Smart Etta suggested Kai Zan for dinner. As a restaurant manager and former oyster shucker have high sensitivity to how a restaurant smells and how the flow of the room translates into vibrations: Kai Zan was the most impressive restaurant I've been to all year for these attributes. Stepping off far West Chicago Ave, the… Continue reading Omakase
Month: June 2013
City Farm
I'm working on two videos and a third coming up on Sunday that say a little about local agriculture. I think if people understand how beautiful the practices of growing food are, that will make our food more compelling. Here is what I'm working on for City Farm. Etta and I went to the Logan… Continue reading City Farm
Catastrophic Loss
Ari and Suzanne and their friends spent a weekend eating Chicago: they had dinner at Frontera Grill on Thursday. The next day I catastrophically ripped the back of my pants in the middle of lunch service. I had just high-fived my chef because we were crushing a busy lunch. My pants got caught on the… Continue reading Catastrophic Loss


