Not content with just NYC, one Frank Bruni takes it upon himself to rank his 10 favorite new restaurants across the country. His rankings will take shape out over the next month. Coi and Ubuntu make the top eight; Ad Hoc misses the cut, because of cookies, apparently: "Certain judgment calls — leaving Ad Hoc out of the top 10, for example — were tougher than others. I happened to visit Ad Hoc, which serves the same predetermined meal to every diner, on one of its every-other-Monday fried chicken nights, and I had some of the best fried chicken of my life. But the bean salad before it and the chocolate chip cookies after weren’t nearly as impressive." [NYT]
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