The USA Today printed a list of "
America's top restaurants" from Zagat. The common
denominator is a food rating of 29 out of a possible 30. And while
we'd trust most restaurants bearing a rating that high, it's a bit
of a headscratcher why Sacramento would have three times as many
restaurants (6) with a 29 rating as San Francisco (2) -- guess
there's not much of a dining scene there. Atlanta and Boston only
have one a piece. Methodology of the quotation-mark-happy red book
aside, here are the the restaurants that made the cut.
Atlanta: Bacchanalia
Boston:
O Ya
Connecticut (Branford): Le Petit
Cafe
Chicago: Les
Nomades, Alinea, Schwa
Cleveland (Vermilion, Ohio): Chez
Francois
Dallas/Fort Worth:
Bonnell's
Kansas City (Smithville, Mo.): Justus
Drugstore
Los Angeles: Matsuhisa
Miami: Naoe
Milwaukee: Roots, Sanford, Eddie
Martini's (Wauwatosa, Wis.)
New Jersey (Red Bank, N.J.): Nicholas
New York City: Le
Bernardin, Daniel, Sushi
Nanase (White Plains, N.Y.), North Fork Table (Southold,
N.Y.)
Sacramento area: Mulvaney's
Building & Loan,
The Kitchen, Ambience
(Carmichael, Calif.), Sunflower
Drive In (Fair Oaks, Calif.), Taste (Plymouth,
Calif.)
San Diego: Market
San Francisco: Gary
Danko, French
Laundry (Yountville, Calif.)
Washington, D.C.: Komi, Marcel's,
Inn at Little Washington (Washington, Va.)