Londasia

Now comes China Tang (see London eats Asia below). It is just the most beautiful chinese restaurant in the world with food to match. China Tang is just a notch behind Royal China in London for food and places like Long Beach in Singapore but it deserves 5/5 anyway.

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Love great food and don’t mind paying for it? Head to San Francisco, which has the best restaurants in the country, but with prices second only to New York.
Those are among the findings of the 2006 Zagat Survey, the Bible of gourmands, who use it to decide where to eat in any of the 41 U.S. cities covered. Other findings, compiled from the experiences of 115,000 frequent diners:
— Meal prices have increased by 3 percent in the last year. An “average” dinner with one drink will set you back $37.61 in New York and $35.72 in San Francisco.
— Even those are bargains compared with restaurants in other world-class cities: An average dinner in a Tokyo restaurant is more than $70, and you’ll spend only a little less than that in London and Paris.
— The best food in Washington is found at the Japanese restaurant Makoto; dinner with one drink averages $61. Following close behind for quality: the Inn at Little Washington (Washington, Va.), Maestro (McLean, Va.), Citronelle (Washington) and L’Auberge Chez Francois (Great Falls, Va.). The cheapest: El Pollo Rico, where dinner at sites in Wheaton, Md., Arlington, Va., and Silver Spring, Md., will set you back $9.
Access to Zagat’s Web site (www.zagat.com) is $19.95 a year.
Michelin, the venerable publisher of guides to European restaurants and hotels, last week unveiled its first guide in North America: the Michelin Guide New York City 2006. In all, 468 New York City restaurants made the cut. And the top four: Per Se, Le Bernardin, Alain Ducasse and Jean-Georges.