Next (restaurant)

At Trois Mec, diners must buy tickets upfront

2013-04-13 19:58:00

Last month, the manager of the Beverly Hills restaurant Red Medicine shamed diners who didn't turn up for their Saturday night reservations by calling them out on Twitter. "I hope you enjoyed your GF's Bday and the flowers that you didn't bring when you...

5 Questions for Flynn McGarry

2012-05-14 16:33:42

Matt Molina, Wolfgang Puck win James Beard awards

2012-05-08 16:34:00

13-year-old Flynn McGarry to cook at Playa

2012-05-01 16:33:30

Ex-Chicagoan conquers Mexican food

2013-06-13 00:00:00

NEW YORK — Rarely smiling or saying more than was necessary as he created a twisting column of chocolate ganache or turned peanut butter into powder, Alex Stupak was an intense figure in Grant Achatz's intense kitchen as Alinea's opening pastry...

Vegan restaurants in Chicago

2013-05-30 00:00:00

From this summer’s vegan menu at Grant Achatz’s restaurant Next to the buzz about plant-based diets, veganism is definitely having a moment. “A few years ago, people said, ‘Oh, vegan? What does that mean?” said Don...

Go veg yourself

2013-05-31 00:00:00

From this summer's vegan menu at Grant Achatz's restaurant Next to plenty of buzz about plant-based diets, veganism is definitely having a moment. "A few years ago, people said, 'Oh, vegan? What does that mean?" said Don Clements, who opened all-vegan...

Four stars for Next's Vegan menu

2013-05-30 00:00:00

Chicago has seen vegetarian restaurants before, and vegetable menus before, but nothing, not even the vegetable tasting menus that Charlie Trotter offered during his long career, compares to the Vegan menu currently featured at Next. In more than 20...

American chefs finish seventh in Bocuse d'Or competition

2013-01-30 13:39:00

Chef Richard Rosendale and his dream team of mentors -- including Chicago-based Alinea/Next chef Grant Achatz, Thomas Keller (The French Laundry, Per Se) and Daniel Boulud (Daniel) -- traveled to Lyon, France, with the goal of Team USA winning its first-...

Phil Vettel recommends

2013-01-03 00:00:00

A roundup of restaurants reviewed in 2012 by critic Phil Vettel. Acadia ✭✭✭ 1639 S. Wabash Ave., 312-360-9500. Ryan McCaskey's gamble to place a luxury restaurant in the South Loop is, so far, paying off. People are crowding into...

Phil Vettel reviews the Sicily menu at Next

2012-06-28 08:07:00

For its latest menu, Next restaurant invested in a special piece of cooking equipment. A Weber kettle grill. Standing alongside the recirculating thermal circulators, Anti-Griddles, Sonicpreps and other high-tech gizmos that populate Next's high-tech...

Iliana in Wonderland

2012-12-13 00:00:00

At one point of a dinner at Elizabeth restaurant, I was served a dark and rich maitake-mushroom tea (really a clarified broth) while a pure-white device on the table played Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit." Which made me think that chef/owner Iliana...

Going to Next is a visit to the kitchen and the mind of chefs Grant Achatz and Dave Beran. This dinner was one of the most extraordinarily intellectual meals I've ever had, says Michael Lev.

2012-10-04 07:58:34

, "but I am not his patron. The idea that there's one guy who's an artist and the other who is rich and retired and pulling strings -- that's far from the truth.

2012-01-11 17:18:16

Tastes of youth: The flavors of a fast-food burger are broken down on the new menu at acclaimed chef Grant Achatz's Next restaurant.

2011-11-30 18:05:41