Saturday, March 3, 2012

SUNDAY LUNCH WITH...MICHAEL KORNICK 'I kept hoping my cuisine would define itself over time, but, instead, it gets foggier to me.'

Michael Kornick's famed Near North Side restaurant, MK, isn't openfor lunch. No matter, he says, he wouldn't have wanted to go thereanyway. It wouldn't be sporting.

And, besides, his not-quite-jovial tone seems to say, he is morethan just a chef-owner with a petty need to promote his few localrestaurants. He is a one-man enterprise, an industry powerhouse farbigger than his own kitchens.

Maybe too much bigger.

Kornick arrives at Naha--the sleek River North eatery in the spacethat used to house Gordon, where Kornick worked as a chef early inhis career--armed with a bottle of cranberry juice and a laundry listof special requests, as dictated by the strict diet he …

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