Charlie Trotter's to auction restaurant contents
Charlie Trotter's to auction restaurant contents
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Charlie Trotter's to auction restaurant contents
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Post #1 - December 3rd, 2012, 9:14 amHome cooks and collectors looking to be a bit like Charlie Trotter can soon own a piece of his defunct restaurant.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/ ... z2E0CKU5FcNever order barbecue in a place that also serves quiche - Lewis Grizzard
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Post #2 - December 13th, 2012, 3:02 pmSeems there were some fireworks! A Sun Times photographer was asked to leave the auction, and the Trib's Mark Caro was kicked out during a preview the previous day.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/16975546-418/trotter-gets-testy-at-restaurant-auction.html
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Post #3 - December 13th, 2012, 3:10 pmAnd he pulled the plug on the auction about one-third of the way into it.
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Post #4 - December 13th, 2012, 3:45 pmHi- Out of all the items that did go up for auction, a lot of them did not receive a bid, and the table in the kitchen that customers ate at, only went for $200. The auction house doesn't know if the auction will be rescheduled. Apparently Christies auctioned off his wine collection recently, and it went for $1.1 million dollars.
Thanks, Nancy
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Post #5 - December 14th, 2012, 11:18 pmAm I the only one who has had enough of the entire Charlie Trotter act?
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Post #6 - December 15th, 2012, 7:52 amthick wrote:Am I the only one who has had enough of the entire Charlie Trotter act?
I thought his auction hissy fit was very entertaining.Steve Z.
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
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Post #7 - December 15th, 2012, 10:22 amI have no opinion about how the auction was handled, but I'm with Charlie Trotter (and Mike Gebert) when it comes to Mark Caro."Your swimming suit matches your eyes, you hold your nose before diving, loving you has made me bananas!"
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Post #8 - December 15th, 2012, 10:47 amI have no opinion about how the auction was handled, but I'm with Charlie Trotter (and Mike Gebert) when it comes to Mark Caro.
So, do think that the Sun-Times photographer deserved to be 86'ed, too, for trying to do his job?
And while Gebert is entitled to his opinion (and you to yours), I think he's being more than a little disingenuous on this matter.
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Post #9 - December 15th, 2012, 11:02 am
I don't have an opinion about that either.sundevilpeg wrote:So, do think that the Sun-Times photographer deserved to be 86'ed, too, for trying to do his job?
Gebert, you mean? I agree with the content of the article I linked to. Whether and how he's being disingenuous, I don't know. I just think that Caro, and by extension the Tribune, treated Trotter very poorly in that three-part series, and I'm not at all surprised that Trotter feels the same way.And while Gebert is entitled to his opinion (and you to yours), I think he's being more than a little disingenuous on this matter."Your swimming suit matches your eyes, you hold your nose before diving, loving you has made me bananas!"
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Post #10 - December 15th, 2012, 10:25 pmThe Sun-Times article is confusing. It says that framed photographs were selling for $275, until Trotter got up and said the frames alone were worth $250 let alone the original photos, at which point the crowd, properly chastened by Trotter's remarks, starting buying the framed photogrpahs for $275.
Unless I just don't understand what they're saying.
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Post #11 - August 29th, 2013, 9:38 pmThe ever charming Mr. Trotter is back in the news.
http://wgntv.com/2013/08/29/parents-stu ... -art-show/For what we choose is what we are. He should not miss this second opportunity to re-create himself with food. Jim Crace "The Devil's Larder"
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Post #12 - August 29th, 2013, 10:23 pmWow! Hope CT can get some help soon
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Post #13 - August 29th, 2013, 10:32 pmSo sad to see this happen. I caught this story on WGN tonight and they left out in the online write-up that nearly all kids' possessions were left in the restaurant when they were kicked out, not just their art.
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Post #14 - August 29th, 2013, 10:34 pmmhill95149 wrote:Wow! Hope CT can get some help soon
You're not kidding, he really looks run down.
Regards,Cathy2
"You'll be remembered long after you're dead if you make good gravy, mashed potatoes and biscuits." -- Nathalie Dupree
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Post #15 - August 29th, 2013, 10:51 pmCathy2 wrote:mhill95149 wrote:Wow! Hope CT can get some help soon
You're not kidding, he really looks run down.
Regards,
Ouch. It kind of reminded me of this moment from Trading Places . . .
=R=By protecting others, you save yourself. If you only think of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself. --Kambei Shimada
Every human interaction is an opportunity for disappointment --RS
There's a horse loose in a hospital --JM
That don't impress me much --Shania Twain
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Post #16 - August 30th, 2013, 6:31 amHopefully those kids don't plan on eating at G.E.B. in the near future.
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Post #17 - August 30th, 2013, 6:35 amSo sad. From the still frame of the video, I thought he was a wino who wandered into the reporter's camera shot.
I wonder what kind of wine he's been washing back the White Castles with.
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Post #18 - August 30th, 2013, 9:00 amThat story was unbelievable! He had the world at his fingertips...
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Post #19 - August 30th, 2013, 4:13 pmTell you what. He'll be the best chef in rehab.
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Post #20 - August 31st, 2013, 6:50 pmFrom a friend who worked for him for some years.I read a further more detailed report on the Trotter's incident.
He says that they were leaving trash on the floor and making messes in the bathrooms.
When he told the ASM instructor of the students that he needed to make the students clean up after themselves (specifically sweeping the floor and cleaning the bathrooms) both the instructor and the students vocally refused in an impolite manner.
Remembering how much Trotter valued everything about that space, I have to say I doubt he is lying.
Interestingly the two direct quotes from students about what he said were things he said all the time for years 1) if anyone went to get themselves something from a store we were instructed that it was very rude to not offer to pick up things for others while there. 2) he always joked (with anyone that had a tattoo) that he would give them something special (rare bottle of wine, free dinner for their parents, etc) if they got a Trotter logo tattoo "but it can't be anywhere obscene).
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Post #21 - August 31st, 2013, 10:13 pmIt is "sad" for the recipients of this behavior. This is not sad in any way for CT.
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Post #22 - September 1st, 2013, 3:55 pmI'm not sure I feel very sympathetic to Mr. Trotter even after reading his own version of the incident. Maybe asking them to sweep some leaves up from the stoop isn't so bad, but "a quick wipe around the rim of the toilets"? And his remark about the more important story the journalists should be covering is unfortunate at best.
Charlie Trotter Defends HimselfAnthony Bourdain on Barack Obama: "He's from Chicago, so he knows what good food is."
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Post #23 - September 1st, 2013, 5:19 pmI'm sorry, but this sanitized version from Charlie Trotter falls flat when one sees the video. He appears to be either intoxicated or overmedicated; his behavior as shown in the TV video isn't the 'rational' person in the "fix" rendition above.
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