Gastronomical adventures in the windy city are often only attributed to Alinea, Next and Charlie Trotters. Unbeknownst to most is a little hub of innovation and madness called Moto, with the Willy Wonka-esque Homaro Cantu, serving up a style of food only a handful of people the world over are actually masters of, with impersonators a plenty - a cuisine formerly known as Molecular Gastronomy and what I like to refer to as ‘surreal’. Located near the top end of the meat-packing district, one wonders, whilst walking there, who on Earth would have a restaurant in this neighbourhood – isolated, stark, empty, but then half way down on the other side of the road, cafe’s, bars, restaurants all start showing their cheery heads and one promptly walks straight past Moto before checking the building numbers or Google maps and swiftly turning around and hunting down the front door and finding it located right beside Next/Aviary and feeling a slight glow of happiness, especially as there happened to be a table booked for drinks at Aviary later in the evening!
June 11, 2012
Moto, Chicago
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Tags: 1 Star, Chicago, Experimental, Homaro Cantu, molecular gastronomy, Moto, Surreal, tasting menu
