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No contest, really. With more than 20,000 restaurants and eateries — and an increasing number of really good food carts — NYC rules, not least because New Yorkers and 35 million visitors are willing to spend the money for the best and because expense-account breakfasts and lunches drive a phenomenal amount of restaurant business. It was at the Four Seasons, opened in 1959, that the term "power lunch" was coined by Esquire; the "power breakfast" started at the Regency Hotel. The tradition of great food (at sometimes-towering prices) continues with remarkable new openings including Osteria Morini, Lambs Club, Compose, Ciano, and ABC Kitchen (pictured above). Then there's Eataly, the sprawling new food hall that draws daily crowds that rival those at MoMA or Yankee Stadium.
2. Chicago
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Chicagoans love to eat with abandon and refuse to be gouged by the bill. So you almost always get a square meal for a square deal, now more than ever with the rise to eminence of the gastro-pubs like Longman & Eagle, the Purple Pig, Avec, the Girl & the Goat, and the Bristol, each with its own swagger and exaltation of charcuterie culture.
3. SF
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Even if you don't accept San Franciscans' insistence that the stellar restaurants of Napa and Sonoma Valleys are part of their gastronomic landscape, no city (except New Orleans, below) is more serious about its food and wine than San Francisco. It was here that the New American Cuisine movement was born at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, where Mediterranean was married to Northern California provender at places like Piperade, where Cal-Ital took flight at Oliveto and Quince, where vegetarian food was lifted beyond its polemics at Green's, and where Asian cuisines have flourished ever since the Chinese emigrated here in the 19th century.
4. New Orleans
5. Los Angeles
6. Las Vegas
7. Houston
8. DC
9. Boston
10. Seattle
This thread makes me hungry. Too bad all the restaurants listed are extremely expensive.
Eh that's not true, Purple Pig in Chicago is reasonable...or of course all the Chinese options in SF. No surprises here, I think I'd put LA above NO though...but that's just me. It doesn't have the variety as the others, but probably the #1 signature cuisine.
In Chicago's description, let's not forget that Restaurant Magazine recently ranked Chicago's Alinea as the No. 7 restaurant in the world and the No. 1 restaurant in North America.
Eh that's not true, Purple Pig in Chicago is reasonable...or of course all the Chinese options in SF. No surprises here, I think I'd put LA above NO though...but that's just me. It doesn't have the variety as the others, but probably the #1 signature cuisine.
Yeah. Amazing food in NO, but it seems the city lacks in variety compared to the other cities. I'd place Houston above it as well.
Eh that's not true, Purple Pig in Chicago is reasonable...or of course all the Chinese options in SF. No surprises here, I think I'd put LA above NO though...but that's just me. It doesn't have the variety as the others, but probably the #1 signature cuisine.
That's cool. I just figured that the best restaurants are also the most expensive. But to me anything over $25 is expensive!
Yeah. Amazing food in NO, but it seems the city lacks in variety compared to the other cities. I'd place Houston above it as well.
Yeah I could see that. NO might have more bang on a few restaurants at the upper echelon if you were there for a weekend, but Houston probably is higher caliber and more well rounded at this point.
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