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charlie trotters

Charlie Trotter's

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  • Reviewed

Essential Information

Street Address 816 W Armitage
Chicago, IL
Phone773-248-6228
Website URL www.charlietrotters.com/

Charlie Trotter’s food continues to thrill at a most rarified level. Instead of staging fashionably staggering pyrotechnics, he delights with gloriously subtle flavors on his never-repeated menus. The grand menu ($165) elevates common luxuries (scallops, squab, bison) with novel ingredients, like Alaskan licorice and candied espresso. The vegetable menu ($135) abounds in creativity (olive-oil-poached turnips with trumpet royale mushrooms), and desserts sparkle with the finest Claudio Corallo chocolate and touches such as pandan leaf and chorizo. Endless gems from four wine cellars. Book the kitchen table far ahead ($225/person).

Additional Information

Rating: 4 stars

Price: $50-plus

Cuisine: Contemporary

Neighborhood: Lincoln Park

Noteworthy:
3 or more vegetarian items
dress code
telephone reservations
wheelchair accessible

Dishes We Liked:


(All dishes are part of a prix fixe menu.) Day-boat lobster with red curry and pomelo, roasted-chestnut soup with wild rice and apple cider reduction, bison tenderloin and bison blood sausage with quinoa and candied espresso, allspice streusel with yogurt gelato and kumquats, chocolate brioche with reduced maple ice cream and caramelized popcorn

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Dish: see "Trotter, in Reviews" January 2012

Hours: D Tue-Sat.

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