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Speaking of Ruth Reichl... Here's a nice slideshow she did for gourmet.com in October when the magazine named Alinea the best restaurant in the country... "a visual tour of highlights" from the Alinea menu: (http://www.epicurious.com/gourmet/features/50_best_restaurants). Full disclosure... I am the Gourmet web editor... but this small bit of self promotion seems pertinent to the conversation. I personally haven't eaten at Alinea yet... But it's on my list for my next visit to Chicago... Probably February... I've heard nothing but good things about the weather that time of year.

cofeywashere at 11:56AM on 12/28/06

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Alinea's Most Exciting Food

So Robert Brown, how was your meal at Alinea? Anything to report?

I agree that palate fatigue sounds like something silly, but I actually believe it's a sound concept. It's not that I tire of flavors necessarily, but I do experience them less as I eat more. The taste does diminish for me. When I only have a few bites, I really enjoy each bite equally.

megnut at 12:35PM on 01/03/07

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Good call Robert Brown re: "Palate fatigue". Ugh.

dkstar1 at 5:46PM on 01/02/07

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Some more Alinea porn, as well as some short vids and play by play podcasts of my 31-course tour with Ronnie "Ronnie_Suburban" Kaplan from eGullet (longest Alinea degustation to date) back in early june, and a Grant Achatz podcast:

http://offthebroiler.wordpress.com/2006/06/30/chicago-dining-alinea/

jperlow at 1:07AM on 12/30/06

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Nice! Thanks, Foodie Pam!

Adam Kuban at 6:01PM on 12/29/06

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If your interested the recipe for Alinea's Hot Potato Cold Potato is available at Project Foodie.

Foodie Pam at 5:18PM on 12/29/06

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What happened to " I can't get enough of it "? Palate fatigue is another self-serving, recently-coined catchphrase that doesn't mean anything. It's badly-made food that makes for tired, bored palates. I'll be at Alinea December 31 and if it does anything to me, I'll put in my two cents.

Robert Brown at 12:43AM on 12/29/06

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Here's a video of Alinea from Savory Chicago.
http://www.savorychicago.com

I haven't eaten at Alinea either but from what I can see - between Reichl's photos and Savory's video, it looks like a meal that a real foodie wouldn't want to miss. Definitely one for the list in '07

eatsalot at 1:30PM on 12/28/06