AMERICA’S TOP-RATED

RESTAURANTS & CHEFS 2008
These restaurants were selected by John Mariani as America’s Top 20 Restaurants 2008
(not in order of preference). The content of this overview was written by the editorial
staff of the Chefs In America Awards Foundation.

CHARLIE TROTTER’S

SAMPLE MENU

Grand Menu
Japanese Hamachi with Daikon & Seawater
Maine Day Boat Lobster with Yellow Beets, Chestnuts & Bull’s Blood

Kumamoto Oysters with Pork Belly, Fingerling Potato & Pickled Celery

Whole Roasted Squab Breast with Birch, Black Trumpet Mushrooms & Devil’s Club

Roasted Four Story Hill Veal Loin with Date, Ginger Bread & Pomegranate
Satsuma with Clove & Sauternes
Honey Crisp Apples with Cider Granite & Ginger Jelly

Black Mission Figs with Shaved Fruit Cake, Marcona Almonds & Pedro Ximenez

RESTAURANT
Charlie Trotter's is regarded as one of the finest restaurants in the world. For 21 years, the restaurant has dedicated itself to excellence in the culinary arts. Charlie Trotter's Restaurant is innovative and progressive in the world of food and wine and has been instrumental in establishing new standards for fine dining worldwide.

The restaurant is recognized by a variety of prestigious national and international institutions. Including membership in Traditions & Qualité . This Mobil Five Star, AAA Five Diamond award winning restaurant has won 10 James Beard Foundation awards, including “Outstanding Restaurant” (2000) and “Outstanding Chef” (1999). Wine Spectator named the restaurant “The Best Restaurant in the World for Wine & Food” (1998) and “America's Best Restaurant” (2000). Wine Enthusiast named it “America’s Best Wine Driven Restaurant” (2006) and it has been voted one of the “World’s 50 Best Restaurants” by Restaurant Magazine since 2004.

CHEF CHARLIE TROTTER
Michelin Starred Chef Trotter is the author of 14 cookbooks, three management books, and is the host of the nationally aired, award winning PBS cooking series, The Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter.

In addition to his namesake restaurant, Chef Trotter owns and operates Trotter's To Go, a gourmet retail shop in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago and also produces a line of organic-based food products. Chef Trotter has received awards at the White House from both President Bush and Colin Powell for his work with his Culinary Education Foundation and was named one of only five 'heroes' to be honored by Colin Powell's charity, Americas Promise.