ELBULLI ARRIVES STATESIDE
Renowned performance chef Grant Achatz is offering a tribute to Ferran Adria and the close of elBulli with a 29-course menu at NEXT. For $365 diners can experience Achatz’s interpretation of elBulli’s top dishes and drinks from the last 25 years. Here is the menu in Spanish and English. Expect to savor nitro caipirinha with tarragon concentrate, hot/cold trout roe tempura, iconic spherical olives, cuttlefish and coconut ravioli with soy, ginger & mint and chocolate donuts. If you are unable to get a seat at NEXT (953 W. Fulton Market, Chicago, IL), watch NEXT’s transformation and the dishes.
WORLD’S 11 TOUGHEST TABLES TO GET
Eater.com just released a list of the top eleven hardest restaurant reservations to get in the world. Reportedly the renowned Danish chef Rene Redzepi’s restaurant Noma receives 20,000 reservation requests a day. 1. Noma, Copenhagen 2. Sukiyabashi Jiro, Tokyo 3. Next, Chicago 4. Tickets, Barcelona 5. Quintessence, Tokyo 6. The Fat Duck, Bray, Berkshire, England 7. Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare, Brooklyn, NY, USA 8. Minibar by José Andrés, Washington D.C. 9. Schwa, Chicago 10. The French Laundry, Yountville, California, USA 11. Yam’Tcha, Paris Wondering why some of your favorites aren’t on the list. Eater.com has also outlined those that “almost made the cut”: Alinea (Chicago); Gordon Ramsay at Royal […]