As you all know, our favorite Chicago hedge fund is back in the game but luckily for the hostages investors Ken Griffin isn’t taking any chances, and if he gets a car and an airplane with 6 hours fuel standing by at the airport or Fed guy on his staff NOW he wont start throwing assets out the window one at a time with a bullet in them. We’re told K to the G, along with wife Anne, shared an intimate dinner with Randy Kroszner, recently retired Governor of the Federal Reserve, last night at Alinea in Chicago. Apparently on the agenda: “art, wine, debt markets and job offers,” the latter presumably being for Kros (and his rolodex) to come help out in Chi-town, though we do like the idea of KG taking up public service, and Secretary of the Treasury is probably out, on account of the tax issue.*
*Just messing, you know we’ve got nothing but love for Kenny-boy.
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From Wiki…Alinea is known to serve 20 or so small courses over a period of hours. According to reports, it is not uncommon to hear customers audibly cry out during meals due to an unexpected delight of flavor
Alinea is so fcking overrated it kills me. Wanna hear what 2 of my courses were on the tasting menu? 1 course was a frozen drop of olive oil. Another course was a strip of bacon hanging on a metal wire.
hahhah was just going to ask “what did they eat?”
Strip of bacon on metal wire and frozen drop of olive oil. How creative. What gastronomic dipshit concocts such truckstop fare?
@bess, consistent with the comment regarding 4th grade…
“he wont start throwing assets out the widow one at a time”
pwnage
Ugliest BB Homepage: Merrill Lynch (apparently unable to design the main site as nice as the IBD and individual investor site).
Ugliest Overall Site: Bank of Amerrillwide
Worst Name: Citicorp
Most Undecided Name: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. or Goldman, Sachs & Co. (not sure which).
kill yourself@5
@5- only people who have 1 inch dicks consider pointing out a missing letter “pwnage.”
@2 Alinea absolutely blows Trotter’s and Moto out of the water. How this wasn’t one of the best meals of your life simply amazes me.
@2. “Alinea is so fcking overrated it kills me.” Nice. Alinea fucks it’s customers, the way it’s customers fuck their investors/speculator’s. Feed em crap but dress it up.
Alinea is garbage. Trotter’s is better, but I like the Chop House or Joe’s Stone Crab better than Alinea or Trotter’s.
At least at Trotters you leave full. Can’t say the same for Alinea.
“Alinea is a restaurant in Chicago which opened in 2005. In 2006, it was named the best restaurant in America by Gourmet in its 2006 top 50 feature.[1] Its chef / owner, Grant Achatz, is famed for his inventive preparations and deconstructions of classic flavors, as well as his constantly rotating menu.[2] It has included a peanut butter and jelly composed of a single, peeled grape, still on the stem, encased in peanut butter and wrapped in paper-thin brioche.”
this place should be burned to the ground.
such arbiters of taste on this site … honestly, who gives a crap about where or what they ate?? Alinea created a new type of cuisine and though it might not be to everyone’s liking, at least it wasn’t the same old boring food that is served in every city in America.
the people who comment on this site just prove over and over that money can’t buy class (or taste)
no wonder MCD is rocking
@14- um, quite the contrary. Alinea is overpriced shit, and the commenters are calling it out for that. Just because it’s expensive, doesn’t mean it’s good.
Tru and Trotters blow Alinea away. Im sorry but dressing up tiny food in wonderful colors does not make for Haute cuisine. Achatz is also very proud of his machine that freezes the olive oil drops.
Spare me.
Should we be adding Alinea to the “Two for Eight” list?
http://nymag.com/tags/Two%20for%20Eight
@17- 2 for 8 is relegated to restaurants in new york, so no.
@12 Agreed that you leave full at Trotters, but Chuckie being such a condescending d-bag really detracts from the whole experience.
Denny’s gave me a free grand slam breakfast the other day. I am special.
I’m selling Alinea and buying Tru
CHICAGO IS A WANNABE TOWN IN ALL ASPECTS – Second City
@22 where you from?
@22, sure. I was gonna say something in response. Too busy right now WORKING. Good luck with the job search.
Arb on LaSalle
Tru rules
@ 22, no clue. Go back to your dorm room.
@25@23@24 – Please go through a list of how you think Chicago is not just a meat-head floor trader town. I guarantee I can shoot down each item on your list of why that place is full of Wannabe’s.
randall is a good egg. taught at u of c
Or as Anil Kashyap calls him, RANDY!
too second city, didn’t read.
I’ll take Gold Coast char dogs any day – and @ 26, you are an idiot. Sounds as if the only Chicago you’ve seen is from a TV trailer for some movie filmed on Lower Wacker.