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The
Changeup
The latest fromChicago’s
reigning chef takes menu
reinvention to the Next level
BYWAYNE CURTIS
JUST INSIDE
the front door of Next,
a restaurant in Chicago’s burgeoning
FultonMarket district, is a stripped-down dining area
that reminds one of a waiting room. With vaguely
brown décor and not much in the way of frills, it
seems like a place you’d pass through en route to
somewhere more exotic rather than a destination
unto itself—which is entirely the point. Once seated,
diners embark on a journey to a place that is decidedly
not
Fulton Market.
Other than being helmed by Grant Achatz, the
three-Michelin-starred chef of theworld-renowned
NOT THE
SAME OLD
A classic lamb
dish reinterpreted
for the 1906 Paris
menu at Next
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