Owners: Nick Kokonas and Grant Achatz
Chef: Grant Achatz
Cuisine: Parisian
The Buzz: One of the most anticipated restaurant openings in America, from molecular gastronomy chef Grant Achatz, best known for Alinea. Next transform into an entirely different restaurants every three months and diners must buy tickets to get a table. The first iteration is Paris 1906, with a menu drawn of turn-of-the-century cuisine: truffled custard with black truffle shavings, poached cucumber stuffed with chicken mousse wrapped in pork, lamb rilletes, sliced loin and sweetbread course. Mike Sula of the Chicago Reader wrote that the “heavy, exquisitely rich food is so far removed from current culinary practice it might as well be totally new again.”