Fair enough. I’ve eaten at both versions of McCrady’s (+ the Tavern before it closed) and I consider the current tasting room an extension of the previous McCrady’s. Yes, fancier, more courses and smaller portions, but a similar experience. Hence, McCrady’s would have been excluded from the list.
Spoon and Stable in Minneapolis deserves to be on there. The head chef, Gavin Kaysen, had the resume to go anywhere in the world and launch a new restaurant, and that he choose Minneapolis and thrived, re-enforcing the Twin Cities as a top ten food scene in the country deserves mention.