Table Fifty-Two
52 W. Elm
312-573-4000
Chef Art Smith’s upscale Southern-inspired comfort classics and attentive service warm both heart and stomach. Dinner starts with a savory goat cheese biscuit baked in its own miniature cast iron skillet and ends with an array of decadent desserts to choose from. In between are hearty and familiar yet imaginative entrees such […]
Category Archives: Celebrities
Mini-review: Table Fifty-Two
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Beverage videos of the week
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Is Tom Colicchio mocking Grant Achatz in this Diet Coke commercial? You decide:
Watch Rachel Maddow mix a Jack Rose:
Anthony Bourdain on Sound Opinions, tonight at 8 PM
Friday, January 25, 2008
The Bourdain makes a guest appearance tonight on our favorite NPR show. From the Trib:
…what the heck does Anthony Bourdain listen to when he is cooking Italian food?
Find out Friday on “Sound Opinions” on WBEZ-91.5 FM when Tribune rock critic Greg Kot and his sidekick Jim DeRogatis, rock critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, talk with […]
wasabigelatine’s 2007 holiday gift guide
Monday, November 26, 2007
Last Christmas a friend of mine received a Starbucks gift card from his boss. Not a very original gift, but it’s the thought that counts. And that thought must’ve been “I don’t want to offend you by not getting anything but I really couldn’t care less, so let’s see what’s in the lobby. Oh hey, […]
The ultimate goodie bag from Charlie Trotter’s
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Last Sunday, Charlie Trotter’s celebrated its 20th anniversary with an eight-course over-the-top extravaganza cooked up by Trotter and many other international culinary luminaries like Thomas Keller (The French Laundry, Per Se), Ferran Adrià (el Bulli), and Hester Blumenthal (The Fat Duck). The $5,000-a-head dinner also included a goodie bag any gourmand would almost pay the […]
Chicago celebrity-owned restaurants
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Metromix has an article about “Chicago alternatives to hot celeb-owned restaurants on the coasts”, such as Justin Timberlake’s Southern Hospitality (it recommends Smoke Daddy for low-key BBQ and down-home cookin’) and suggests Japonais as a substitute for Ashton Kutcher’s Geisha House, which I’m sure offers delights with other ethnically-sensitive names like Mr. Miyagi’s Maki […]
Anthony Bourdain’s holiday special
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Our favorite food and travel raconteur Anthony Bourdain has filmed a holiday episode of No Reservations with rockers Queens of the Stone Age. (I personally would’ve chosen a cooler band like, say, Iggy and the Stooges. But as one astute rollingstone.com reader pointed out, this is “much better than the ill-fated Emeril and King Diamond […]
The mad genius of the Sedaris family
Monday, September 10, 2007
The New Yorker’s annual food issue (September 3-10) features gems like Calvin Trillin’s essay on Singaporean street food; Gary Shteyngart’s “Sixty-nine Cents“, the author’s poignant and funny reminiscence of a young immigrant’s desire to free himself from the cuisine of his homeland in favor of McDonald’s hamburgers; and a short anecdote called “Tasteless” by David […]
Morimoto cooking demo and book signing — Saturday, September 8
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Masaharu Morimoto of Iron Chef fame will be at Fox & Obel this Saturday for a demonstration and book signing. Here’s the info from Fox & Obel’s website:
Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking
FREE Demonstration and Book Signing
With Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto
Saturday, September 8th
Demonstration 12:30-1pm
Note: Demo is sold out
Signing 1-3pm
Chef Morimoto has been the […]
The sweet taste of liberty in your mouth
Friday, August 17, 2007
The 4th of July may be over, but every day’s a good day to show your patriotism by consuming a pint of Stephen Colbert’s AmeriCone Dream. This is not a joke — it’s a real Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor, and we have the video to prove it.
It’s one of my favorite Ben […]
Hedi Slimane’s baby food diet
Thursday, March 15, 2007
After a particularly deranged stream-of-consciousness Googling session, I came upon one of the most hilarious articles I’ve read in months:
A fad too far: my hell on the baby food diet
According to the article, Hedi Slimane (left), chief designer of Dior Homme, maintains his waifish physique by sticking to a diet of — you guessed it […]
Franz Foodinand
Monday, May 15, 2006
Alex Kapranos, frontman of Franz Ferdinand, has written a book. Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand, which releases sometime this fall, includes columns he’s written for The Guardian such as this one. His articles read like a food-focused travelogue/journal with lots of blunt, colorful observations. I normally avoid celebrity-penned anything, but Kapranos’ writing […]
My hero
Friday, April 21, 2006
I first heard of Takeru Kobayashi several years ago in a Giant Robot magazine article about the young Japanese man’s dominance of the competitive eating world. Some people consider it a sport, and if you’ve ever had the stomach-churning pleasure of watching Kobayashi put away a record-breaking 53 and 1/2 hot dogs in 12 […]
Two New Yorkers in Chicago
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Anthony Bourdain was in town today promoting his new Les Halles Cookbook at the Borders on Michigan Avenue. I wouldn’t have even known this if it weren’t for Josh, who called me at work, excitedly telling me that Mr. Bourdain was a guest on Mancow and he got to ask him a question — “Could […]
