<p>I’m still trying to figure out what half of those items mean on the Alinea menu. Do you get to chose as many menu items as you want for $195.00?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.alinea-restaurant.com/pages/menus/menu.html[/url]”>http://www.alinea-restaurant.com/pages/menus/menu.html</a></p>
<p>You get the entire menu for $195 RJK…and you must select the entire menu.</p>
<p>I was there about a year after the building opened and ate at Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s now defunct “V Steakhouse”. The service and menu were lacking and I can see why it closed. </p>
<p>I don’t know, it seems like a high end food court. I forgot about the Whole Foods in the basement! Haha! It just doesn’t give a very special first impression.</p>
<p>Still some of my favorite restaurants in New York are Four Seasons and Daniel. Granted these aren’t ***, but their settings and dining rooms seem special - especially Four Seasons Pool Room overlooking Park Avenue lights at Christmastime.</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh I guess Daniel has been upgraded back again to ***.</p>
found myself in chicago this past Friday-Sunday. Sad to report that L2O apparently has been closed for a while.
Yes, but there is a new restaurant called Grace, and it has just been awarded a three star rating by Michelin. Unfortunately, I will not be going to Chicago anytime soon.
But UCB, you should take pleasure in the fact that by going to Per Se, you are helping a tenant pay his rent to a Michigan alum…Steve Ross… :-*
I forgot they were, “Related.” 
I will be in NYC next week. I made reservations at Eleven Madison Park (probably the best restaurant in NY today, IMHO), Per Se and Le Bernardin.
^ not all eyes will weep for you!!! 
dont eat too much!
Woe is me! Luckily, two of those restaurants have prix fixe tasting menus, so I don’t have to worry about choosing!
I’m very jealous! UMich alumni foodies, unite!
Did you make the reservations? Or did your Centurion Card concierge make the reservations? 
The best food I have had in Ann Arbor is at Pacific Rim.
ClueBu and gratefulalum, for UMich foodies, I have to say, one of Ann Arbor’s biggest failings is its complete lack of haute cuisine. Not a single world class restaurant. Ann Arbor has very good variety and options for college students, but not for foodie alums who do not mind splurging a little.
UCB, for something as important as a dinner at those restaurants, I will not trust making the reservations to anybody but myself!
Detroit has some good ones. Selden Standard and Jo Muers. I hope I spelled them correctly.
“Not a single world class restaurant.”
Cities throughout this country much larger than A2 do not have a world class restaurant. If the demand were there, they would exist.
“…but not for foodie alums who do not mind splurging a little.”
Dinner for two at Per Se is easily over $300.00/person. That’s not a little splurge; it’s a car payment!
I think Ann Arbor generally has high quality food. Don’t forget there are thousands of faculty as well as persons not affiliated with the university. The Gandy Dancer, IMHO, is overrated.
Detroit does have some good ones (the Lark was quite good in its day, but I am not sure if it is still around), but none that I consider world class. Even then, Detroit is not Ann Arbor.
“Cities throughout this country much larger than A2 do not have a world class restaurant. If the demand were there, they would exist.”
That may be true rjk, but that is their loss. There are dozens of world class restaurants located in small towns, hundreds of miles from major cities. Restaurant like Maison Troisgros, Maison Pic, Pres D’Eugenie, Regis Marcon, Lameloise, Bernard Loiseau or L’Arnsbourg (all of which are locate in tiny towns nowhere close to a major city). Considering the size, wealth and sophistication of the population within a 50 mile radius of Ann Arbor, the sheer number of alums and parents who visit Ann Arbor annually and the foodies across the globe who travel especially to sample the cuisines of such fine restaurants, 1-2 such restaurants would be overbooked late August to early May. Admittedly, it would probably be closed from mid-May until mid-August, but that is not unusual for restaurants located in small cities.
“There are dozens of world class restaurants located in small towns, hundreds of miles from major cities. Restaurant like Maison Troisgros, Maison Pic, Pres D’Eugenie, Regis Marcon, Lameloise, Bernard Loiseau or L’Arnsbourg (all of which are locate in tiny towns nowhere close to a major city)”
Which American cities are the above located near?