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Check out the promo video for Next restaurant’s newest menu: Terroir

Posted by: Scott    Tags:  food, Next restaurant    Posted date:  September 8, 2015  |  No comment


Next released a video earlier today for its new menu—Terroir—which will be the restaurant’s fifteenth incarnation.

As anyone who knows me knows, I love, love, love Next. The amazing food is the main reason, of course. But there’s also the fact that Next is a culinary Brigadoon, here for a brief time, then gone, changing its theme three times a year. With most restaurants, you can always say, “Oh, I’ll head there some other time.” Not so with Next.

Miss a menu and you’ve lost your chance forever. Which, for me, gives each meal an added emotional resonance. It’s like tasting a dream.

Hyperbole? OK, sure, somewhat. But not by much. Which is why I made it to six of the fourteen menus Next has hosted so far.

But now comes Terroir, which has its first service tomorrow. And sadly, even if I were in Chicago, this is a meal I’d have to skip—it’s a wine-based menu, and since I don’t drink, its charms would be lost on me.

*Sniff*

Check out the video below, though, because if great wine plus great food is your kind of thing, you won’t want to miss Terroir.

If you’re unfamiliar with the sort of experience Next provides, check out my prior posts on their Sicily, Kyoto, The Hunt, Vegan, Bocuse d’Or, and Tapas menus.

As for what the future will bring, at this point … no one knows. The three menus for 2016 are still being conceived by the chefs, and likely won’t be announced until the first week of December.

One thing I do know, though. Next year, when the Nebula Awards will be once more be held in Chicago—I’ll be back at Next!





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