The best part: a cafe close to the checkout counters where chefs stand over giant saut pans, preparing meals ready to be taken home.

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The Four Seasons won best restaurant, Babbo won for best new restaurant, Union Square Cafe for outstanding wine service and Le Bernardin for outstanding service.

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Today the train station he inspired rarely sees trains, instead its jazz cafe is among the city's best night spots.

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The Central Valley's premier supergroup, Admiral Radley, brings the band's hazy, dreamily rocking best to this late-summer show at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

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Just around the corner is Cafe Ladro, one of Seattle's best coffee shops.

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Crocodile Cafe, also in Belltown, is known as one of the country's best rock clubs.

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