{"id":488911,"date":"2010-03-30T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T12:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2010-03-30T08:15:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T12:15:12","slug":"chef%e2%80%99s-night-out-with-tom-colicchio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/488911","title":{"rendered":"Chef\u2019s Night Out with Tom Colicchio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 650px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2906\" title=\"colicchio.0404\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/03\/119.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Gillespie, Tom Colicchio and Richard Blais at Hong Kong Harbour (Curtis Compton, AJC)\" width=\"640\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Gillespie, Tom Colicchio and Richard Blais at Hong Kong Harbour (Curtis Compton, AJC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The diners at Craft &#8212; loosened with glass after glass of pinot noir, sated with roasted duck and sausage-wrapped lamb loin &#8212; broke into uproarious applause. They were as happy as pigs in pokes when <strong>Tom Colicchio<\/strong>, the chef and owner of the Craft family of restaurants, strolled out on the floor, mic in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Colicchio, whose role as head judge on the television series &#8220;Top Chef&#8221; has made him a national celebrity, shushes the crowd. He discusses the menu and makes gracious comments about the winemaker in attendance at this sold-out dinner. Then, guests rush forward, arms outstretched, including one woman in a floor-length black gown with a maelstrom of ruffles churning about her shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who made your dress?&#8221; Colicchio asks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chanel,&#8221; the woman answers, flattered.<\/p>\n<p>As Colicchio poses for pictures, a small posse begins forming by his side. In comes <strong>Kevin Maxey<\/strong>, who runs Craft Atlanta, and &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Gillespie, Tom Colicchio and Richard Blais at Hong Kong Harbour (Curtis Compton, AJC) The diners at Craft &#8212; loosened with glass after glass of pinot noir, sated with roasted duck and sausage-wrapped lamb loin &#8212; broke into uproarious applause. They were as happy as pigs in pokes when Tom Colicchio, the chef and owner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}