Boston Magazine’s “50 Best Restaurants”

For their first issue of the new year, Boston Magazine researched and then listed The Fifty Best Restaurants — based on a compilation of data that included opinions from the all the local food reviewers, food magazines, newspapers and Internet sites. They sorted the raw data, weighed their own opinions a little heavier and came up with the following list.

I thought it would be fun to check off those I’ve been to and to set a goal to eat at those I have not. In fact, once we start “date night” up again, I plan to use this as my priority list. Speaking of priority, this list appears in the order of highest “score” to lowest. Most of my favorites are on here… so I think the list is fairly accurate; though, there are definitely a few I would have swapped around. And I’m definitely more anxious and excited to eat at some of these places than others… but the majority vote is generally correct, so we’ll see.

1. O Ya
2. L’Espalier
3. No. 9 Park
4. Clio
5. Aujourd’hui
6. Radius
7. Hungry Mother
8. Hamersley’s Bistro
9. Oleana
10. Cragie on Main
11. Meritage
12. Salts
13. Oishii
14. Uni
15. Ten Tables
16. Neptune Oyster
17. Icarus
18. Persephone
19. Mistral
20. Sorellina
21. Rialto
22. B & G Oysters
23. Troquet
24. Lumiere
25. Pigalle
26. Toro
27. Blue Ginger
28. Upstairs on the Square
29. Excelsior
30. Benatti
31. Sage
32. T.W. Food
33. Locke-Ober
34. Taranta
35. Rendezvous
36. L’Andana
37. The Butcher Shop
38. Via Matta
39. Dante
40. Scampo
41. 51 Lincoln
42. Lineage
43. Bistro 5
44. Grill 23
45. East Coast Grill
46. Estragon
47. Union Bar and Grille
48. Il Capriccio
49. Bin 26 Enoteca
50. Avila

That leaves 26 Restaurants I need to try this year. Pretty aggressive goal.

Any other thoughts, comments or arguments regarding this list???