Top Restaurants 2002

NYCity
#1 Kai
#2 Jewel Bako
#3 Lupa
#4 Jean Georges
#5 Grand Sichuan Int'l Midtown
#6 Felidia
#7 Union Pacific
#8 Honmura An

El Mundo
#1 Da Guido (Piedmonte, Italy)
#2 Taubenkobel (Burgenland, Austria)
#3 Zur Rose (Sud Tyrol, Italy)
#4 L'Astrance (Paris)
#5 Temple Club (Siagon)
#6 Altwienerhof (Vienna)
#7 Locanda Dell Arco (Piedmonte, Italy)
#8 Les Tonnelles (Loire, France)
#9 Indochine (Siagon)
#10 Walter Bauer (Vienna)

Special Merit/No Particular Order
The Minnow, Veritas, Sistina,
Fresh, Holy Basil, Al Di La
Manducati's, Willi's Wine Bar (Paris)
Tomasso's, Gramercy Tavern, Picholine
Locanda Vini Olii, Al Ponte (Verona, Italy)
L'osteria del Vignaiolo (Piedmonte, Italy)
L'Oste Scuro (Verona, Italy)
Il Gattopardo, Jaglhof (Styria, Austria)
Weininger (Vienna), Loibnerhof (Wachau, Austria)
Zur Blauen Gans (Burgenland, Austria)
Lumiere (West Newton, MA)
- Skinny 2-08-2011 6:49 pm [add a comment]

That Austria trip was truly incredible.




- jim 2-08-2011 7:06 pm [add a comment]

jim can you email me the wine shot, i forgot about on of those bottles
- Skinny 2-08-2011 9:39 pm [add a comment]

Sent...
- jim 2-08-2011 10:57 pm [add a comment]

crazy year!
- linda 2-09-2011 12:52 am [add a comment]

At Altwienerhof, before they really got to know Skinny, they were alarmed that he was ordering too much wine!
- alex 2-09-2011 2:12 am [add a comment]

Alarmed is, I think, putting it mildly. They just wouldn't let him order any more until we drank what we had (but Skinny wanted the 3rd in line bottle to be decanting while we took care of what was in front of us.) And even then, they didn't really want him to order any more out of fear for their cellar. We were, to be sure, "Americans", and that was not a good thing. They were nervous he was going to order every under priced bottle they had (and doubly nervous that Skinny might know which bottles were under priced when they didn't.) But in the end he won them over, and we drank all we wanted and got a tour of the cellar as well. Incredible meal.

It was your birthday Alex, if I'm not mistaken.



Here's us in the cellar:


- jim 2-09-2011 3:22 am [add a comment]

Yes, I think we had a '58 Barolo to mark the occasion.
- alex 2-09-2011 3:44 am [add a comment]

79 jamek austian, 91 raveneau clos, 58 g. mascarello barolo (the best nebbiolo to ever pass my lips still to this day), ?? 82 ?? vietti rocche, 82 a. conterno gran bussia, 97 roumier bonnes mares, 91 henri jayer echezeau, 83 leflaive puligny clavillion, ?? 93 ?? tokai

we spent a lot but the current value of these wines is 6,000++
- Skinny 2-09-2011 4:31 pm [add a comment]