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Top Steakhouses

Beyond Baked Potatoes
Top Side Dishes

Get a Cue!
Best Barbecue in the City

Avoid the Wait
Make Restaurant Reservations Online

Top 10 Food Ratings
Find Out Who Gets the 19s, 18s and 17s

Where to Eat Now
Solidly satisfying prime beef and saucy accoutrements are to be found at Laurent Tourondel's BLT Prime. Not in the mood for steak? Wallse chef Kurt Gutenbrunner devises global cuisine for the Lower East Side's fashionable set at Thor. See all New & Notable restaurants.

What's Cooking in the City?
After nearly two years of negotiations, design plans and rumors, Charlie Trotter's restaurant venture in the Time Warner Center has been called off. In related news, Kenneth A. Himmel, chief exec of Related Companies (the center's co-developer), said he was pondering the possibility of replacing the rumored-to-be-ailing V Steakhouse. Read more restaurants news.

EVENTS:

Culinary Events
Bid on gourmet travel packages, unique culinary events and a variety of luxury lifestyle items at the 19th Annual James Beard Foundation Holiday Auction & Dinner, entitled "A Celebration of French Cuisine" on November 13. See all fine food events!

Winemaker Dinners
On October 20, join renowned chef Daniel Boulud at his restaurant Daniel for an evening filled with a sumptuous six-course fall tasting menu and wine from Domaine Clarence Dillon. See all top wine events.

WINE:

Food & Wine Pairing Here's What to Drink with Beef, Rabbit, Venison... A Sip of Fall Autumn Edition of the Wine Newsletter What's New and Popular New Releases

SHOP:

Ex Gotham Chef Opens Chocolaterie in Boston
Temper Chocolates

Prime Reading
Lobel's Prime Cuts and The Great Steak Book

LIFESTYLE:

HEALTH
Demeter Calls
Biodynamic Wines / Read more wine features.

SPAS
Check Out Olivia Newton-John's Australia Escape
Get the Skinny on the Spa Scene

AUTOMOBILE
Muscular, Beefy and Truly American
Dodge Magnum RT / Read all car reviews.

MOVIES
Frank and Witty Film Reviews
Capote / The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
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TRAVEL & HOTELS:

International Stays for Cowpokes at Heart
Top 10 Ranches Worldwide

Thriller Night
New York's Village Halloween Parade

Fall in the City
"The Best of New York"

Vacation Ideas in the Empire State
New York State Travel Guide and Elsewhere