Chris Jones

Chicago Forward: Future of art in Chicago

2013-03-14 00:00:00

The conversation crackled after Wednesday night's Chicago Forward program on the future of the arts in Chicago. “I thought this was an especially auspicious panel with views you don’t often hear,” Tribune arts critic and co-moderator...

A potluck kind of year

2013-01-03 00:00:00

If only it were so easy to pithily proclaim 2012 as the Year of the (fill-in-the-blank). But there's really no one thread that neatly ties together the Chicago restaurant scene these last 12 months. A restaurant that put Chicago on the culinary map 25...

Winter agenda: Events for the season

2012-11-11 00:00:00

STAGE The Christmas Schooner Have yourself a City of Big Shoulders Christmas at the Mercury Theater, the current home of the beloved Chicago musical, “The Christmas Schooner.” Created by John Reeger and Julie Shannon, “Schooner”...

A New York state of mind

2012-10-05 14:20:00

NEW YORK — Wandering through the darkened auditorium of Broadway's Cort Theatre here on a recent Saturday morning felt a lot like a tour of Chicago's off-Loop theater. Michael Shannon, the former denizen of the Chicago fringe turned TV and movie...

Top chefs have 'A Taste for the Arts'

2012-05-18 08:12:00

Student performances and Top Chef stations were the main attractions at "A Taste for the Arts" benefiting the Chicago Academy of the Arts. More than 350 attended the free performances by students and alumni May 10 at the Harris Theater. The show opened...

Behind two useful arts and dining sections this week

2012-01-13 11:42:00

There were two days this week where the Chicago Tribune featured great dining and culture roundups. I like reading those kinds of sections, because I always feel like my cultural incursions are so widely spaced that I'm always starting from scratch....

Top Chef Week 12 Recap: Haikus for our fallen samurai chef

2012-01-25 20:40:00

In honor of our fallen samurai chef, a series of haikus for Chicago's most lovable molecular gastronomist: Chris Jones of Moto You're Padma's "Lovable Nerd" Melding science, food� We've bonded with you You're sodium alginate We're calcium salt�...

Top Chef Week 10 recap: The most insufferable recap yet

2012-01-11 22:08:00

Ten weeks into these Top Chef recaps, as I once again sputter out a few hundred words on the show, I find myself writing less about the competition itself and more on philosophical matters.� (Pardon the pretension, allow me to sew a leather elbow patch...

'Top Chef: Texas' recap: Episode 6, 'Game On'

2011-12-14 21:25:00

It's a pretty well known fact that I want to go out drinking with the “Top Chef” contestants. Whenever the cheftestants are in the stew room or come back tired and beat from an elimination challenge, I want to jump through my TV and pound some...

'Top Chef: Texas' recap: 'Don't Be Tardy for the Dinner Party'

2011-12-01 08:58:00

Welcome back Top Cheffers! I missed you all last week, but I was too busy baking pumpkin whoopie pies for Thanksgiving to recap "Top Chef: Texas." But two things happened last week that you need to know. Firstly, everyone's favorite couple, Chris...

'Top Chef: Texas' episode 5 recap

2011-11-30 21:29:00

Top Chef Week 5 Recap: Over and done

2011-11-30 22:53:00

Probability, you fickle law. Here we are to think more Chicago chefs competing means a greater chance a Chicagoan would be crowned Top Chef, and we forget its inverse, that Chicagoans also have a greater chance of being eliminated. Four weeks ago, the...

Dining highlights: Chicago contestants dominated last season's "Top Chef": Chris Jones, from left, Sarah Grueneberg, Richie Farina, Heather Terhune (background), Beverly Kim (foreground), Chuy Valencia. Grueneberg finished in second place among the 16 finalists.

2013-01-02 14:09:15

Six Chicago chefs competed on "Top Chef: Texas." Pictured from left: Chris Jones, from Moto, Sarah Grueneberg, of Spiaggia, Richie Farina, also of Moto, Heather Terhune (background), of Sable, Beverly Kim (foreground), of Aria, and Chuy Valencia, of Chilam Balam.

2012-05-08 10:05:00

Your Top Chef contestants, Chicago class of 2012. From left clockwise: Chris Jones (Moto), Sarah Grueneberg (Spiaggia), Richie Farina (Moto), Heather Terhune (Sable), Chuy Valencia (Chilam Balam), Beverly Kim (Aria). (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune)

2012-03-06 14:52:25