While there is no indication as to whether the experts visited all the restaurants in the running, the site said the judges who voted for their favourites had "wide restaurant-going experience".
There are farmers' markets, food trails and events to whet your appetite, while in Edinburgh (which has five Michelin stars), October sees a city-wide restaurant festival.
The ambition and scale of the wider restaurant effort for Meatless Monday, which started on June 6, has made Aspen "the nation's first true Meatless Monday community," said the Meatless Monday campaign, a national effort in association with the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
The heart of the neighborhood is Parque Lleras, a block-wide, restaurant- and bar-lined park that has great people-watching at night, and whose Christmas lights were phantasmagoric.
Tom thinks that TripAdvisor will be damaged by the campaign, but unable or unwilling to do anything about it: "Their arm's-length, we-don't-need-you stance with owners is creating a festering dislike that is filtering out into the wider restaurant-going community and mainstream press.
Its flag would be 50 feet high and 100 feet wide, the restaurant group says.
He's the only food writer ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism ("For his zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater") and the first to be a finalist in the Essay or Criticism category of the National Magazine Awards.
Also, I'm lucky enough to have a newspaper that believes in the value of wide-ranging restaurant criticism, and is willing to pay for it, so for the moment I'm not making all my dining decisions based on cost.
Cosi reported on Thursday that system-wide comparable restaurant sales for the 2010 third quarter recorded an aggregate 5.2% increase compared to the third quarter of 2009.
But a number of new and wide-ranging restaurants are redrawing the town's culinary map.
