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  Awards

Highlights

Category Restaurant Region
Best Restaurant Overall Inn at Little Washington Washington, DC
Best View Signature Room on 95th Chicago, IL
Best Interior Decor Farallon San Francisco, CA
Best Romantic Decor Le Cirque Las Vegas, NV
Best Food for Dumpiest Decor Painted Bench Denver, CO
Best Service after a Complaint Ciao Bella Minneapolis, MN
Best Live Opera Singing Wait Staff Bravo Ristorante Denver, CO
Best Breakfast Lou Mitchell's Chicago, IL
Best Dessert
(Golden Pineapple)
mc2 San Francisco, CA
Best Steakhouse Morton's Minneapolis, MN
Best Hip Japanese Miyagi's Los Angeles, CA
Best Airport Eatery Pour La France Denver, CO
Best Traditional Japanese Makoto Washington, DC
Best Chinese Banquet China Harbor Seattle, WA
Best Tapas Cafe Baba Reba Chicago, IL
Best Vegetarian Zen Palate New York, NY
Best Soup
(Lobster Bisque)
Red Light Chicago, IL
Best Australian Lamb mc2 San Francsico, CA
Best Ostrich Con Fusion Chicago, IL
Best All-U-Can-Crabs Bethesda Crab House Washington, DC
Best Brazillian Rodizio Rodizio Grill Denver, CO
Best Seaweed Salad Nobu New York, NY
Best Stone Crab Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant Miami, FL
Best Prime Rib Lawry's Los Angeles, CA
Best Crepes Crepe Montagne Vancouver, BC
Best Soul Cooking Georgia Brown's Washington, DC
Best Soft Shell Crab Sandwich Tony & Joe's Washington, DC
Best Wedding Reception Tamcrest New Jersey

Lowlights

Category Restaurant Region
Worst Cold Pizza Incident Pizzeria Uno Washington, DC
Rudest refusal to Turn on the Heat Pagoda Chinese Restaurant Jacksonville, FL
Most Likely to Throwup and Get Shot Afterwards Supreme Caribbean Restaurant Jacksonville, FL
Rudest Hostess Service
(got Kicked out)
European Cafe Denver, CO
Worst Self-Proclaimed Authentic Chinese Uncle Bao's Texas
Worst Mongolian Barbeque Lim's Mongolian Barbeque Denver, CO
Rudest Service for Upscale Restaurant Nirvana New York, NY
Most Appropriate Nickname
(Shanghai Hurl)
Shanghai Pearl Washington, DC

Records

Category Restaurant Region
Biggest Portions Bellisimo Delaware
Most Variety of Beers
(900)
Brickskeller Washington, DC
Largest Sandwich Stage Deli of New York New York, NY
Longest Acronym for Restaurant Name E.I.B.O.S. Utah
Largest Fork Ever Seen Radex Denver, CO
Saltiest Dish
(Would you like some beef noodles with that salt?)
Nozawa Colorado
Biggest Holographic Letdown
(Hyped up holographic waterfall is not that cool)
Asia de Cuba New York, NY
Most Pitchforks in a Restaurant Gordon's House of Fine Eats San Francisco, CA
Most Alligators Around Clark's Fish Camp Jacksonville, FL
Most Mirrors Mattie's House of Mirrors Denver, CO

Creativity

Category Restaurant Region
Most Unique Soup
(Chilled Avocado Soup with Watermelon Salsa & Shaved Beef)
Gamay New Orleans
Cutest Dessert Holder
(Monkey Sculpture with Long Curling Tail to Hold Plantains)
Mango Chicago, IL
Most Elaborate Dessert
(Painter's Palette)
Inn at Little Washington Washington, DC
Most Unique Sandwich
(Fries and Coleslaw in the Sandwich)
Primanti Brothers Pittsburgh, PA
Coolest Dungeon Decor Sevilla at the Icehouse Denver, CO
Most Unique Transformation
(used to be a mine shaft)
Baby Doe's Denver, CO
Most Appropriate Logo Giggling Grizzly Denver, CO
Coolest Video Walls Cafe Odyssey (Various)
Funniest Slogan
("Sushi To Die For")
Blowfish San Francisco, CA
Coolest Optical Illusion Decor Asia Nora Washington, DC
Most Uniquely Themed Potatoes
(Golf Balls, Chip Shots, Tees)
Putters North Carolina

Miscellaneous

Category Restaurant Region
Most Likely to Give You Bad Breath (Garlic) Stinking Rose San Francsico, CA
Most Blatant Attempt at Advertising
(In the Menu)
Cheesecake Factory (Various)
Pinkest Restaurant Deerwood Diner Jacksonville, FL
Rudest on Purpose Ed DeBevicks Chicago, IL
Most Random Incident
(Rodeo dude pays us to watch his saddle)
Mexico City Lounge Denver, CO
Most likely to walk into a screen door Chiang Mai Thai Minneapolis, MN
Yellowest Restaurant Lalime's San Francisco, CA
Most Likely to Bump Into a Transvestite AsiaSF San Francisco, CA
     

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