Zagat America's Top Restaurants

by Zagat Survey

Based on the opinions of over 77,000 everyday restaurant-goers, this guide reveals what the customers really think about their restaurants. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160478007X
• ISBN13: 9781604780079
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Zagat Survey
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.1" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Travel Tool

If you are going to a really large city, I would recommend the City specific guides over the America's Tops (and thus the 4 stars instead of 5). Still, this guide is a must have for the traveler or even for your own city if it does not have a city specific guide. The information is very accurate and up to date. However, there is a disadvantage to the only top restaurants approach. Also, for example, the Cleveland section includes no Akron restaurants. That may be helpful for the business traveler staying in a downtown hotel, but for most other people it would paint a distorted or limited picture of the available choices. Still, for the price, this is a great deal.

Good Basic Restaurant Reviews

This book is not necessarily cutting edge since new restaurants are opening all the time and review books like this can quickly become outdated. That being said, Zagats does give the traveler a basic knowledge of restaurants, especially many of the "high end classic restaurants" in major cities throughout the US.

Great for Travelers-but be careful!

Zagat survey's are a great way of finding out "what's hot" when visiting a new city. The rankings are usually fairly accurate in large cities like New York. This version takes the top picks from local guides across the country. This can be a little misleading if you try to compare 2 restraunts in different cities, since the rankings are do in large part to the opinions of locals. For example, the highest score for food for a New York restaurant is 28 out of 30. Seattle on the other hand, has a restaurant ranked at 29. Does Seattle have a restaurant with better food than New York's finest? Absolutely not. If you keep this in mind and look at the relative ranking within each city, you will be much happier.