As 2025 comes to close, Eater Chicago looks back on the year’s 10 most-read stories. From Michelin Guide announcements to big ...

At any other restaurant, it would have been a nonsensical request. Even at Alinea, it was still a little odd. “I met with the chefs and told them, ‘We have to make food float,'” Grant Achatz says.

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Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

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Chef Grant Achatz has a new feather in his culinary cap. For the third year in a row, Elite Traveler awarded Chicago's Alinea the top slot in its list of the best 100 restaurant in world. The list was ...

Chef Cat Cora called out Alinea in a since-deleted Instagram post over the weekend, putting the world-famous Chicago restaurant on blast for the way it handled a reservation she had allegedly ...

Alinea has been consistently named one of the best restaurants in Chicago, the country, and the world. Yet, at the stroke of ten successful years, chef-owner Grant Achatz and partner Nick Kokonas ...

This interview was originally broadcast on March 3, 2011. A typical 23-course meal at Chicago's Alinea restaurant might include olive oil lollypops, sweet potatoes skewered by smoking cinnamon sticks, ...

The 3D rendering of the novel coronavirus — with its gray exterior and bright red spikes — has inspired incarnations as breads, cakes, burgers, beers and plushies around the world, a reaction that ...