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, ...

Grant Achatz's net worth in 2024 is quite high, and since appearing on The Bear—set in Chicago where his famous Alinea restaurant is based—it's likely only going to get higher. The award-winning chef, ...

More than two decades ago, Grant Achatz — the visionary chef behind Chicago’s Alinea and The Aviary restaurants — noticed a little white dot on his tongue. Being in his early 30s, experts told him ...

A typical 23-course meal at Chicago's Alinea restaurant might include olive oil lollypops, sweet potatoes skewered by smoking cinnamon sticks, strips of bacon hanging from a stainless steel bow, and ...

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.

Alinea chef (and arguably the greatest chef in America) Grant Achatz was in town last night at the Institute of Culinary Education to promote his just-released memoir, Life on the Line. In a ...

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Michelin-starred Alinea is going on tour. The restaurant, helmed by chef Grant Achatz, will have stints in Brooklyn, N.Y., Miami, and Beverly Hills, Calif., over the ...

Alinea’s Michelin-starred chef Grant Achatz is teaming up with Milk Bar for a Chicago-exclusive space-themed sundae available this week only at the dessert shop's outpost in Fulton Market. The sundae ...

Last season, the FX series featured a parade of Hollywood celebrities. In the new one, it’s showing off its food-world credibility with a series of cameos from star chefs. By Esther Zuckerman Durante ...

Nick Kokonas, co-owner of The Alinea Group, said Monday on X he had sold his ownership of the restaurant group to an investor group led by Chicagoan Jason Weingarten. The group’s flagship restaurant, ...