Top Ten Italian Restaurants around the World - Antico???

[birdy30]

Yep, stumbled upon this today. I don't know how I feel about this other than I think there may be better Italian restaurants that aren't even located in the No. End.

Goodnuss Guinness - pardon me for not knowing how attach this link!

www.foodanddrinkdigital.com (the top ten will be on the right side of the page

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Birdy

[BobB]

What can you expect from a "food" magazine whose slogan is not Make, Eat, Enjoy but Make, Market, Sell? These guys make The Phantom Gourmet look legit.

[liberty_plaza]

I have been to Antico. Pretty good food.....and the North End is the best....

[jjbourgeois]

Just noticed my first post finally appeared. Ignore my further ranting.

Putting Antico in the same category as Spiaggia?!?!?! They can not be serious about this list. No way!

[jjbourgeois]

This has to be a joke. Is this related to The Onion?!? I've been to Bottega and Spiaggia. Antico is no where near those two. And to lump Antico in with them is an insult.

[Kat]

According to this chick, only 2 of the top 10 Italian restaurants IN THE WORLD are actually in Italy? Ha ha, too funny.

[hiddenboston]

I'm not surprised--Italy doesn't have any good restaurants.

[MC Slim JB]

So overrated. I went there once, could not get chicken parm smothered with ooey-gooey cheese.

http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/

[MC Slim JB]

Good lord: the very next day after I made this joke, The Situation (of "Jersey Shore" fame, for you folks smart enough to shun reality TV) said the exact same thing, except he meant it, on Leno: http://videos.nymag.com/video/The-Situation-Is-Shocked-By-Foo

http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/

[treb]

so much for the parm thing!

[grant.cook]

This writer totally missed it - Sabatino's Italian Kitchen in East Arlington is EASILY somewhere in the top 5

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Sabatino's Italian Kitchen
242 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA 02474

[hiddenboston]

I agree. People from as far away as Tuscany fly directly to Arlington (to the little-known airport behind the high school) to go to Sabatino's.

[nlg]

I enjoy going to Antico Forno - decent place for us to go for lunch, reduced parking at garage #7. But, in a top ten listing of Italian restaurants in the *world*? Huh? I'm guessing these may be places the author and her friends have eaten at over the years.

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Antico Forno
93 Salem Street, Boston, MA 02113

[hiddenboston]

Maybe it was the top 10 in her world.

[MC Slim JB]

As someone else said here, if your World's Top 10 Italian Restaurants list is not mostly based in Italy, something is profoundly wrong with you. Most such lists are indefensible, but this one is unspeakable.

http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/

[teezeetoo]

think about the absurdity of the concept: top 10 in the world. I don't care how much you travel or how often you eat out, how many Italian restaurants have you been to and compared? If she called it "my favorite 10 Italian restaurants" nobody could disagree with her: they're her favorites. But ascribing some universal status to your limited taste and experiences is a form of uber-narcissism.

[MC Slim JB]

Yep, that's exactly what I mean by "indefensible". In this case, I don't think narcissism is involved: this is a pure pay-for-play concept, like the Phantom Gourmet.

http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/

[Gabatta]

and the majority of published 'best of' or 'top x' lists...

[Science Chick]

Indeed.....if you checkout the link about the author - provided by Bob Dobalina, above - you'll see her credentials are really just in the digital publishing world. Kudos for that, but hardly qualifies as a food critic. LOL, I guess my credentials are no better for that and here I be!! But I know my limits....I would never profess to make such a list! And Antico Forno is one of the most mediocre places we have in the city, on top of it. (thrown in to assuage the moderators.....).

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Antico Forno
93 Salem Street, Boston, MA 02113

[treb]

Maybe not even in the top 10K but, I just had an excellent grilled baby octopus over angel hair pasta at DiParma's in Winthrop.

[CocoDan]

Totally Nuts!
C.

[barleywino]

Among the USA entries, they should at least have Philadelphia's Vetri (which Batali called the best on the East Coast)

[Bob Dobalina]

A bit about the author...http://www.pr.com/press-release/327446

[hiddenboston]

No Olive Garden?

[nsenada]

You beat me to it!

[hiddenboston]

They don't call me the Waco Kid for nothing.

[nsenada]

Never seen snark that quick...feel...so cold...tell my wife...that I loved...that heritage pork she bought me the other day...

[Science Chick]

What a joke. Even if I *were* to pick an Italian restaurant in Boston to be on that list, Antico Forno sure wouldn't be the one.

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Antico Forno
93 Salem Street, Boston, MA 02113

[MC Slim JB]

That list is an unfunny joke, a travesty.

http://mcslimjb.blogspot.com/

[grant.cook]

Having eaten a lot in Italy, I discount a study that has only 2 of the top 10 Italian restaurants actually in Italy (or even Europe overall), and 7 of them in the United States.

Gee, we love Italian food, but boy, those Italians have no freakin' idea how to cook it..

[chickendhansak]

Also fun is the fact that Australia's single entry into the top ten in the world is merely "one of" Australia's best. Surely by this definition it IS the best? (Sorry, I mean "Autsralia’s".)

[Bellachefa]

I think its very funny. I once wrote the name of Oprah's favourite Italian restaurant - some place in Manhattan. I figured that with her everchanging figure she'd know. A year or two later we finally made it there and it was both expensive and mediocre at best.