Plan your spring and summer travel with Opinionated About Dining's The 100 Best Restaurants of North America & Europe. Restaurants in nine different countries are represented in this handy 56-page guide, with entries stretching from Honolulu to Copenhagen. It's a new and different typ[e of guide and something that every serious dining hobbyist should have.
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Our man Steve Plotnicki, the so-called king of the bloggers, saw his 100 Best Restaurants of North America & Europe come out today, and while it might not put the Zagats out of the dining-guide business quite yet, we have to say we re behind the Opinionated About Dining man. Plotnicki s distinctive approach is to use a weighted system, so that the opinion of someone like himself a deep-pocketed trencherman who eats out 300 nights a year counts more than someone who comes into the city only occasionally or whose dining habits are limited entirely to his or her own neighborhood. The difference between us and Zagat will be obvious to anyone who picks up the book, says Plotnicki, confidently. The entries are definitely more discerning that the Zagats'. A typical comment, for the top-rated New York restaurant, Jean Georges, is intelligent conceptualization without sacrificing ingredient quality. Or this zinger for Craft: comfort food of the highest level. The slim volume covers both America and Europe, but Plotnicki assures us that s just a precursor to his massive Guide to Dining in North America 2009, coming this fall, the Hobbit to the latter's Lord of the Rings. A separate European guide will come in early 2009. --New York Magazine Grub Street 3/12
With a well-thumbed copy of Zagat or Michelin at hand, does New York really need another restaurant guide? Food blogger Steve Plotnicki thinks he's found a niche to fill with his new, self-published The 100 Best Restaurants of North America & Europe. Unlike the mainstream guides geared as they are to those who merely enjoy eating out Mr. Plotnicki's 56-page pocket-size book is aimed at the small cohort of well-off foodies whose travel plans are driven not by museums, shopping, or sports, but by the restaurants at which they want to book a table. He calls his target audience ;avid dining hobbyists Their poster boy is Park Avenue-based Mr. Plotnicki himself, a former entertainment business mogul who heads off to Europe several times each year to seek out restaurants that matter and talk shop with their chefs. The ratings in his new book, on the other hand, are based on input solicited through OAD from about 900 confirmed foodies, a quarter of whom live outside America. The top-100 list was culled from reviews of 1,600 fine-dining restaurants. In arriving at individual scores, based on a 120-point scale, Mr. Plotnicki weighted each opinion according to how actively the contributor travels to dine. If you've rated two or three top restaurants, your opinion counts for less than that of someone who's dined at a dozen or more. Distance traveled also counts. If you live in L.A. but rate restaurants in Germany and Spain, your score counts for more he said. Mr. Plotnicki is a marvel of dining stamina. In Guardian's food writer Jay Rayner's upcoming book, ;The Man Who Ate the World the author recounts an evening when Mr. Plotnicki took him on a crawl; of Manhattan's starriest restaurants. In their nearly six-hour marathon, the pair sampled signature dishes at Jean-Georges, Per Se, Bouley, Eleven Madison Park, and wd-50, where the crawl culminated in a round of chef Wylie Dufresne's most adventurous dishes and desserts. By then, Mr. Rayner actually felt like crawling, while Mr. Plotnicki was still in fine fettle. (For the record, Mr. Plotnicki, the 54-year-old son of a kosher butcher, raised in Brooklyn, has only the bare beginnings of a belly.) In positioning his new guide, Mr. Plotnicki said that he's trying to hold the middle ground between the editorial stance of the Michelin Guide, with its ratings by anonymous inspectors, and the populist position of Zagat, which doesn't editorialize at all it's a blank slate filled in with comments from diners. Taking a cue from Michelin, Mr. Plotnicki rates restaurants in ascending order as ;important local choices" (between 95 and 99 points), worth going out of your way ; (between 100 and 104 points), and worth planning a trip around (105 points or more). --New York Sun 3/12
With a well-thumbed copy of Zagat or Michelin at hand, does New York really need another restaurant guide? Food blogger Steve Plotnicki thinks he's found a niche to fill with his new, self-published The 100 Best Restaurants of North America & Europe. Unlike the mainstream guides geared as they are to those who merely enjoy eating out Mr. Plotnicki's 56-page pocket-size book is aimed at the small cohort of well-off foodies whose travel plans are driven not by museums, shopping, or sports, but by the restaurants at which they want to book a table. He calls his target audience ;avid dining hobbyists Their poster boy is Park Avenue-based Mr. Plotnicki himself, a former entertainment business mogul who heads off to Europe several times each year to seek out restaurants that matter and talk shop with their chefs. The ratings in his new book, on the other hand, are based on input solicited through OAD from about 900 confirmed foodies, a quarter of whom live outside America. The top-100 list was culled from reviews of 1,600 fine-dining restaurants. In arriving at individual scores, based on a 120-point scale, Mr. Plotnicki weighted each opinion according to how actively the contributor travels to dine. If you've rated two or three top restaurants, your opinion counts for less than that of someone who's dined at a dozen or more. Distance traveled also counts. If you live in L.A. but rate restaurants in Germany and Spain, your score counts for more he said. Mr. Plotnicki is a marvel of dining stamina. In Guardian's food writer Jay Rayner's upcoming book, ;The Man Who Ate the World the author recounts an evening when Mr. Plotnicki took him on a crawl; of Manhattan's starriest restaurants. In their nearly six-hour marathon, the pair sampled signature dishes at Jean-Georges, Per Se, Bouley, Eleven Madison Park, and wd-50, where the crawl culminated in a round of chef Wylie Dufresne's most adventurous dishes and desserts. By then, Mr. Rayner actually felt like crawling, while Mr. Plotnicki was still in fine fettle. (For the record, Mr. Plotnicki, the 54-year-old son of a kosher butcher, raised in Brooklyn, has only the bare beginnings of a belly.) In positioning his new guide, Mr. Plotnicki said that he's trying to hold the middle ground between the editorial stance of the Michelin Guide, with its ratings by anonymous inspectors, and the populist position of Zagat, which doesn't editorialize at all it's a blank slate filled in with comments from diners. Taking a cue from Michelin, Mr. Plotnicki rates restaurants in ascending order as ;important local choices" (between 95 and 99 points), worth going out of your way ; (between 100 and 104 points), and worth planning a trip around (105 points or more). --New York Sun 3/12
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