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Los Gatos' Manresa Declared World's Top Restaurant
NBC Bay Area ^ | Tuesday, May 1, 2012 | Chris Roberts

Posted on 05/01/2012 1:22:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Chef David Kinch's Manresa is world-class in Los Gatos.

The food isn't good at Manresa in Los Gatos. It's world-class good -- the 46th-best restaurant on the globe, as a matter of fact.

Chef David Kinch's spin on local California cuisine -- where ingredients come from a Santa Cruz farm that grows vegetables exclusively for the roasted stone fruit or the slow-roasted duck in a hay-and-salt crust -- last made the list in 2006, and is one of only two California eateries to make the exclusive list, compiled by sparkly-water purveyors San Pellegrino, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

The French Laundry clocked in at 43, though chef Thomas Keller's New York effort, Per Se, was deemed sixth-best restaurant, according to reports.

Keeping its strangehold on the top spot at www.theworlds50best.com is Noma, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based eatery where the ingredients are all classic Nordic products, like moss. Really.

Kinch's status as a premier purveyor of food products is merely due to the hard work of his staff, he said in an e-mail.


TOPICS: Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: food
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To: AppyPappy

Now there’s that “counter-snob” attitude, displayed right away.

You don’t know anything about any of these people.

My favorite food in the whole world, bar none, is steamed Maryland crabs. It is too messy and complicated to eat for any “fine dining”. There is no better food.

I LOVE fast food. My favorite is the best in service as well as food - Chick-Fil-A. Love my CFA. If my gut could stand it, I’d eat lots of fast food.

And I love steaks at Longhorn (Outback is OK, but not as good). I like how they do vegetables better than anyone - basically, I don’t like vegetables in public better than my own cooking.

Don’t think I haven’t spent most of my restauranteuring at low-cost places. But I know I don’t have to sneer and turn up my nose at restaurants just because they’re hoity-toy. Some of them are very good. And offer a unique food experience - something a bit different that no-one would make at home because it’s just hard to find the food or cook it.


61 posted on 05/01/2012 4:44:02 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: AppyPappy
Prissy fag yourself. I've been to Bassett, Virginia and have eaten from practically all the few restaurants or lunch counters in that strange little town that time forgot. Once I got over the sense of having inadvertently fallen into an old episode of the Twilight Zone, I found that I actually liked the old place. It's real alright.

But, if you want backwoods authentic, get your own effete derriere up to Priddy’s General Store on Shepperd's Mill road in Danbury, NC and order yourself a thick sliced fried bologna sandwich with a slice of hoop cheese.

And then, get back to me. Oh, and tell the mayor hello for me, she runs the place.

62 posted on 05/01/2012 4:46:03 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: AppyPappy

“Ya’ll are a bunch of prissy fags. You go to Dodge’s Store in Bassett, Va and get the fried chicken and the fried potatoes. Now that is fine dining.”

######

“I’ll only go if they are “ranked” in the top 7500 restaurants in the Western Hemisphere.

I’ve got my standards....


63 posted on 05/01/2012 4:47:50 PM PDT by EyeGuy (Non-Holder person.)
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To: AppyPappy
Ya’ll are a bunch of prissy fags.

That's not what thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines called me when I was cooking for them. And an AF TSgt gets to cook for everybody in the JTF world.

/johnny

64 posted on 05/01/2012 4:51:25 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Irish Eyes

I’m enjoying reading The French Laundry’s April 30 menu as we speak:

http://www.tkrg.org/upload/fl_menu.pdf


65 posted on 05/01/2012 5:00:00 PM PDT by txhurl (Thank you, Andrew Breitbart. In your untimely passing, you have exposed these people one last time.)
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To: EyeGuy
Yeah, but I got three meals out of one of those stacked beauties

Only three meals?

I understand that. Two of my daughters and I made two full meals plus out of a single Carnegie sandwich once, when we were there on a 'dad's got some free hotel nights and flights' budget trip for museums and a show.

66 posted on 05/01/2012 5:00:26 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: JRandomFreeper

On further research, I throw 20-30 sea bream away as trash fish per season. They are full of worms and called sheephead. No thanks. Kind of like Bonefish sells seabass.. puleaze..


67 posted on 05/01/2012 5:19:04 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles
Sheepsheads are just one variety of Sparidae. There are over 100 species. I'm betting that wormy fish aren't going to find their way into fine-dining restaurants.

/johnny

68 posted on 05/01/2012 5:27:01 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: RegulatorCountry; AppyPappy

MMMmmmm.....

When I lived in Oklahoma I use to love Grandys fried chicken and Black Eyed Pea for Jumbalya and hush puppies.


69 posted on 05/01/2012 5:46:57 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: JRandomFreeper

If you’ve worked in a resraurant, you’d know that grouper and Amberjack are full of worms also. Who are you kidding??


70 posted on 05/01/2012 5:54:54 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles
And I've kicked back deliveries of crappy fish. There are degrees and difference in quality.

You can only clean up so much if you are grilling or pan-searing. A fish eat up with worms gets sent back to the vendor.

/johnny

71 posted on 05/01/2012 5:58:10 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Omg.. I not trying to combat you all night. Im glad you found a thread close to your heart..


72 posted on 05/01/2012 6:14:14 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles
You are the one talking combat. I'm just stating facts and my experience.

You are correct that great food is close to my heart. I've steamed squirrel dumplings with local greens for my dinner, because times were hard. But I won't budge on quality. I will have a good meal. I just adapt to available product, and sometimes, poverty.

/johnny

73 posted on 05/01/2012 6:24:30 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: goseminoles

He sure is good at making up multiple story lines in multiple posts, then.


74 posted on 05/01/2012 7:20:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

You have been quite the gentleman (I assume), random.


75 posted on 05/01/2012 7:29:56 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Concrete, heat, heavy sacks of ingredients, “non-ergonomic” placement of ovens, etc.
I swear, I remember the Army being easier than that job.


76 posted on 05/02/2012 6:44:01 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Little Ray
Well, if you can't stand the heat, inventory the walk-in. ;)

/johnny

77 posted on 05/02/2012 6:48:38 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Not overrated at all. By NYC standards for top quality steak, the price is actually pretty reasonable.

I have been in Texas for almost 6 years and still haven’t found a steak that could touch the Porterhouse from Luger’s.

Then again, it really is opinion. I am happy with the steak from Roadhouse.


78 posted on 05/02/2012 12:14:36 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Would you rather eat dog food or cat food? Guess it's Romney 2012.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I am sure I am late to this thread but Ruth’s Chris is utterly outstanding. It takes a big deal for me to go there but it is the best piece of beef ever put before me.


79 posted on 05/02/2012 12:27:03 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: eyedigress
I am sure I am late to this thread

Yes, you are, we are afraid. Manresa is booked for the next 9 months. Sorry. Please see us in 2013, following the inauguration of President Romney.

80 posted on 05/02/2012 12:32:40 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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