Chefs + Restaurants
Restaurant Notes
Chicago: The Check Please Effect
How a local T.V. show is making (and breaking) the restaurant business.
First Taste
Hungry Mother
Chef Barry Maiden bares his Southern culinary soul—with style and refinement—in Yankee Doodle town.
First Taste
Pike Street Fish Fry
You can smell the place a block away, with its enticing aromas of the ocean and freshly fried potatoes.
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First Taste: Hungry Mother
Chef/co-owner Barry Maiden deserves credit for baring his Southern culinary soul in Yankee Doodle town—something he does with style and refinement.
05.13.08
- Keywords
- charles kelsey,
- first taste,
- boston,
- southern u.s.,
- barry maiden
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The Check Please Effect
How a local television show is making (and breaking) the restaurant business.
05.08.08
- Keywords
- restaurant notes,
- david tamarkin,
- chicago,
- culinary culture,
- middle eastern
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Challenging Tastes
The world is full of rowdy events sponsored by food companies. But the D’Artagnan Duckathlon is a little different. Here were some of the highlights.
05.05.08
- Keywords
- christy harrison,
- chefs,
- new york,
- poultry,
- culinary culture
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First Taste: Pike Street Fish Fry
You can literally smell the place a block away, a good oceanic fishmonger aroma combined with a hint of frying potatoes.
05.02.08
- Keywords
- first taste,
- matthew amster-burton,
- seafood,
- seattle
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First Taste: Terroir Wine Bar
The Riesling Asylum might be a more apt name for this sliver of a wine bar in New York’s East Village—only the inmates are the ones running the place.
05.01.08
- Keywords
- first taste,
- tara q. thomas,
- new york,
- bars,
- wine
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First Taste: MiLa
Daring dishes like Oysters Rockefeller Deconstructed make Allison Vines-Rushing’s new New Orleans spot a destination.
04.25.08
- Keywords
- first taste,
- john t. edge,
- new orleans,
- allison vines-rushing,
- slade rushing
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Protein Forward
Top chefs shed light on the mysterious rules of plating.
04.25.08
- Keywords
- maggie ruggiero,
- chefs,
- culinary culture,
- test kitchen,
- michel richard

















