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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

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Meanwhile Tock, a reservations platform that should be in deep trouble as bookings for dine-in experiences go to zero, just raised $10 million. Depends how you count, I guess, but we have Alinea, which is the flagship, and we opened that in 2005. I saw their reservations go from 96% occupancy to zero. Clair Supper Club.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

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It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. This version was dyed with squid ink.)

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Feed the Rich, Save the Planet?

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Now, its mission is linked more than ever to fine dining destination Blue Hill at Stone Barns and a famous chef’s vision for trickle-down change. On the morning of February 7, 2020, office employees at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture filed one by one into meetings with management. Some came out crying. It was not a gentle pivot.