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Nah the fine cuisines aren't necessarily the "hot" places to go. They are judging based on food excellence, not how hip or cool some place is. I mean a lot of places where the food is excellent, the dining scene is rather stuffy. The food in LA is great though, no worries. I just don't think they have been doing the "high end" cuisine as much as other cities as of late. Why this is, I am not sure, but the guy from Michelin stating that isn't a revelation this has been going on for quite awhile, probably since the sell out of Wolfgang Puck LoL. I think instead of opening restaurants, he is now into acting...opening sub par restaurants in Tulsa, and staring as the Chef Smurf in the upcoming Smurfs 3D.
French cuisine has been dead in LA for years. Why? Who knows and who cares. When it comes to food(not just high end, but every budget), LA slaps around most cities for fun.
Including suburbs/metro cities lik Aventura, Sunny Isles, Coconut Grove which is part of the City of Miami, Fort Lauderdale etc.. Miami is at 29. Not including Broward county and just ones listed in Maimi-Dade Miami is at 25.
Coral Gables, Key Biscayne, Aventura, Sunny Isles all are very close to the actual City Limits of Miami and Miami Beach and Coconut Grove is in the city limits of Miami so at least add those two to the Miami count so a minimum of 17.
1. New York 33
2. Las Vegas/Henderson 29
3. Toronto 22
4. Chicagoland 16
5. Los Angeles Area 15
6. Miami/Miami Beach 15
7. Phoenix/Scottsdale 15
8. Boston 13 9. San Francisco 12
The Bay Area has 24 restaurants in this ranking.
And many of our most world famous restaurants arent even included.
All of the ranked restaurants are overrated and way over priced.......................
Yeah Ive eaten at many of those Bay Area restaurants and while good-some are nothing to write home about, I can think of many other restaurants in town not included in this list that are way better.
But then that's the nature of restaurant rankings I suppose, to see the results of that organization's findings.
AAA rankings are ridiculous. Quite a few mediocre hotels restaurants get the four diamond designation, and no truly great restaurant would brag about it.
Lol in portlands deffense pacific northwest is verry casual we have a verry laid back lifestyle. Are rich dont ride in limos they usualy drive themselves . I know most resteraunts in the northwest dont reqire ties and jackets. Just a casual area not many 4 diamond places .
Funny that Atlanta and Dallas scored the same because when I moved to Dallas from Atlanta and people would ask me about the restaurants I'd always say "The restaurant scene seems the same to me". I guess I'm a pretty good judge in that subject.
I am a chef, I have worked in the industry for 20 years and helped open a restaurant that was nominated for a Beard Award. I am comfortable in saying that the AAA list is nonsense and nobody in the industry cares about it. The Michelin Guide is also useless for the US, they don't have the resources to do more than a few cities and their rankings of the cities they do cover are odd at times. They are looking at it through the lens of European dining culture and don't understand that the rest of the world is different (even North America).
The reality is that there is no nationwide ranking of city dining scenes that is credible. A lot of it is opinion anyway.
The best you can do is add up all the Beard Award winners and nominees and compare that city by city but even that isn't truely accurate because there are a lot of regional awards and not all regions are created equal.
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