ESQUIRE’S Best New Restaurants of 2010

BEST NEW RESTAURANTS OF 2010

By John Mariani




For the 26th year, I’ve been compiling Esquire‘s “Best New Restaurants of the Year,” and the competition only gets better, my narrowing down of choices tougher and tougher. Here are this year’s picks, which appear in the November issue, followed by a “Man About Town” report on the gala awards party in NYC. Continue reading “ESQUIRE’S Best New Restaurants of 2010”

Congrats to Julian Serrano for JULIAN SERRANO!

Take it away, Robin Leach...

Counter Intelligence: Esquire names Julian Serrano one of the best

By Robin Leach

Julian Serrano is picture in front of — where else? — Julian Serrano.

Grand Opening of Aria on Dec. 16, 2009. Julian Serrano is picture in front of — where else? — Julian Serrano.

Photo: Tom Donoghue/www.donoghuephotography.com

Star chef Julian Serrano is “over the moon” now that one of America’s most feared and revered food critics, John Mariani of Esquire, has bestowed blessings on his new tapas restaurant Julian Serrano in MGM CityCenter’s Aria as one of the 20 Best New Restaurants in 2010. Julian also runs his extraordinary Picasso in the Bellagio and will be doubly thrilled when he learns what my spies have discovered.

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