant is not our gChat buddy . Oh snap, Garrett’s! [TOC Blog] Caramel Popcorn, liquefied [Alinea At Home] [Photo via kozumel's Flickr ]
Arial is not Helvetica; (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... on being able to be quickly adaptable and creative on the fly. The guest chef is Chicago chef Grant Achatz, who is yet another “molecular gastronomy” chef, but has also battled cancer. So it does make sense that the challenge is focused around rolling with said punches. Drawing knives out of the block, they see that each has a random number, which translates into a page in the Top...
Eater (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Since we didn't get a chance to do this on Thursday, here's a belated look last week's Top Chef, one of the more ridiculous episodes in recent memory—Thanksgiving in July, The Foo Fighters, an Achatz/Swanson Chicken broth quickfire—from comedian Max...
Eater LA (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Because of the holiday, we didn't do a full recap from the third Top Chef episode even though it quite possibly was one our favorites---not because the chefs were particularly notable but because the Foo Fighters (now always to be known as "Food Fighters") and were there to judge the Thanksgiving dinner (and way more interesting than Grant Achatz). We'll take you to Eater NY's recap if...
Daily Blender (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... expensive restaurant in the U.S. Other notables on the list: Alinea , Chicago A prix-fixe menu at Grant Achatz’s gastronomic jungle gym will demand around $195.00. Canlis , Seattle Summed up as a “quintessential northwest dining experience”, the restaurant has been thriving since 1950. Inn at Little Washington , Washington, Virginia The French Room , Dallas Urasawa, Los Angeles Joel...
Well Fed Network (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Posted by Patsy Kreitman on Edible TV Last week’s Top Chef threw some curveballs at the competitors. In the Quickfire Challenge, they were initially given a page number in the Top Chef The Cookbook with a recipe that they would have to put their own spin on from previous seasons. After about 15 minutes of prep work, they were told that Padma and guest judge, Grant Achatz, now wanted them...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Last night, Top Chef aired its Thanksgiving-themed episode that featured a holiday meal for the Foo Fighters--and their entourage--as the Elimination Challenge. Grant Achatz, named Best Chef in the U.S. by the James Beard Foundation last year for his Chicago restaurant Alinea , was the guest judge for both the Quickfire and Elimination challenges. When Padma Lakshmi told the cheftestants...
