Professional chefs turn to Sercarz for new flavors and textures and emotions — recently, it was Ignacio Mattos of the esteemed restaurant Estela, in Nolita.
8 p.m. 2. DALMATIAN DINING Since Dubrovnik's arguably most esteemed restaurant, Gils, reopened in May under the name 360° (Svetog Dominika; 385-20-322-222; 360dubrovnik.com), the food has gone from French fusion to, in the words of the new chef, Jeffrey Vella, "Croatian with a pinch of salt".
404 NW 10th Avenue, +1 503 972 1700, nuvrei.com Vitaly and Kimberly Paley's restaurant, in a handsome Victorian house in Nob Hill, just up the hill from downtown, is one of Portland's most esteemed restaurants (open since 1995) known for fine-tuned Pacific Northwest cuisine and excellent service.
Rush Street is known for hosting some of the few highly rated and esteemed restaurants in the Chicago Gold Coast neighborhood.
This is perhaps most obvious when some of the most widely esteemed restaurants in the world receive negative Yelp reviews.
Owned by the mogul behind the esteemed Kimchi Princess Korean restaurant next door, Soju Bar imitates the streets of Seoul remarkably well.
RUN TO IRAN By late Sunday morning, the line at Byblos Le Petit Café (1499, avenue Laurier Est; 514-523-9396; bybloslepetiscafulla) is full of young couples, grad-student types and others eager to dig into the bright, book-lined Persian restaurant's esteemed brunch.
It contains a sentence that far outdoes his earlier 1,667 word effort in The Times, starting on page 212 and ending four pages later; it lists the restaurants most esteemed by Levin in Europe, Asia and America.
Because of its name (it translates to "Great Britain"), European design and esteemed 200-seat French-style restaurant, it quickly became popular with rich Europeans traveling to the area to explore business opportunities.
This year the cosy rustic restaurant features in the pages of a number of esteemed food publications, including the Michelin Guide, and the Good Food Guide.
Downstairs, celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten is opening a steakhouse, right next to a new restaurant by Thomas Keller, chef and co-owner of Napa Valley's esteemed French Laundry.
