Zagatsurvey 2001 New York City Restaurants (Zagat Survey: New York City Restaurants Leather)

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Summary: A must have for the new visitor or the native New Yorker
Review: Among the plethora of guide books to New York restaurants and and nightlife, the Zagat guides (there is also a Zagat guide to Nightlife and a Zagat guide to specialty food shops)have always stood alone at the top- and with good reason.

No other book can came close to matching the accuracy of these handy little guides. Easily organized alphabetically in the main section and then reorganized again in the back by both type of establishment (type of cuisine in the case of the restuarant guide) and location (ie. upper east side, village, etc.) all the best restuarants are right at your fingertips.

Each establishment is rated on a scale of one to thirty in three categories (food, decor, and service in the restaurant guide) and then there is a small paragraph blurb below about the place and what its like. I have found these descriptions to be TOTALLY accurate and more than once have gone to a place and described it to my friends only to find that the Zagat guide had the exact same thing to say.

All in all, a very accurate guide. An indispensible tool whether or not you are visitng NYC for the first time or, like me, you live here and are just looking for somewhere new to go!

I'd give these suckers 10 stars if that was an option!

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Summary: No more aimless and hungry wandering...
Review: I am new to New York city and have been discovering good (and bad) places to eat in a hit or miss fashion. I was given this book as a gift and it has become more useful than the Vindigo guide I have been using on my Palm Pilot.

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Summary: the bible for any decent gourmet
Review: It cannot be missed on your shelf or bag when ever you want to have a wonderful dinner in NY. This book is deeply reliable even for a very demanding person for food as me. The formula of the book allows you to get to know whatever you are looking for in a few minutes. Comments are brief but give you the exact idea of the place. No other food guide book can be so reliable and useful as this one here. Try also the one on London and Paris which are fantastic too. We are all looking forward to the one on Milan.......

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Summary: A wonderful guide
Review: The Zagats put out a class A guide to New York City restaurants giving three ratings for each place: (1)quality of food, (2) decor, and (3) quality of service. The guide also includes what the average price of a dinner with wine is for each restaurant rated. There is no long description of the menu, ambience etc. However, the short blurbs are often humorous and the basic information is given.

The restaurants are listed in alphabetical order but there are extenssive lists of different categories, such as French (and every other ethnic category), vegetarian, kosher and just about every other traditional category you can think of. There are nummerous other categories as well, such as best places if you are eating alone, best "power" places, most romantic, best places for kids, for teens etc. I have barely scratched the surface .. the breakdown of categories is very extensive and I find them to be extremely useful.

Like I say, there is no extensive description of the restaurants rated but, there are a lot of them that are reviewed and this is a wonderful source for quickly finding the right place to eat amongst hundreds of choices. An additional feature is that the book is not restricted to Manhattan; good restaurants from all the boroughs are included. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: Do Not Leave Home Without This Book
Review: This book has a permanent place on every book shelf I own. A true New Yorker will live and die by this book. Tim and Nina Zagat began their restaurant reviews as a hobby for friends but it grew into a monster and now they reach out to diners around the world to rate and review any and all eating establishments in New York and around the world.

They have also branched out into rating hotels around the world. The reviews found in these books are very accurate as they are rated by real eaters (include this particular diner).

The book is arranged alphabetically however diners can locate restaurants divided by location, type of food, top ratings, most popular as well as by any special features. Always helpful and handy, I highly recommend this book for a fabulous meal in New York.