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...influenced by where we live. If you're an affluent urban dweller (I concentrated on affluent Internet users for this column, as they are more likely to visit food-related sites than their less affluent counterparts), you're eating out in an informed way, being most likely to visit Zagat for restaurant reviews, Opentable to make an online reservation or Chowhound to discuss your favorite food topics...
...ever made it onto the winner's podium in the nine previous meets that have been held. But Gavin Kaysen means to change that. At just 27, Kaysen is already head chef at El Bizcocho, the restaurant at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego, Calif., which the Zagat Survey has named one of the best places to dine in that city, and he has outfilleted, outsautéed and outroasted 30 other contenders to become the official U.S. representative at the Bocuse. "If there is something I want, I go and get it," Kaysen says. "And I want...
...calling two years after Pò opened. TV gave Batali a bully pulpit for the new-old Italian cooking--less spaghetti buried in red sauce, more pumpkin ravioli--which has spread across the U.S. in the last few years. "There has been a revolutionary improvement in Italian food," says Tim Zagat, a co-founder of the restaurant guides that bear his name. Zagat doesn't credit Batali entirely for that improvement--in fact a much earlier pioneer was Lidia Bastianich, who was cooking in the authentic Italian vernacular at her New York City restaurants when Batali was rinsing beer glasses...
...soup. That's what attracted the hordes paying as much as $30 a serving long before the Seinfeld parody. The soup, most notably the sumptuous lobster and crab bisques, earned him a rating in the Zagat food guide higher than those of some of Manhattan's best chefs. Yeganeh travels the world looking for unusual spices, and each soup is studded with fresh vegetables and meat. "We're sure that there's a strong market out there for these premium soups," says Bello...
...connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder This Fall's new food guides appraise the best of the best in international cuisine, celebrating superior chefs in six top culinary cities. Here's a tour of the spots most highly recommended. Vienna: Steirereck Zagat's 2006 Europe's Top Restaurants which surveys 27 major cities, describes chef Heinz Reitbauer's "exquisite" Austrian eatery as one of the best in all of Europe. New York City: Per Se In the first U.S. evaluations from Europe's prestigious Michelin guide Thomas Keller is one of just...