"Chef-owner Patrick Kriss of Alo Food Group has amassed an empire of restaurants across the city, starting with his flagship fine-dining enterprise Alo in 2015. While it’s still notoriously challenging to land a reservation there, sister spot Aloette is more accessible and friendlier on the pocketbook. Kriss’s oxymoronic “upscale diner” features burgers, fries, and other usual suspects, but everything is finessed and fancified. The fried chicken is laced with yuzu honey; parfaits are engorged with foie gras; and golden spuds are zhuzhed up with bloody mary aioli." - Tiffany Leigh