- Michael Gebert
- Chef Erik Anderson at an El Ideas collaborative dinner in 2013
Imagine if there were a day when crazy stuff right out of Wackyland could be reported as real news. That’s what it’s been like in Chicago the last day or so! Chefs leaving, chefs coming, chefs getting awards, places closing, pranks backfiring . . .
• A Chicago-born chef is coming to Intro—to preview his restaurant that will be in Minneapolis! The second guest chef to helm the upscale pop-up spot Intro, located where L2O used to be, has been announced: he’s Erik Anderson, a former Chicagoan who came to fame at Nashville’s the Catbird Seat, where he and cochef Josh Habiger won Food & Wine‘s best new chef in 2012. He’s opening a place in Minneapolis called Brut, but we’ll get a first taste when his gig starts in May. Here’s a piece about a dinner he did at El Ideas a year or so ago. (Chicago Tribune)
