Slideshow: The Finely Crafted Comfort Food at Guildhall in
Glencoe  Christian Ragano is happy. Unnaturally happy for a
chef, a breed who normally manage to be a bit beat down with
work even in the excitement of opening their dream place. But
Ragano, former chef de cuisine of NoMI and then chef at the
Grand Hyatt, is like a man throwing a party every night at
Glencoe's Guildhall, open now for about a month. He loves that
he has skylights, actual natural light, in his kitchen ("I don't
have to take an elevator seven stories to see sunlight"). He's
excited by his 6000-pound woodburning oven, which is not for
pizza, as he'll explain. He's happy about his staff, some of
whom came from NoMI (via other jobs in the meantime), and about
his partners, who clearly spent freely and smartly to produce
the elegantly industrial interior (designed by 555). And he
likes his customers, admitting that the menu is tailored to an
older suburban crowd, but happy that they surprise him sometimes
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