The Mr. Five Star team suggests the French Laundry to be one of the top five restaurants in the United States. Restaurants of this high caliber are very difficult to judge which of them is the better. I don’t think anyone will argue with me on this point. Just bring a credit card with a large limit and prepare for one of the finest meals you may ever have. The French Laundry is the is the best of the best. There are dinners—the kind you go out for because you’re hungry—a ...

With breathtaking elegance and sophistication, the Georgian Room is reminiscent of an Addison Mizner estate dining room. This is where life's greatest moments are aptly celebrated. Among its features are a stately fireplace with a carved stone mantel, gold and crystal chandeliers, and impeccable tableside service. Fine details, including hand-painted china, silver flatware and European linens grace the presen ...

I was supposed to have become an actor said Patrick O'Connell owner of the Inn at Little Washington but soon found the living theater of the restaurant world more compelling than the stage. Running a restaurant allows me to be the producer, director, set designer, and lead player in a wonderfully fractured nightly performance in which the world of complete illusion in the dining room is brilliantly juxtaposed with the blood-and-guts reality of the kitchen. Sometimes it seems like a Broadway ...