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With the celebrity status bestowed upon chefs (Thank you, Food Network), it's hardly a surprise that Chicago's top toques get the play they do. Of course, it certainly doesn't hurt to have smoldering good looks. It gets people talking and the tables booked. Here, find four guys and one gal who prove where the heat really is: in the kitchen.
Photo credit: Radhika Desai courtesy of Bravo
On this page:Michael McDonald - onesixty blue, Chris Turano - Dine, Phillip Foss - Lockwood, Chad Starling - Le Lan, Radhika Desai - Between Boutique Cafe and Lounge.
Michael McDonald - onesixty blue
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one sixtyblue
Read Reviews160 N Loomis St, Chicago, IL 60607 (map)
Of McDonald's chicken and biscuits, a local food blogger opined, "The top of a 2-bite biscuit was covered lightly with a creamy, thinned foie gras. Sausage gravy is dog food compared to this sauce. It sank right into the crumbling pastry, filling in all of the buttery nooks, and upon touching the tongue, melted away." If that isn't a compliment, then here's one more: Chef, you're smokin'. You can put together a tasting menu for us anytime, even if it?s just a thinly veiled ploy to get you to visit our table more often.
Chris Turano - Dine
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Dine
Read Reviews733 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60661 (map)
Now here's a chef you would have happily taken home to mama. If those steel blue eyes and quiet confidence don't do it for you, then his Black Angus meatloaf and moist black velvet cake will. We love a man with a soft spot for comfort food.
Phillip Foss - Lockwood
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Lockwood Restaurant and Bar
Read Reviews17 E Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60603 (map)
It takes a real man to rock the close-shaven scalp and the dragon shirt, but Foss does both. And he cooks, too. Find him at the elegant Palmer House Hilton restaurant, working his magic on ingredients like figs, bacon and foie gras.
Chad Starling - Le Lan
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Le Lan
Read Reviews749 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60610 (map)
As executive chef of Le Lan, Starling dazzles guests with the delicate and the sweet, the sour and the spicy--all flavors characteristic of Vietnamese cuisine. The boyish good looks definitely fall into the sweet category and the spiky hair makes us lick our lips for more spice.
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