Charlie Trotters in Mexico

[inventolux]

Check out this web site. Click on the dining section.

[ballast_regime]

One of my favorite chefs combined with a beautiful country and the worst restaurant designer ever should make for an interesting mix.

IML

[docsconz]

Will he use local ingredients or have them shipped in?

[inventolux]

Will he use local ingredients or have them shipped in?

Guillermo Tellez (CT's first chef de cuisine) will be heading up the kitchen. He incorporates a lot of mexican ingredients/techniques into his cuisine so the menu will be sort of a mexicanesque/ct style. I assume the ingredients will follow the same CT tradition; obtain all of the top ingredients from around the world reguardless of cost.

[Lady T]

Tihany vs. Trotter. Talk about the immovable vs. the irresistible (and don't ask me which role I assign to whom, please!)...I expect to hear the infighting all the way up here in Chicago.

[inventolux]

Tihany vs. Trotter.  Talk about the immovable vs. the irresistible (and don't ask me which role I assign to whom, please!)...I expect to hear the infighting all the way up here in Chicago.

Im not sure I follow your statement.

[Lady T]

Based on the Tihany-designed restaurants I have seen (long on concept and often short on workability for the staff or comfort for the customers) -- and on what I have seen of Chef Trotter's preference for spaces that stay mostly out of the way of the cuisine aesthetically -- I anticipate that there will be a fairly intense clash of visions. Based on what I know of the two individuals, I anticipate that neither will back down quickly or easily. Watching two much-regarded geniuses butt heads, so to speak, is likely to be amusing and/or educational, I believe.

Does that help?

[inventolux]

Based on the Tihany-designed restaurants I have seen (long on concept and often short on workability for the staff or comfort for the customers) -- and on what I have seen of Chef Trotter's preference for spaces that stay mostly out of the way of the cuisine aesthetically -- I anticipate that there will be a fairly intense clash of visions.  Based on what I know of the two individuals, I anticipate that neither will back down quickly or easily.  Watching two much-regarded geniuses butt heads, so to speak, is likely to be amusing and/or educational, I believe.

Does that help?

Interesting point.