Alinea Comes to New York, at Last

Photo: Lanna Apisukh

Rain came down in sheets on the opening night of the month-long residency of Alinea at Olmsted. Grant Achatz’s high-caliber, hypertechnical Chicago restaurant Alinea turned 20 years old this year, and since Greg Baxtrom, chef of Brooklyn’s Olmsted, had been there at the very beginning, Achatz was visiting his mentee to celebrate. “I began thinking how many people have come through the restaurant and gone on to do amazing things,” Achatz explains. “I wanted to involve the alumni.