On 6/5/2011 1:03 PM, Landon wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:35:23 -0400, James Silverton
> > wrote:
>
>> I have a few memories: the first Michelin starred restaurant we ever ate
>> at in Paris, Chez Mercier, Au Chapeau Rouge in Dijon (Magnifique!) and
>> La Antiga Casa de Botin in Madrid (the oldest restaurant in the world).
>> All of these were in 1965. All thro' our marriage my wife and I ate very
>> well indeed a few times a year at Chez Francois in Washington DC (and
>> then in Great Falls, VA). I also still remember our best ever
>> Smorgesbord in Norway with a wonderful view from above the
>> Hardangarfjord (I think.)
>
> Thanks James, but I was looking for the ONE best of the best that
> you've experienced in the world. That's why I made the title of the
> thread a singular; "restaurant" instead of "restaurants".
>
> If you HAD to pick just one, which would it be and why? What meal
> there was your favorite and why?
>
> Thanks man. I'm trying to get a list of places that are literally the
> "Best of the best".

I think it would be the Chapeau Rouge in Dijon, France. It only had one
Michelin star when we ate there but it now has two, I believe.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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