http://www.thedailymeal.com/101-best...urants-america

I've only eaten at a very few. I wish I were filthy rich, I'd spend
a couple of years traveling around and sample all of them.

ImStillMags wrote:
> http://www.thedailymeal.com/101-best...urants-america
>
> I've only eaten at a very few. I wish I were filthy rich, I'd spend
> a couple of years traveling around and sample all of them.

I've been to two of these this year alone! McCrady's and Gallatoires.
Woohoo!

My beloved Frontera didn't make the list this time.

ImStillMags > wrote in

..com:

> http://www.thedailymeal.com/101-best...urants-america
>
> I've only eaten at a very few. I wish I were filthy rich,
> I'd spend a couple of years traveling around and sample all of
> them.

I've never even seen one of them. LOL!!

Also noticed these links the

10 Most Pointless Salad Ingredients by Valaer Murray
http://www.thedailymeal.com/10-most-...ad-ingredients

What's Good At Trader Joe's? by Arthur Bovino
http://www.thedailymeal.com/whats-good-trader-joes-0

8 Foods Not to Cook Naked by Yasmin Fahr
http://www.thedailymeal.com/8-foods-not-cook-naked

On May 10, 6:42*pm, ImStillMags > wrote:
> http://www.thedailymeal.com/101-best...urants-america
>
> I've only eaten at a very few. * I wish I were filthy rich, I'd spend
> a couple of years traveling around and sample all of them.

I like the way one person put it. Unless you've eaten at every single
restaurant in America, how can you say that these are the 101 best?

wrote:
> On May 10, 6:42 pm, ImStillMags > wrote:
>> http://www.thedailymeal.com/101-best...urants-america
>>
>> I've only eaten at a very few. I wish I were filthy rich, I'd spend
>> a couple of years traveling around and sample all of them.
>
> I like the way one person put it. Unless you've eaten at every single
> restaurant in America, how can you say that these are the 101 best?

I couldn't open the article, perhaps because I didn't accept the
ad cookie. Anyway, I really don't like the premise of the
article, both for the reason you mention and also because I wonder
whether the restaurants are skewed toward expensive ones? I
really like authentic ethnic restaurants, which are usually quite
small and frequently of the hole-in-the-wall sort.

--
Jean B.

Jean B. wrote:
>
> because I wonder
> whether the restaurants are skewed toward expensive ones?

The names I recognize were heavily skewed in favor of very high price.
If you manage to get out for under a hundred dollars a head at most of
these places you were very careful about what to order and you had water.

Sitara wrote (I added crossposting to rec.food.restaurants):

> http://www.thedailymeal.com/101-best...urants-america
>
> I've only eaten at a very few. I wish I were filthy rich, I'd spend a
> couple of years traveling around and sample all of them.

I've eaten at nine of them, and of that nine, I don't think two really
belong on such an exclusive list. (Michael Mina and The Slanted Door failed
to live up to the hype, IMO.) I'd also rank Chez Panisse a lot lower than it
is; I think both Joël Robuchon and Restaurant August were better than Chez
Panisse.

Twelve of the 101 restaurants are on my "want to try" list, but the occasion
has to be right. (I can't find enough adventurous eaters to make the trip to
Incanto, for example. If I could get nine people together for the "Whole
Beast" dinner I'd be there in a heartbeat.)

I've got the Zuni Cafe cookbook, and although it's good, I'm surprised to
see the restaurant so highly rated. I didn't think it was *that* good,
comparing the techniques in their cookbook to the techniques in the French
Laundry cookbook.

Bob

On May 11, 8:57*pm, "Bob Terwilliger"

>
> I've got the Zuni Cafe cookbook, and although it's good, I'm surprised to
> see the restaurant so highly rated. I didn't think it was *that* good,
> comparing the techniques in their cookbook to the techniques in the French
> Laundry cookbook.
>

Comparing recipe books has to be the weirdest way to evaluate
restaurants that I've ever heard.

On 11 May 2011 00:10:43 GMT, sandi wrote:

> Also noticed these links the
>
> 10 Most Pointless Salad Ingredients by Valaer Murray
> http://www.thedailymeal.com/10-most-...ad-ingredients

just because an ingredient lacks calories (or has too many - the writer
seems a little confused) doesn't make it pointless.

your pal,
blake