L.A. DINERS GETTING GOOD DEALS ON MEALS, ZAGAT SURVEY SAYS.Byline: Larry Lipson Daily News Restaurant Critic Stop whining about your restaurant tab. It would cost you more if you lived in Chicago or San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . It would cost you a heck of a lot more if you found yourself dining out in London or Paris. Parisians pay more than twice as much as Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. residents for their meals, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the latest Zagat Survey Zagat Survey (pronounced za-GAT)[1] was established by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979 as a way to collect and correlate the ratings of restaurants by diners. For their first guide, covering New York City, the Zagats surveyed their friends. . It puts the average per-person cost here at $24.86 compared with Paris at $50.81. And when the whining includes good French wine at a haute restaurant, the disparity is evidently even greater. Zagat tells us that the average cost at the 20 most expensive restaurants in Paris is almost $130, while in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of it's around $92. But get this: In L.A. it's less than $50. Of course, Parisians would probably say their food is better. Ditto for those haughty haugh·ty adj. haugh·ti·er, haugh·ti·est Scornfully and condescendingly proud. See Synonyms at proud. [From Middle English haut, from Old French haut, halt Manhattanites. Los Angeles has more middle-range restaurants, explains local Zagat Survey co-editor Merrill Shindler. ``New York has more high end,'' he declared. Anyway, if you ask a Valley gastronome where he or she eats, the likelihood is that Cafe Bizou in Sherman Oaks would be a popular answer. And the tab would just about hit the Zagat average on the nose. Cafe Bizou, you see, is the second-most popular restaurant in Los Angeles in the 1999 Zagat Survey, knocking Chinois on Main in Santa Monica out of the runner-up slot while slipping in just behind the perennial favorite, Patina. Confirming the average cost of an upscale French-style dinner at Bizou at $25, co-owner Philippe Gris points out that this includes salad, entree, dessert - ``everything, even a glass of wine,'' he said. |
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