Update: Esquire's Best New Restaurants of 2008
Following this morning's breaking story of Luce's Dominique Crenn winning Esquire's Chef of the Year award, as well as Luce itself getting on the magazine's 20-strong Best New Restaurants list, we're pleased to bring you the complete list, which we're posting after the jump.
As further proof to what we all knew — that magazine editors put together these lists based on what rhymes — Spruce joins Luce in the San Francisco contingent.
Again, congratulations to Crenn, Luce, and now Spruce.
Here's the list:
Bar Boulud, NYCBar Blanc, NYC
Kampuchea, NYC
Scampo, Boston
Voice, Houston
Mansion on Turtle Creek, Dallas
Takashi, Chicago
Mercat, Chicago
L.2O, Chicago (Restaurant Of The Year, as MP:Chicago broke this morning)
Plumed Horse, Saratoga, CA
Luce, San Francisco (Chef Of The Year, which MP:SF broke this morning)
Palate, Glendale, CA
Convivio, NYC
Corbett’s, Louisville
Pacific Time, Miami
Zahav, Philadelphia
Distrito, Philadelphia
Terra, Tesuque, NM
Spruce, San Francisco
Scarpetta, NYC
Breaking: Esquire's 2008 Chef Of The Year [MenuPages SF]
Luce [MenuPages]
Luce [Official Site]
Spruce [MenuPages]
Spruce [Official Site]
