Eager for a fresh start after working in some of Manhattan's most illustrious restaurants, they toured the West Coast, finally settling on Portland.
Café des Artistes faced tough competition from illustrious restaurants in the neighborhood, including Picholine on West 64th Street, Jean Georges at the Trump International Hotel and Daniel Boulud's Bar Boulud on Broadway, all vying for the Lincoln Center crowds.
Four years ago, Onodera sold his sushi restaurant to a longtime employee and now spends much of his time making ceramics for a roster of illustrious restaurants, including Providence in L.A. and Mélisse in Santa Monica.
All the food service is overseen by Chef Osvaldo Presazzi, here since 1992, after stints at illustrious restaurants like Les Ambassadeurs at the Hotel Crillon in Paris, Il Teatro in Milan, and the restaurants of master chef Gualtiero Marchesi in Erbusco and Milan.
The catalyst, a Shanghainese friend explained, was the opening of Zhang Sheng Ji Hangzhou, a branch of an illustrious Hangzhou restaurant.
The camellias outside the Capitol are in brilliant bloom, the thick tule fog comes rolling up the Great Central Valley on cold mornings, and Frank Fat's, the illustrious Chinese restaurant and bar downtown, fills nightly with lobbyists and legislators looking for deals.
Just days after he was videoed drunkenly rambling away in Jamaican Patois in the middle of a fast food restaurant, illustrious Toronto mayor Rob Ford was at it again, this time leaving a waiting audience bewildered as to his whereabouts as he fought his way out of a hotel lift.
A spacious New England green graced by a row of three handsome early 19th-century churches, a historic cemetery with a majestic Egyptian Revival gateway and countless illustrious occupants, and the restaurants in which pizza and the hamburger sandwich are said to have been invented (both still great places to eat) are just a few of the city's attractions.
We categorized selections, invited an illustrious panel of judges (mostly restaurant critics, food and lifestyle writers, and bloggers) from across America to help order the restaurants via an anonymous survey, then tallied results to assemble a ranked list.
The wall separates Manganaro's Hero-Boy -- a renowned, 40-year-old sandwich shop at 492-494 Ninth Avenue, near 37th Street, from the Manganaro Grosseria Italiana (formally known as Manganaro Foods), an illustrious century-old specialty grocery and restaurant at 488 Ninth Avenue.
