In this section we will develop Links to the Greatest and Best restaurants.

Keep coming back to Watch this space as it Grows!

Is the U.S. and Canada Distinguished Restaurants of North America. At last count 806 restaurants made it here. for 2006.
Click on the DiRoNA logo above to get the search results for all 806 restaurants (be patient, the search takes a little time).

T he AAA Five Diamond Restaurant Awards for 2006 are listed here .

The Guide Michelin is the traditional guide to Restaurants in Europe.
Ratings come in one, two or three stars. If you are not great you don't get listed at all. Click on their logo to go there.

 Gault Millau provides restaurant and hotel ratings for Europe with 3 separate sites: France, Germany and Austria. Clicking on the Logo to the left you will go to the French site.

Relais & Chateaux rates restaurants and hotels in over 50 countries including North America.
Restaurants are covered by the "Relais Gourmands" section. Download the entire guide for free and then select Relais Gourmands restaurants


The Zagat Survey covers 43 U.S. metropolitan areas + Toronto, Vancouver, Paris,
London and Tokyo. Be careful ratings are compiled through parton votes who are not necessarily gourmands. Look for the lists for "Top Food" and by cuisine such as "French." Click on their logo to go to one city from whence you may select another.


Wine Spectator grants 3 levels of Awards to restaurants with great Wine lists. Top SOmmeliers are not impressed by Wine Spectator but there is no one else. Area covered is North America with a few additions world - wide.

Gourmet Magazine creates its own lists and stories of the best American, Canadian and world-wide restaurants. You can find archived stories here. But be careful, a list of the 200 Best restaurants does not mean fine dining. There could be a "best burrito" in there. Still it is useful as long as you can do your own editing. Click on the Cover to the left to visit. Gourmet Magazine is one of several owned by the Conde Nast group including Conde Nast Traveller. Lists maintained by Conde Nast include such as Top Spas, Best Restaurants, Best hotels, Top Golf Resorts.

"America's Top 50 Restaurants" according to Gourmet are listed here .

The Gayot Guide: André Gayot—who with his friends, Henri Gault and Christian Millau, invented the term "Nouvelle Cuisine" in the early '70s—has been directing sophisticated travelers to the best restaurants, hotels, shops, sightseeing, and cultural attractions throughout the world for over forty years. Written by a team of savvy restaurant critics and food-and-travel experts, Gayot guidebooks are informative, honest and witty. Above all, they tell it like it is! The restaurant section is here: http://www.gayot.com/restaurants/toquetallymain.html