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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love the people who are just trotting out new restaurNt names. Yes we get it, you read tom sietsema too. [/quote]

This.  Also, people are confusing their *favorite* restaurant with the *best* restaurant.  There's an objective component to *best* - technical preparation, food sourcing, service, presentation.   While at some point it does come down to personal preference, a restaurant has to clear a certain basic threshold to be under consideration.  We can quibble about Rasika, CityZen, Komi, Eve's tasting room (though it's not in DC), Palena, Vidalia, and I thought the Vermillion suggestion was interesting (though I wouldn't necessarily agree).  But Central? Red Hen? Le Diplomate? Come on.  Please go back to checking out the latest fedora styles and let the grown-ups have a conversation.

Anyone who nominated any of the relatively new restaurants on 14th Street as the *best* restaurant in DC needs to get his or her head out of his or her ass.  Many are good; some are very good.  None of them are even in the conversation for *best.*  And they're not trying to be.

And for those who nominated Le Diplomate - it's a chain reataurant.  Stephen Starr has a tried and true (and very successful) formula, and I haven't had a truly bad meal at any of his restaurants.  But they're all pretty much the same.  Alma de Cuba, for example, or Buddaken, are basically identical to Le Diplomate, after adjusting for decors and nationality focus.  [/quote]

Good food is ALWAYS subjective and furthermore "good food" is extremelu sustible to trends and careful marketing.[/quote] With respect to your first point - no.  As I said, there is a significant objective component to "good food" - and even more so to the "best restaurant."  With respect to your second point - I have no idea what you are trying to say.  [/quote]

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