Alinea ***

On Sunday December 5th 2010, Ric, a fellow intern from Charlie Trotter's and I went embarked on what is called the best restaurant in the United States- Alinea.

I had called a month and a half in advance, I knew I had wanted to go there as soon I as I got to Chicago. I told them I worked at Trotters and got the hookup. We got a few extra courses and some Champagne and some wine on the house.

Pictured are the Edible drinks which are:

Passion Fruit-Flor de cana 4year, matusalem clasico, sailor jerry

Lemon-Luxardo bitter, luxardo amaro, grapefruit

Apple-Laird's apple brandy, grenadine, thyme

Squash-Cynar, carpano antica, flor de cana 7 year

Kumquat- rittenhouse rye, peychaud's, demerara

Next was Chao Tom- Sugar Cane, Shrimp, Mint

Next was Bass-Black Pepper, Vanilla, Lemon

The next picture is- Canard a la cussy from Escoffier

The first picture is of the famous Chocolate Dessert- it's plated on the table with red wine soaked blueberrys, honey and peanut.

It was an amazing meal!!! There were a few misses, but overall it was totally worth it.