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Makes sense to me. Beard Awards are basically for fine dining, and NYC, SF and Chicago, probably in that order, are the top fine dining cities in the U.S.
LA would be in that group, probably as high as #2 overall, but LA does ethnic stuff better than fine dining.
Makes sense to me. Beard Awards are basically for fine dining, and NYC, SF and Chicago, probably in that order, are the top fine dining cities in the U.S.
LA would be in that group, probably as high as #2 overall, but LA does ethnic stuff better than fine dining.
Haha. You make it sound as though "ethnic" and "fine dining" are mutually exclusive categories.
I think what you meant is that while LA has a creative/vibrant low-end/streetfood culture, it has a notoriously dull high-end/restaurant scene. I've never understood why that is.
I'm not shocked, but based on personal experience, I'd move a few around. LA and Philadelphia would be a little higher, Portland would be a little lower. Other than that, I'd say it looks about right.
Looks about right. D.C. needs to work on it's cheaper lower class street food culture big time, but the city does chef driven dining better than all but the three ahead of it for the most part.
Haha. You make it sound as though "ethnic" and "fine dining" are mutually exclusive categories.
I think what you meant is that while LA has a creative/vibrant low-end/streetfood culture, it has a notoriously dull high-end/restaurant scene. I've never understood why that is.
And yet, at the time of its last guide, it had more Michelin restaurants than Chicago, and far more than DC or New Orleans.
It stands to reason that LA has added many more restaurants in the years since. If you're talking hot new restaurants and "rising star" chefs, then I can see LA placing low, especially during the stagnant GR years, but that's a bit different than saying DC is a better food city than LA.
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