World's 50 Best Restaurants

[Fijimn]

Looks like some good American restaurants dropped in the list. Blue Hill cracked the list. I like Dan Barber's place, but don't know if it belongs here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/d...ts-awards-ceremony-guildhall-london.html?_r=0

 

[noleit]

What? What have you done with FSUTribe?

 

[DanC78]

Tribe...before you post anything in this thread...we need to set the over-under on how many of these restaurants you have been too.

Is 3 good?

what say ye LR?

 

[seminoledq]

Tribe...before you post anything in this thread...we need to set the over-under on how many of these restaurants you have been too.

Is 3 good?

what say ye LR?

Give me a dime on the over.

 

[FSUTribe76]

Tribe...before you post anything in this thread...we need to set the over-under on how many of these restaurants you have been too.

Is 3 good?

what say ye LR?

Give me a dime on the over.

You're the winner, I've been to four. Alinea, Bernardin, French Laundry and Per Se. But there's only six in the US and when traveling abroad I seldom take the time to play dress up (maybe once per trip) and waste all that time I could be exploring at an elite level restaurant. Plus anyone who has been to ANY French restaurant let alone top level will tell you that their service is substantially slower than American service. Rather than rush you out they expect you to lazily smoke cigarettes an/or actually talk between courses and getting the bill can take an hour.

Plus, although by some standards I'm a foodie in that I do not like prepackaged and frozen American commericial food, I truthfully rarely enjoy the overproduced high end "foodie" restaurants. Some like all of the Iron Chef Morimoto restaurants and the Keller and Ripert restaurants are worth the expense and the overthetop production involving 40 ingredients and six cooking processes in one small tiny bite of food. But I'm more about quality ingredients cooked locally in a regional style or historical style. I'm more of a food anthropologist than a true foodie.

 

[FSUTribe76]

When I travel, I don't just look for the highest rated restaurants. Those are usually the same cookie cutter/copycat foodie places where the top end chefs immediately steal from one another and they're all kind of the same. Only rarely will you find truly unique food at the high end places and if it is truly unique it's some grossly overwrought food item.

Instead I like to try the best "mom and pop" regional food items wherever I go. If it's the oldest pizza places in almost every big city...you can bet I've been. The place that invented the buffalo wing? Been to the Anchor Bar. The place that invented the Parker House roll, baked "scrod" and Boston cream pie? Going this Friday. The place that invented standalone dry rub bbq ribs? Go there every year. So on and so forth. Those are the places that are squarely in my wheelhouse.

 

[FSUTribe76]

But of the four I went to, I'd probably say Alinea was the best. But that didn't have my favorite meal, far from it. My favorite meal period was a foodie place ie Morimoto's in NYC where we got the upgraded Omakase when Morimoto himself just happened randomly to be in the kitchen. That was absolutely amazing. After that my second favorite meal of all time was probably a little authentic Shanghaiese place in Vancouver called Long's Noodle House. It was ridiculously cheap yet everything was made from scratch and was truly amazing. I've had many memorable meals so I'm not sure which one I would put third but I can say most of them are small mom and pops and not expensive high end places.

 

[NotGuiltyNole]

I have been to 4 as well, 11 Madison (3 times), Alinea (4 Times), Per Se (Private Dinner with Keller) and Le Bernadin. Have also been two a bunch of the 51-100. Alinea winter 2013 is the best meal of my life, by a pretty decent margin. The experience there to me is 2nd to none. On our first trip to 11 Daniel Humm came over and chatted with us. He found out Alinea is our favorite he made us a dish that was his representation of what 11 and Alinea would look like if they merged. 2 years later they actually did a kitchen share program. Per Se was honestly a let down food wise, but getting to sit with Keller and discuss each dish was amazing. Also watching the way their kitchen works has changed the way I approach business and leadership.

I could go on for days, but do not want to steal Tribe's thunder as the resident Food Snob.

 

[jackdanielsandcokefsu]

But of the four I went to, I'd probably say Alinea was the best. But that didn't have my favorite meal, far from it. My favorite meal period was a foodie place ie Morimoto's in NYC where we got the upgraded Omakase when Morimoto himself just happened randomly to be in the kitchen. That was absolutely amazing. After that my second favorite meal of all time was probably a little authentic Shanghaiese place in Vancouver called Long's Noodle House. It was ridiculously cheap yet everything was made from scratch and was truly amazing. I've had many memorable meals so I'm not sure which one I would put third but I can say most of them are small mom and pops and not expensive high end places.

Warren with the over