
Scarpetta: three stars from Adam Platt.Photo: Noah Sheldon
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Scarpetta: three stars from Adam Platt.Photo: Noah Sheldon

Platt hated the room at Benoit, and it only got worse from there.Photo: Zach Desart

Adam Platt visits Bar Q in the West Village this week.Photo: Zach Desart

Brooklyn pizza beyond Di Fara and Totonno's.Photo: Noah Kalina

New York brings home the bacon in this week's magazine.Photo: Mitchell Feinberg; food styling by Sarah Jane Crawford

Bar Milano -- not quite three stars.Photo: Zach Desart

South Gate comes in for the Platt treatment this week.Photo: Brad Paris

Olana comes in under Adam Platt's microscope.Photo: Zach Desart

Really, what's better than a good grilled cheese sandwich? Or four?Photo: Noah Sheldon

If you can get Adam Platt to give you two stars for African food, you're doing something right.Photo: Zach Desart

This is what a three-star restaurant looks like.Photo: Eric Laignel/Courtesy of Adour Alain Ducasse at the St. Regis New York

Platt is ready to admit that the room is handsome, but…Photo courtesy Bar Boulud

The good old days.Illustration by Wes Duvall

Dovetail's three-star review, coming right up.Photo: Noah Sheldon

Inside Bar BlancPhoto: Noah Sheldon

Alain Ducasse at AdourPhoto: Hans Gissinger

The hallowed halls of meat: Primehouse New York.Photo: Noah Sheldon

And imagine, it'll all come down in a few months.Photo: Michael Harlan Turkell

You call that a pizza oven? THIS is a pizza oven Photo: Jeremy Liebman

Hill Country knew what Adam Platt's rating would be, and made it a design element.Photo: Morini for New York Magazine

Quantity didn't equal quality for Platt.Photo: Lea Golis for New York Magazine

Platt loves the silent, solitary art of sushi. Especially the silent part.Photo: RJ Mickelson

Just try to find Adam Platt in this picture.Photo: RJ Mickelson for New York Magazine

Platt versus Psilakis, round two at Anthos.Photo: RJ Mickelson/Veras for New York Magazine
After much speculation, the 2007 nominees for the James Beard Awards, the Oscars of the restaurant world, are in. Adam Platt, Rob Patronite, Robin Raisfeld, and Grub Street all filled out Beard brackets (or at least revealed whom we’d like to see win) on Friday. Here's how the academy's coming down.
In this week’s issue of the magazine, things are a little topsy-turvy. Back from London after sampling (and writing about) that city's burgeoning restaurant scene, Adam Platt eats at a place that hasn’t technically opened, and Rob and Robin provide some choices for killing time at one that reopens this week. And if the winter weather is keeping you home, the Underground Gourmet provides a recipe for little purple potatoes, cooked simply up and smashed with a fork, just the way they do it at Gramercy Tavern.

Lucali's, the best neighborhood pizzeria.Photo: Julien Jourdes/The New York Times/Redux
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