• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu

Portland Food and Drink

Restaurant News and Information For Portland Oregon Area Restaurants and Bars

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Send me email!
  • Home
  • About
    • Home
    • About the Site
    • The Authors
    • Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
    • Email me
  • Reviews
    • List of All Reviews
    • Steakhouse Roundup
      • Steakhouse Reviews Introduction
      • El Gaucho Steakhouse
      • Morton’s Steakhouse
      • Ringside Steakhouse
      • Ruth’s Chris
      • Steakhouse – Results
  • Topics
    • Memorials
    • Food Memories
    • Travel Writing
    • Food Writing
      • Alcohol Related
        • Beer
        • Wine
        • Spirits
      • April Fools Stories For Portland
      • Contests and Competition
    • Authors / Book Reviews
    • Cheese information
    • Interviews: Honest dialog with people in the Portland food industry
    • Recipes
  • Guides
    • Portland Coffee Guide
    • Guide to Local Wine Shops
    • Guide to Portland Distilleries
    • Guide to Portland’s Beer Shops

Halloween Spoof of Alinea in Chicago

October 31, 2013 by PDX Food Dude 1 Comment

From the Huffington Post – Now that restaurants are getting into the dress-up game for Halloween, Real Kitchen in Chicago decided it would go as one of the world’s most lauded eateries — and the results are truly terrifying.

The 32-year-old chef said he dreamed up the Alinea-esque menu by sitting down brainstorming “the most ridiculous thing I could.” A former saucier at the famed Charlie Trotter’s, Schmuck said the video was more about showing the extreme ends of the spectrum between his take-out cafe’s offerings and Alinea’s haute cuisine. The two restaurants are “complete opposites,” he said.

“[Alinea goes] to a much, much further extreme,” Schmuck said. “We’re similar in some ways — we both try to be rigorous with food — but then you have takeout versus the four-hour sit-down meal, the price point…”

Related

Filed Under: Portland Food and Restaurant News and Discussion

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Joni says

    March 26, 2015 at 10:33 am

    Hilarious!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

© 2025 · PortlandFoodandDrink.com • See Terms of Service and Privacy Policy