http://www.eat.wasabigelatine.com/2009/02/08/alinea-google/ spicy gastronomic adventures Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:49:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.eat.wasabigelatine.com/2009/02/08/alinea-google/#comment-438 wasabigelatine Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:05:17 +0000 http://www.eat.wasabigelatine.com/2009/02/08/alinea-google/#comment-438 I haven't been following Top Chef this season. Is it good? I have read the NYT article - very interesting! I'm sure Chicago restaurants are feeling the economic downturn as well, but the restaurants I go to seem as crowded as ever. It's possible they're less busy on the weekdays. I haven’t been following Top Chef this season. Is it good? I have read the NYT article – very interesting! I’m sure Chicago restaurants are feeling the economic downturn as well, but the restaurants I go to seem as crowded as ever. It’s possible they’re less busy on the weekdays.

]]> http://www.eat.wasabigelatine.com/2009/02/08/alinea-google/#comment-437 Natalie Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:18:26 +0000 http://www.eat.wasabigelatine.com/2009/02/08/alinea-google/#comment-437 Are you watching Top Chef, too, these days? Interesting article (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/dining/04note.html) on fine dining restaurants doing more to draw in diners, "if you eat out regularly in New York, you’ve noticed a different reception, an altered mood: extreme solicitousness tinged with outright desperation." Are you watching Top Chef, too, these days? Interesting article (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/dining/04note.html) on fine dining restaurants doing more to draw in diners, “if you eat out regularly in New York, you’ve noticed a different reception, an altered mood: extreme solicitousness tinged with outright desperation.”

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