THREE STARS Exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey

• Les Amis (P)
• Odette (P)

TWO STARS Excellent cooking, worth a detour

• Saint Pierre (P)
• ✔ Shisen Hanten
  • peking duck
  • with second course (wrapped in lettuce, sautéed with ginger and spring onion, sautéed in black pepper sauce)
  • some kind of tofu egg drop soup thing?
    • food: was okay; not quite two michelin stars; nothing to shout about here (although the meat/lettuce wrap was really good).
    • company: was also okay. not the easiest to get along with, though. no dessert, sad...

THREE STARS Exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey

• Les Amis (P)
• Odette (P)

TWO STARS Excellent cooking, worth a detour

• Saint Pierre (P)
• ✔ Shisen Hanten
• Shoukouwa
• Waku Ghin
• Zen (N)

ONE STAR High quality cooking, worth a stop

• Alma
• ✔ Basque Kitchen by Aitor (N)
• ✔ Beni
• ✔ Braci
• Buona Terra (P)
• Burnt Ends
• ✔ Candlenut
• Cheek Bistro (N)

• Luke's Oyster Bar & Chop House ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆
  • 6 oysters (2 of each from the 3 specials)
  • luke's lobster pot pie (for me)
  • luke's tenderloin au poivre
  • side of creamed spinach (comes with fried garlic, reggiano, a sunny side up)
  • double fudge chocolate brownie
  • a bottle of white wine
  • (complimentary chocolate birthday cake for my date, as arranged by moi)
    • notes: this was pretty damn special: from the food, to the setting, to the company, etc, and it was really quite a magical and lovely night).
    • bill for two: $600

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in no particular order.

• odette (3 michelin stars)
• ✔ JAAN (1 michelin star)
• Alma (1 michelin star)
• ✔ beni (1 michelin star)
• ✔ labyrinth (1 michelin star)
• corner house (1 michelin star)
• Cheek Bistro

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• pollen // Fennel Cafe
• SKAI
• LAVO
• The Summerhouse (French Dining Room)

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• South Union Park
• Percolate