The 50 Best Restaurants in the World...

[SoCal2NYC]

I love California Pizza Kitchen. I would rather have CPK anyday over a "New York slice."
I was sooooooo pissed when they cut the pear and gorgonzola pizza from the menu, so now my go to is the Jamacian jerk chicken pizza. The tequila lime pasta is pretty good too.

 

[Fade to Black]

pear and gorgonzola i remember that, it sounded like an awful mix. but then again that's what i used to say bout the hawaiian...

i wish their pasta portions were bigger. actually this goes for those so called "haute" Italian restaurants out there too. Paper Moon gets it right

 

[SoCal2NYC]

oh my gaaaahd with the salad thing they put on top and then get the pizza on the honey wheat dough it was AMAZING

 

[tiger02]

Originally Posted by Alter

Case in point, I was out for dinner the other night in Kobe and we ordered a tomato dish. It was, simply, a sliced tomato on a plate. No salt, no dressing, no garnish, nothing.

It was the best tomato I have ever eaten.

Go to New Jersey in June, brother. Not even kidding.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by tiger02

Go to New Jersey in June, brother. Not even kidding.

Judging from the Gotti hotties images, a lot of those tomatoes are fake.

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

I ate there last October, and it was a decent meal...the second best we had in BA.

The best was a simple bbq at an estancia.

- B

I've never eaten at the restaurant...just had a soda and a tostado at the lunge / bar area.

Jon.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by imageWIS

I've never eaten at the restaurant...just had a soda and a tostado at the lunge / bar area.

Jon.

There was a great singer in the lounge when we were there...we stopped by after dinner to have some drinks and listen to her.

It was a fun night, but they all were in BA.

- B

 

[ChicagoRon]

Originally Posted by tiger02

Go to New Jersey in June, brother. Not even kidding.
+ 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Rutgers tomatoes (or just "Jersey Tomatoes" when in the Garden State) are the greatest in the world.

 

[poorsod]

Originally Posted by iammatt

I know a lot of people in the food world, and never, not once, have I heard Japanese food put in that pantheon. It is always French and Chinese, and then everything else. Japanese food tastes great, and it is popular, but the diversity of tastes and techniques is way behind the other two.

I think Japanese food strives to be simple, but perfect. To me that is the allure.

If you haven't had good Malaysian food, you should try it. It is true fusion cuisine of Indians, Chinese and Malays who lived together for hundreds of years. In my mind it is much more robust than the nouveau "fusion" cuisine of famous chefs - which I find shallow and neither here nor there.

 

[Patrician]

There's no way that an American restaurant would make it top 5. But then of course, the list isn't exactly impartial. cough NestlÃ

cough.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by ChicagoRon

+ 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Rutgers tomatoes (or just "Jersey Tomatoes" when in the Garden State) are the greatest in the world.

You can certainly find better in israel and the south of italy in season.

 

[ChicagoRon]

I may have exaggerated slightly... I am not going to badmouth southern Italian tomatoes. But I've never been to Isreal or Italy, and Jersey's are my personal favorites.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by Patrician

There's no way that an American restaurant would make it top 5. But then of course, the list isn't exactly impartial. cough NestlÃ

cough.

Really? You seem to be a bit biased in the other direction. No single American restaurant in the top 5?

 

[SirSuturesALot]

This might have been said before, but I'm disappointed at the glaring absence of Asian restaurants on the lists.

 

[SField]

Originally Posted by SirSuturesALot

This might have been said before, but I'm disappointed at the glaring absence of Asian restaurants on the lists.

I see Tetsuya, Nobu, Masa....