A BLT for Chicago? Not quite...

Laurent Tourondel's BLT franchise has done so well in New York that he now has six of them: one for burgers, two for steak, two for fish and one for anything that's in season. For the chef to branch out and open BLT Chicago doesn't seem like a stretch.

News came today that we may get a taste of BLT—but not from chef Tourondel. Instead, his longtime collaborator, chef Stephen Wambach, who was the chef de cuisine at BLT Steak, is beating him to the punch. Wambach is opening an as-of-yet-unnamed restaurant at 112 West Hubbard Street. The concept: "Traditional-meets-progressive." (We were hoping for "BLT-meets-Chicago," but we'll take what we can get.)