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OA Dining Survey
February 8, 2010
This years survey results were complied based on 1.900 participants contributing more than 29,000 reviews of restaurants in the United States, Canada and Europe. The complete list of U.S. & Canadian restaurants will be available on the web site on March 1. The 2010 European results will be announced on March 8th.
A PDF version of these results can be downloaded here.
The Thirty Most Important Restaurants in the United States (95-100 points)
01. The French Laundry, Yountville: 100
02. Per Se, New York: 99.73
03. Masa, New York: 99.00
04. Manresa, Los Gatos: 98.53
05. Blue Hill...
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OA Dining SurveyJanuary 29, 2010
While I’m away in Paris and Copenhagen stuffing my face, the Opinionated About team (I bet you didn’t know I had a team did you?) are diligently putting the 2010 U.S. Survey results together. On February 8 we will be publishing a list of the 30 Most Important Restaurants in the U.S. along with a list of the Top 15 restaurants in eight different regions of the country. The complete list of U.S. & Canadian restaurants will be published on March 1. But back to my trip for a moment, besides having countless meals at a slew of top restaurants, my friend Laurent Vanparys of the website Gastros-on-Tour has organized a restaurant crawl of Copenhagen that is based on the NYC restaurant crawl that I organized for Jay Rayner a number of years back. I believe we are hitting six restaurants next Thursday evening. It should be a blast.
OA Blog/Dishes Worth Going Out of Your Way ForJanuary 4, 2010
Even though health issues kept me from eating as much as I could in 2009, I managed to get in some good meals. So like last year, here is an alphabetical list of my favorite dishes of the year. Note: Sometimes "favorite" is the equivalent of being “the best", while sometimes it’s just something that I got immense enjoyment from despite its simplicity or lack of gravitas on the culinary food chain. I hope you enjoy reading about these dishes as much as I enjoyed eating them.
1. Boudin - Cochon Butcher, New Orleans, Louisiana - I’m no expert on boudin, but...
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OA Blog/Destination DiningDecember 19, 2009
I found last year’s best meals article to be so informative that I decided to publish a 2009 version. So, once again, I asked various chefs, bloggers, etc. people who are either in the food industry or passionate about food the following questions:
1. Name the best meal that you had in 2009
2. Name the chef or restaurant who showed the most potential in 2009
Last year’s responses yielded the names of a number of restaurants that hadn’t been on my radar before. A case in point is Els Casals, a restaurant up in the mountains around an hour...
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Spain DiningDecember 1, 2009
After a few days of eating what seemed like an endless parade of gambas, chiperones, espardenyes and the odd kilo of chulenton, I was in the mood for a bit of molecular magic. In fact I found myself imagining that I had walked into a restaurant and asked the waiter, “what flavor air are you serving today?" But I wouldn’t have to dream about it that much longer was only in my dreams. Soon my desire for the cuisine moderne would be sated by an evening at El Bulli.
I hadn’t been to El Bulli in a number of years...
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