Critics' Choice: The 25 Best Restaurants In America

March, 1998

Critics' Choice: The 25 Best Restaurants in AmericaAlot has changed since our Critics' Choice lists of America's best restaurants were first published in the early Eighties. On those lists, the most recognizable names were André Soltner of Lutèce and Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and ascending culinary stars Paul Prudhomme of K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen and Wolfgang Puck of Spago. Many of the restaurants were French, some were Italian and only one, K-Paul's, was obviously heretical, though Michae...