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    Halloween Spoof of Alinea in Chicago

    By PDX Food Dude Last Update March 16, 2014 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…”

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    1. Joni says

      March 26, 2015 at 10:33 am

      Hilarious!

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