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Grace’s $21 Tea Comes Extra in Chicago After $205 Tasting Menu
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Is there no multi-syllabic and preferably German psychological term to describe the angst, then resignation experienced upon realizing that green tea at Grace in Chicago costs $21? Burgers at other fine venues cost less.
It’s a scenario that prompts the same blank stares elicited when airport kiosks demand payment to check luggage when you fly coach. “You mean it’s not already included in the price?” It is not. Nor is Grace economy class; the two dinner menus, one vegetable-focused, cost $185. So take a few minutes, and maybe half a Xanax, and just deal with that. Then order the $21 pot.