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Grant Achatz Is the Second Best Chef in the Country, According to Bourdain

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Anthony Bourdain may not always have the nicest words for Alinea (“lethally self-serious, usually pointless, silly, annoying, and generally joyless. It was, for me, a misery from beginning to end”), but he has nothing but kind things to say about its chef, Grant Achatz. Talking with the Seattle Times, Bourdain was asked who he thought the best American chef after Thomas Keller was, and he responded, “Possibly Grant Achatz (in Chicago) … as far as sheer talent, he has to be in the running.” [Seattle Times]

Grant Achatz Is the Second Best Chef in the Country, According to Bourdain