Details Emerge on Upcoming TÊTE Charcuterie

TÊTE Charcuterie will (hopefully) open in November and details on the menu are starting to come out. The restaurant, in the planning stages for more than a year, will hit Chicago's famed Restaurant Row (1114 W. Randolph) and will seat sixty-four guests in the restaurant as well as feature an additional twelve seats at a glass-enclosed charcuterie bar. The design promises to be industrial but bright, feature communal and smaller tables, loud rock music, an open kitchen replete with stainless-steel Viking equipment, and a glass-enclosed charcuterie room.

Co-executive chefs Thomas Rice and Kurt Guzowski's menu is inspired by charcuteries and boucheries in France. They plan to feature cured meats (finocchiona with fennel seed, fennel pollen and red wine), terrines and pates (fromage de TÊTE Charcuterie, a house specialty head cheese), and international sausages (smoked boudin blanc with savoy cabbage kraut from France).

But the restaurant will not be relegated to just meat. So they will also include dishes such as big-eye tuna salad with granny smith apple, kaffir lime puree and Japanese seven spice; diver scallop ceviche calamansi with pickled lily bulb and garlic chive blossom served in the shell on ice; and warm sunchoke confit salad with savoy cabbage, chicory, tangerine, pain d'epice and black truffle.

An extensive craft beer list, spirits program and international wine list will also be featured (the hunt is on for a beverage director).
· A first look at Tete Charcuterie [Crain's]
· All TÊTE Charcuterie Coverage [-ECHI-]
· TÊTE Charcuterie [Official Site]