Alter (Restaurant of the Year)

This is not comfort food. Quite the opposite. [Chef Bradley Kilgore, a] Kansas City native who cheffed alongside Laurent Gras, Grant Achatz and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, creates dishes that are exacting, stunningly beautiful, disciplined and, for some, challenging. Indicative of Kilgore’s style is a deceptively simple soft egg coddled to just warmed through and served in a shallow bowl. Spoon through the ethereal scallop foam to a disc of crisp Gruyere and tiny tapioca-like truffle pearls.

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