Today's year-in-review continues with my top ten restaurants of the year. These are all restaurants that I visited during the past 12 months and certainly isn't an exhaustive list of all the amazing places in Chicago or the other cities to which I traveled during the year. My original list had about 25, and I painfully whittled it down to these ten:
10 (tie). The Bristol (Chicago, Bucktown, September 1, 2010)
10 (tie). Sprout (Chicago, Lincoln Park, April 30, 2010)
9 (tie). Hearty (Chicago, Lakeview, March 24 and October 1, 2010)
9 (tie). Floriole (Chicago, Lincoln Park, May 18, 2010)
8 (tie). Ceres Table (Chicago, Uptown, March 22, 2010)
8 (tie). Extraordinary Desserts (San Diego, February 17, 2010)
7. Spondi (Athens, Greece, July 28, 2010)
6. Inovasi (Lake Bluff, May 26, 2010)
4. Alinea (Chicago, Lincoln Park, January 19, 2010)
3. Xoco (Chicago, River North, February 7 and April 14, 2010)
2. Joël Robuchon (Las Vegas, May 3, 2010)
1. Avenues (Chicago, Gold Coast, February 19, 2010)
Ok, fine. You caught me. I had a top 13. And I don't even know how I got down to 13!
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