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Old 02-17-2008, 12:33 AM
 
Location: Southeast Missouri
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1. New York
2. Chicago
3. San Francisco
4. Los Angeles
5. New Orleans
6. Houston
7. Washington, D.C.
8. Atlanta
9. Boston
10. Las Vegas

Interesting list. I kind of figured 1,2, and 4 because of their size.
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Old 02-17-2008, 01:06 AM
 
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List seems to be right on to me
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Old 02-17-2008, 06:56 AM
 
Location: Portland, Maine
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All large cities today have plenty of great restaurants to choose from so if your favorite in not included it is because there are just to many of them. I think the list is fine. I love seafood so I would add Seattle and Baltimore to the list.
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Old 02-17-2008, 09:11 AM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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All large cities today have plenty of great restaurants to choose from so if your favorite in not included it is because there are just to many of them. I think the list is fine. I love seafood so I would add Seattle and Baltimore to the list.
I honestly think smaller cities have better resturants.
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Old 02-17-2008, 10:45 AM
 
Location: Burkina Faso
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Lists like this are garbage. My family used to live in New York, and we hardly ever ate out because it was so expensive. A slice of pizza at a Sbarro in Manhattan is like $6.

You need to balance what's available with how much people typically make. Overall, we're able to enjoy much better restaurants (and more frequently) here in Ohio, than we ever did in New York. The fact that New York has lots of $1000 a plate celebrity chef restaurants is basically meaningless to middle class folks like us.

San Fransisco is another city that I think is vastly overrated in terms of what you get for what you pay for.
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Old 02-17-2008, 11:36 AM
 
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Lists like this are garbage. My family used to live in New York, and we hardly ever ate out because it was so expensive. A slice of pizza at a Sbarro in Manhattan is like $6.

You need to balance what's available with how much people typically make. Overall, we're able to enjoy much better restaurants (and more frequently) here in Ohio, than we ever did in New York. The fact that New York has lots of $1000 a plate celebrity chef restaurants is basically meaningless to middle class folks like us.

San Fransisco is another city that I think is vastly overrated in terms of what you get for what you pay for.
I agree with you. However, given that this list was in Forbes, I don't think they took cost into consideration.

If they did, then I think New Orleans would probably be #1. Not only does it have absolutely amazing food on every street corner, it's CHEAP.

Having said that, I've had outstanding food in every city I've visited in this country. Just avoid the chain restaurants and look for the places with the biggest lines and you'll have a great dining experience.
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Old 02-17-2008, 11:49 AM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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I agree with you. However, given that this list was in Forbes, I don't think they took cost into consideration.
Obviously we know the readership of Forbes. But these top ten lists eat away at their reputation. The choices are usually ridiculous.
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Old 02-17-2008, 12:06 PM
 
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Lists like this are garbage. My family used to live in New York, and we hardly ever ate out because it was so expensive. A slice of pizza at a Sbarro in Manhattan is like $6.

You need to balance what's available with how much people typically make. Overall, we're able to enjoy much better restaurants (and more frequently) here in Ohio, than we ever did in New York. The fact that New York has lots of $1000 a plate celebrity chef restaurants is basically meaningless to middle class folks like us.

San Fransisco is another city that I think is vastly overrated in terms of what you get for what you pay for.
I can't speak for New York, but in Chicago there are plenty of very good, yet inexpensive restaurants. Of course, there are also plenty of restaurants where you can spend as much as you want, but the good restaurants are by no means limited to the expensive ones. On my street alone, there are more places than I can count where I could go to get high quality food of any variety for $5-$10 for a full meal.

I actually used to live in Ohio (Cincinnati) and have spent some time in all the major cities in that state. While I was always impressed at the number of quality restaurants in Cincinnati (for a city its size), I don't think any city in Ohio can hold a candle to most of the cities on that list. Moreover, the really good restaurants in Ohio (or Cincinnati, at least) were clustered mainly at the high end. There really weren't that many choices for inexpensive, quick food beyond fast food and chains - not to say there weren't any, just that there weren't that many.
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Old 02-17-2008, 12:11 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Omaha has some really great restaurants too.
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Old 02-17-2008, 12:33 PM
 
Location: Portland, Maine
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I honestly think smaller cities have better resturants.


Actually you may be right. I still think two of the best meals I ever had in my life were in Minot, North Dakota and Grand Island, Nebraska. I always remember those meals and they were years ago.
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