Any thoughts on the NY Times Top 100? Here are some of mine…
Great to see many friends on the list.
Many great restaurants that I frequent made the cut but as always there are lots of omissions so I try to just get a feel for the trends these list represents and the preferences of the authors.
It is hard to get a sense of what they like and don’t like. They love Queens and out of the way places which is cool. My quick count shows there were almost double the number of Queens based restaurants than Brooklyn??? SHOCKING. I will concede Brooklyn maybe slipping a bit but this is crazy. I do plan to check out a number of the Queens restaurants.
They don’t really seem to like French food. How is Le Chene not on this list? And a shut out for the Frenchette group. Le Veau d’Or should absolutely be on the list or if they want something edgy Le French Diner is a favorite amongst Chefs.
Personally I would have had The Four Horsemen higher maybe even #1.
Although there are some (e.g. Atomix) I think the list is light on Modern Korean.
And how the F did Chrissy’s not make the list…nice to see Una but they don’t seem to care about Pizza the most NY of NY foods.
I just might make my own list…