And then after leaving French Laundry to become head chef at Evanston, Ill.
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In The French Laundry Cookbook, culinary lion Thomas Keller offers a tomato sorbet recipe served with a tomato tartare.
The place is owned by the Schmitt family, refugees from Napa Valley whose previous business was the famed restaurant The French Laundry.
If he has solved the mystery of Loch Ness, or washed dishes at The French Laundry, it's never been written about.
Understated and modern, Corey Lee's Benu exudes the gravitas you'd expect from the former chef de cuisine at Thomas Keller's the French Laundry.
But many of the world's most talented chefs, such as the French Laundry's Thomas Keller, are firm believers in an open approach to innovation.
Between them, the chefs have worked at some of the world's best restaurants, including Noma, Alinea, the Fat Duck, Craft and the French Laundry.
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What chef Keller is doing at the French Laundry is lavishing his guests with small portions of big flavors in meticulously prepared multi-course dinners.
Achatz got to visit El Bulli while working at French Laundry, was blown away, and the innovative nature of the food set his mind racing.
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Keller is, arguably, the most high-profile chef in The U.S. the only restaurateur to run a pair of three-Michelin-starred restaurants, The French Laundry and Per Se, simultaneously.
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Peek, backed by seed funding from SV Angel, Khosla Ventures, Jack Dorsey and Eric Schmidt, launched in October with a feature called Perfect Days, where celebrities such as Tory Burch, Piers Morgan and French Laundry Chef Timothy Hollingsworth, could suggest favorite things to do in a city.
Aside from being seasonally apt, the dish perfectly articulated Benu's point of view: With the torchon, he was referencing his past at the French Laundry (there's a signature foie gras au torchon on that institution's menu), and with the Japanese ankimo and cherry blossom, he was mining the legacy of the city's substantial East and Southeast Asian populations.
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