Incanto, Absinthe, and Range All Dropped From the Top 100
Also, longtime Berkeley favorites Rivoli and Corso get dropped as well.
Also, longtime Berkeley favorites Rivoli and Corso get dropped as well.
Also, we're guessing Bistro Aix and Va de Vi are getting dropped.
The 'Weekly' critic thinks the 'Chron' could be a little less Cal-Euro-centric.
We went there last year; we'll go there again.
Bauer calls the last year "the most exciting" for restaurants "in more than a quarter century," meaning his entire tenure at the Chronicle. Thus a bunch of restaurants had to fall off the list.
Mr. Bauer reveals the 26 new additions to the list, a few days ahead of publication.
"It's been a tough day. Could we go to one of the Top 100 restaurants with a one-bell rating?" An anonymous budding foochebag, age 13 or so, overheard near the Academy of Sciences by a Garchik tipster. Mr. Bauer,...
If we were the ones writing this list, there are five or six more newer places that would be knocking off some of the old.
Some familiar notables of 2009 like Beard nominees Frances, RN74, and Flour + Water are predictable additions; new deletions include Fonda, Kokkari, and Ton Kiang.
• Mr. Bauer's 15th annual Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants list comes out on Sunday, and he says that knocking the last three off felt like "[sending] my dog to the pound." [Between Meals] • Should food writers and editors...