Best restaurant in America?
Jul 23rd, 2002 | 05:51 PM
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With BEST meaning a comprehensive experience where service is nearly as important as food....
Aureole in NYC, until a year or so ago. It has slipped.
Gramercy Tavern in NYC, until a couple of months ago. It is slipping.
I'm due at French Laundry in a month. I hope I get there in time!
Aureole in NYC, until a year or so ago. It has slipped.
Gramercy Tavern in NYC, until a couple of months ago. It is slipping.
I'm due at French Laundry in a month. I hope I get there in time!
Jul 23rd, 2002 | 06:01 PM
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Agree that the best food in America is served at the White Barn Inn. However, it can't be the best RESTAURANT in America if most people can't afford to eat there.
The best RESTAURANT in America is Lesley's Cafe in Salisaw Oklahoma. One bite of the Apricot Pie and you'll be sold.
The best RESTAURANT in America is Lesley's Cafe in Salisaw Oklahoma. One bite of the Apricot Pie and you'll be sold.
Jul 24th, 2002 | 05:51 AM
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First, "Food/Critic" -- you can't be a writer or you would NEVER have written "well-healed." That had me chuckling for quite a while!
You meant, of course, well-heeled, as in got money. Which apparently a lot of people think is the basis for good vs. not so good dining. Places like the Inn @ Little Washington, etc. etc. have a national reputation and ALSO cost a fortune. Sure it costs $ to pay people to mash raspberries, strain them, and put the couli into a squeeze bottle with which one can scribble around a plate. But I think the whole business of presentation and "shock-chef" combinations (lobster sorbet...) has gotten way out of hand, along with the stock market.
I know far too many people who think you can't eat well without spending a day's salary or more, and I swear many of them can't taste anything that isn't over-priced.
I've yet to eat a meal -- even in a 5-star Relais et Chateau or the equivalent type of restaurant -- that definitely tasted 10 times better than a well prepared meal in some local restaurant. Better, yes, but not 10 times better, even though the cost was 10 times more.
You meant, of course, well-heeled, as in got money. Which apparently a lot of people think is the basis for good vs. not so good dining. Places like the Inn @ Little Washington, etc. etc. have a national reputation and ALSO cost a fortune. Sure it costs $ to pay people to mash raspberries, strain them, and put the couli into a squeeze bottle with which one can scribble around a plate. But I think the whole business of presentation and "shock-chef" combinations (lobster sorbet...) has gotten way out of hand, along with the stock market.
I know far too many people who think you can't eat well without spending a day's salary or more, and I swear many of them can't taste anything that isn't over-priced.
I've yet to eat a meal -- even in a 5-star Relais et Chateau or the equivalent type of restaurant -- that definitely tasted 10 times better than a well prepared meal in some local restaurant. Better, yes, but not 10 times better, even though the cost was 10 times more.
