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October 09, 2005
You've missed a few there...
Forgive me for sounding like a snotty New Yorker here, but this list of the "Most Expensive Restaurants" in the US is full of it. Some $55 place in Detroit made the list, while a bevy of New York places that break the bank aren't mentioned. For example, consider the prices of the dinner tasting menus--before tax, tip, and wine--at these places: Alain Ducasse ($150 per person), Atelier ($128), Daniel ($120), the Four Seasons ($120), Jean Georges ($118), or Picholine ($125). None of these fine eating establishments makes the list, but some $50 buck place in Wahoo does.
Forbes could easily make a list of the country's most expensive restaurants by flipping to page 283 of the 2005 New York Zagat guide (source of the above prices) and adding Le-Bec Fin in Philadelphia, French Laundry in Napa, Charlie Trotter in Chicago (and soon NYC), and maybe one or two others. At the rate they were missing places, if Forbes the list extended much further, we may well see Cosi show up.
Posted by adrianjo at October 9, 2005 12:57 AM