And you are here why?

"5-8-8 2-3-hundred. Em-PIRE!" 'Toews"

Update :  We went back for one final dinner at Trotters, and it was a disaster of Epic proportions .  Of almost Lucas-ian " rewriting your memories " proportions.  The bottom line - I doubt I'll be missing Trotter's much.  C'est la vie... The Sun-Times reports that Charlie Trotter's is closing after 25 years - definitely the ending of an era in Chicago food culture.  Chicago had fine-dining before him, and there certainly be alta cuisine after him, but he changed the restaurant landscape in America in a way that few have managed to do.  Along with Alice Waters and Thomas Keller, he is one of a select pantheon of chefs who are to restaurant culture what Bill Walsh was to Football, someone whose approach and ideas were so influential that we unquestioningly accept them as part and parcel of the way things are , and whose family tree incorporates pretty much anybody who is anybody on the American food scene.    Over the years that we lived...