101 Best Restaurants in America Slideshow

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by Anonymous, Feb 26, 2011 @ 5:25 AM

you really want to see someone get to the last slide? really? this site, you just wonder how they picked them all... looks like you went to NY, LA, maybe near san fran... a few places in new orleans and then some pig stalls in the southern bible belt...

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The “barbecue” tradition of Santa Maria, north of Santa Barbara, based not on long-smoked pork but on tri-tip steak, grilled on live oak, helps define the cooking of California’s Central Coast. This homey, always bustling place extends and improves the basic idiom, and adds a knockout wine list, full of vintages made by the proprietor and his neighbors.

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