Hans Aeschbacher, Chicago chef known for Lawry's the Prime Rib and Smith & Wollensky, dies at 80

Hans Aeschbacher, Chicago chef known for Lawry's the Prime Rib, dies at 80

CHICAGO -- Chef Hans Aeschbacher – a Chicago culinary icon who served at as executive chef at Lawry's the Prime Rib, the United Center, and Smith & Wollensky steakhouse – died this week.Aeschbacher – known to many Chicagoans simply as 'Chef Hans' – was 80 years old. He passed away at the north suburban nursing home where he had been living, according to his Facebook page.Aeschbacher was born in 1944 in Tüscherz-Alfermée, Switzerland.

Aeschbacher cooked at the Century Plaza and the Forum sports arena in Los Angeles before arriving in Chicago – where he first worked as Chef de Cuisine at La Cheminee, a famous French restaurant formerly located at 1161 N. Dearborn St. in the Gold Coast.A Chicago Tribune noted that Aeschbacher took a detour to a Miami Beach restaurant that later failed – and then returned without a job in 1974 to Chicago, where he applied to Lawry's the Prime Rib.

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