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		<title>When Judges Meet &amp; Eat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sophie Gayot I was not the only one dining at über-chef Wolfgang Puck’s new restaurant at Hotel Bel-Air on a recent visit (luckily for the restaurant). The multi-talented Randy Jackson, who has been a judge on American Idol since 2002 — longer than anyone else — was sitting next to me. I had dined with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco’s Grand Cafe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Tiffany Maleshefski Though Grand Café continues to be a stalwart French restaurant that’s been around since 1995, consistency hasn’t really been one of its strong points. Located inside the Hotel Monaco San Francisco, the eatery has seen an impressive roster of venerable chefs lead its kitchen, including Victor Scargle, Mauro Pando, Denis Soriano and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gayot.com/blog/grand-cafe-san-francisco-alicia-jenish/</link>
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		<title>Buick Food &amp; Wine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The General&#8217;s Art by Alain Gayot The automobile is not only a favored mode of transportation but also an objet d’art. Cars are designed not just to be driven, but to be looked at and admired. They often come in flashy, eye-catching colors, adorned with shiny chrome and festooned with insignia, spoilers and racing stripes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A TOP Chef, for Sure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sophie Gayot My assistant has typed up hundreds of photo captions of menu items. But after typing the captions for the gallery below, he couldn’t help but comment for the first time, “That menu seems very interesting.” He is right. And more than that, the wild game menu created by Chris Crary, chef de [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gayot.com/blog/chris-crary-top-chef-season-9-whist-viceroy-santa-monica/</link>
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		<title>Foodie Fun for Everyone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Meryl Pearlstein With New York City Restaurant Week (January 16-February 10) already underway, foodies have hundreds of great restaurants from which to choose. But there are other food events and celebrations well worth checking out in the next few days, including the Kids Food Festival and the start of Mehtaphor’s Global New Year dinner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gayot.com/blog/kids-food-festival-jehangir-mehta-mehtaphor-restaurant/</link>
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		<title>Top 40 Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sophie Gayot Our team of writers and editors are working hard to compile the 2012 edition of the GAYOT.com Restaurant Issue, which includes GAYOT.com&#8217;s Top 40 Restaurants in the US, to be published soon. Subscribe now to be among the first to learn about the latest culinary trends, rising chefs, the restaurateur of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gayot.com/blog/melisse-josiah-citrin-top-40-restaurants-us/</link>
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		<title>Lunch at Michael Mina’s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Tiffany Maleshefski Michael Mina moved his eponymous restaurant out of the Westin St. Francis more than a year ago and into the building that formerly housed Aqua, the very restaurant where the chef started to develop his culinary cred. The move “home” had a lot of benefits, the biggest one probably being that it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gayot.com/blog/michael-mina-prix-fixe-lunch-menu/</link>
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		<title>Molecular Extravaganza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sophie Gayot Have you ever wondered: “What exactly is molecular gastronomy?” Read GAYOT.com’s guide to this avant-garde cuisine or taste it for yourself by dining at one of GAYOT.com&#8217;s Top 10 Molecular Gastronomy Restaurants in the U.S. If you are in the Los Angeles area this month, you can try chef Ryan Carson’s molecular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gayot.com/blog/molecular-pop-up-dinner-chef-ryan-carson-tiato-santa-monica/</link>
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		<title>Flying Lobsters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ben Narasin While a trip to Montauk or Maine can create the ultimate lobster memory, if you don’t have one planned, you can create a small part of that Eastern elegance anywhere a FEDEX box can fly. GetMaineLobster.com will ship crustaceans overnight, chilled and wrapped in seaweed, alive and comatose, for you to drop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gayot.com/blog/get-maine-lobster-delivered-fresh/</link>
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		<title>Viva Celestino Drago!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sophie Gayot For whatever reason, Celestino Drago is closing his restaurant Drago in Santa Monica at the end of January. We are sad to see it go, but we are happy because Celestino is working on some new projects. His Angeleno story started when he arrived in Southern California from Sicily at the age [...]]]></description>
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