Guardian UK's List of must-eats...

[mtjandra38]

Hey fellow Parisian hounds!

No real purpose to this post, except that this list might be of interest:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyl...

L'ami Louis, Pierre Herme, Laduree all turn up..

[souphie]

The very concept of "50 best in the World" is so profoundly stupid and revolting, that I always wonder why I even read those lists.

[zuriga1]

They did get the pastrami sandwich right. :-)

[John Talbott]

And maybe the pizza but that's because 2 were Amuricans.

John Talbott
http://johntalbottsparis.typepad.com/...

[ChefJune]

I don't think so. There's a better place in New Haven tho I can't remember the name, and any list of BEST pizza that doesn't include the Original Uno's (in Chicago), is, imho, defective.;)

[Delucacheesemonger]

This argument should not be started. When l sent the list to a friend my only major wrong noted was Katz's

[souphie]

Pastrami I had at Hershel's in the Reading terminal market in Philadelphia (thank to Delucacheesemonger) was, in my opinion, head and shoulders better than Katz's.

Damn! They pulled me back in!

[zuriga1]

That's interesting because I lived in Phila. till I was 25 and was just back there in May. I've never had Hershel's pastrami but will certainly try it next visit. I usually get the corned beef at Katz's and don't particularly even like pastrami all that much.

[Delucacheesemonger]

Hershel's has corned beef as well, hot and hand sliced to order.

[zuriga1]

And I'm sure it's thinly sliced, unlike it is here in the UK. I do miss that a lot! The best pastrami and corned beef was at a small deli on South St. in Phila., but it's long gone.

[Splendid Wine Snob]

This is why I love you Souphie. You hit the nail on the head. every. time.

SWS

[John Talbott]

Interesting that Simon (tho he was on the "jury" of the "Restaurant" Mag one non?) also takes issue with it in Picque-Assiette.

John Talbott
http://johntalbottsparis.typepad.com/...

[PhilD]

Another thread - same topic

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/651976

[John Talbott]

Yes rather sad isn't it?
But all the contributors save two are from London which may explain it being as Francois Simon says of Bocuse in Picque-Assiette, so 1960's.

John Talbott
http://johntalbottsparis.typepad.com/...

[souphie]

Yes, those guys really should call us when they do that kind of list.

And don't you poo-pooh Bocuse.