pltrgyst wrote on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:17:31 -0400:
??>> It may be sour g.s, given that I don't think I could
??>> have the patience to try to make a reservation at the
??>> French Laundry, but I don't think the food would be all
??>> that healthy and the bill would have my Scottish forebears
??>> spinning in their graves. That's also true, even if it's
??>> easier to get reservations, at the other reputed contender
??>> for the US best restaurant: the one that calls itself "The
Inn at
??>> Little Washington".
p> Hmmm, dunno, James. We go to the Inn fairly regularly, but
p> I'd say the Laundry is a cut above, particularly in
p> creativity. It's also true that the two times we've dined
p> there, the bill was roughly a third higher than our usual
p> bill at the Inn. Granted, that's highly wine-determined.
One of the things, besides price and richness of the food, that
might deter me from The Inn at Little Washington is the distance
to the place. Do you stay over at their hotel after dinner?
James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
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