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Topic: A culinary bucket list:
‘101 Best Restaurants
in America’ |
A culinary bucket list:
‘101 Best Restaurants
in America’
New York Daily News, by Gina Pace
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/20/2013 6:34:48 PM
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| New Yorkers looking to eat in the best restaurants in the America are at quite an advantage. According to a ranking just released by the Daily Meal of the 101 Best Restaurants in America, 27 of the country´s top restaurants are in the Big Apple. The restaurants were chosen by a panel of 176 food critics, cookbook writers and others in the food business, said Colman Andrews, the editorial director of The Daily Meal. The results mix fine dining restaurants — like Eric Ripert´s swanky Le Bernardin, with affordable options like Shake Shack and SriPraPhai in Queens.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Hermoine, 2/20/2013 6:52:52 PM (No. 9187669)
Interesting...the top 10 list is mostly New York and the last ten Texas finally shows up a few times...not a one for Atlanta...and I happen to think we´ve got some excellent restaurants here.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX, 2/20/2013 7:02:48 PM (No. 9187678)
For 95% of them better bring beaucoup bucks. "Affordable" to NY´ers probably refers to the one percent.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
OBX Pete, 2/20/2013 7:14:28 PM (No. 9187690)
This list means nothing.
To pick the ´best restaurants in America´ one would have to try EVERY restaurant in America.
My guess is that the list is compiled by a bunch of snobs from a very limited number of cities.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
cgood, 2/20/2013 7:17:23 PM (No. 9187692)
What a coincidence. A bunch of NY restaurants are reported to be top-rated by a NY newspaper. Other than a few Chicago eateries, the middle of the country might as well not exist.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MMC, 2/20/2013 7:19:47 PM (No. 9187695)
If I had a restaurant, i waould want to be on Diners, dives, and Drive-ins with Guy Fieri (sp?)
A great restaurant is afordable, tasty, comfort, and homey...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bamapreacher, 2/20/2013 7:31:11 PM (No. 9187715)
#1, I know Atlanta has a number of excellent restaurants, especially Bones, but for my tastes I would choose The Varsity hands down just like I would choose Dreamland barbeque over most of the New York restaurants. Taste is all in the tastebuds of the eater.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
balogreene, 2/20/2013 7:38:04 PM (No. 9187728)
I´m disappointed. I´ve eaten at four of the restaurants in NYC. I had hoped I´d eaten at none of them.
MiniBar in DC is $250 per person, who would want to eat there? If you can go to Yelp and look it up.
But, some of the most famous restaurants in NYC didn´t make the list. Elaine´s, 21, etc. I´ve always heard they weren´t good.
One of my favorite restaurants in the DC area is Windy City Red Hots. Chicago hot dogs from a truck. Heaven for an ex-Chicagoan.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
SteelTurman, 2/20/2013 7:43:26 PM (No. 9187732)
Thank you for that OP.
Brought back some memories and inspired.
I love food and might have been a chef ...
... but how can you take money for something you love?
That´s like prostitution to me.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Hermoine, 2/20/2013 7:51:35 PM (No. 9187747)
BTW, I went to Le Bernardin and it´s not even on my top 10 list...way to fussy and pretentious and the food was not particularly inspiring or unique.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dragonslayer2, 2/20/2013 7:56:08 PM (No. 9187754)
Wot? No mention of Pompilio´s in Newport, Kentucky where a scene from "The Rain Man" was shot? Don´t pick at it until you have tried it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Quaestio, 2/20/2013 8:04:30 PM (No. 9187769)
Best restaurant I´ve ever been to is Gary Danko in San Francisco. The only thing wrong with it is that it´s in SF. I keep hoping the chef will relocate. I´ve been to some of the restaurants on the list and none come close. I know friends who have been to the French Laundry, and although it is an experience, they prefer GD as well. If you find yourself there, it is worth a stop. If you don´t have a reservation you can eat at the bar, and they will treat you like a long lost friend. The staff know more about wine and cheese than I ever will, but they are not pretentious.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kanphil, 2/20/2013 8:10:28 PM (No. 9187777)
Like all "best of" lists, this one is made to generate comment and controversy. This one certainly succeeds in that respect.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ualslosar, 2/20/2013 8:19:10 PM (No. 9187787)
Red Mills burgers in Seattle!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 2/20/2013 8:24:09 PM (No. 9187789)
Ldotters get it.
I look over this list and I see a very large entreé plate with a serving size on it that makes one wish they´d ordered an appetizer instead. A little swirl of some sauce, and a single carrot or asparagus spear. All for the budget price of $48.
Forget that. Give me some FOOD, for starters. Some value. A steak should taste like beef, and potatoes should taste like spuds.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 2/20/2013 8:34:33 PM (No. 9187804)
If Spumoni Gardens isn´t on the list - - then the list is worthless.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Italiano, 2/20/2013 8:45:00 PM (No. 9187813)
The best steak I´ve ever had was at the Feed Lot in Cuba, Missouri. They even gave me a T-Shirt.
It didn´t make the list.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby, 2/20/2013 8:56:13 PM (No. 9187826)
Where´s Whataburger!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bubber, 2/20/2013 11:07:32 PM (No. 9188043)
Old South Barbeque, Steak n Shake, Waffle House, Varsity, Colonnade for Atlanta...a gazillion places anywhere near the gulf coast or Atlantic SEAboard....
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