Gourmet Magazine's America's Top 50 Restaurants

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. October 14, 2008

Gourmet's October 2006 Restaurant Issue, available on newsstands September 26, includes a list of America's Top 50 Restaurants, which the magazine compiles every five years. Editor in chief Ruth Reichl, along with several of the magazine's food critics, ate anonymously at hundreds of restaurants across the country to select the nation's best restaurants. Gourmet's 2006 "America's Top 50 Restaurants" list begins on page 131. Gourmet's critics' restaurant suggestions across the country:

1. Alinea, Chicago

2. Chez Panisse, Berkeley, CA

3. The French Laundry, Yountville, CA/Per Se, New York City

4. Spago Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills

5. Joel Robuchon at The Mansion, MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas

6. Le Reve, San Antonio

7. Masa, New York City

8. Alan Wong's Restaurant, Honolulu

9. Daniel, New York City

10. Le Bernardin, New York City

11. Magnolia Grill, Durham, NC

12. Michel Richard Citronelle, Washington, D.C.

13. Charlie Trotter's, Chicago

14. Arrows, Ogunquit, ME

15. Cyrus, Healdsburg, CA

16. Striped Bass, Philadelphia

17. Babbo, New York City

18. Locke-Ober, Boston

19. Canlis, Seattle

20. L'Auberge Carmel, Carmel, CA

21. Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare, Wynn Las Vegas, Las Vegas

22. Restaurant August, New Orleans

23. The Inn at Little Washington, Washington, VA

24. The Dining Room in the Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead, Atlanta

25. Vetri, Philadelphia

26. Fore Street, Portland, ME

27. Jean Georges, New York City

28. Higgins, Portland, OR

29. Da Marco, Houston

30. La Belle Vie, Minneapolis

31. Parker's New American Bistro, Cleveland

32. Michy's, Miami

33. Frasca, Boulder

34. Gramercy Tavern, New York City

35. Providence, Los Angeles

36. Restaurant Guy Savoy, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas

37. Zuni Cafe, San Francisco

38. Urasawa, Beverly Hills

39. Bacchanalia, Atlanta

40. Sanford, Milwaukee

41. York Street, Dallas

42. Manresa, Los Gatos, CA

43. No. 9 Park, Boston

44. Trattoria Nostrani, Santa Fe

45. Cafe Juanita, Kirkland, WA

46. Paley's Place, Portland, OR

47. Lantern, Chapel Hill, NC

48. L'Etoile, Madison, WI

49. Herbsaint, New Orleans

50. Nana, Hilton Anatole Hotel, Dallas

The "America's Top 50 Restaurants" list is published in Gourmet's October 2006 Restaurant Issue, on sale at newsstands on September 26, 2006. Gourmet is published by The Conde Nast Publications.