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9 U.S. Restaurants with Top Ratings from Both Michelin and Fodor’s

Award winners, from coast to coast.

1. Alinea*, Chicago. The Windy City’s highest-rated restaurant features modern American cuisine and a seasonally driven tasting menu of 18 to 22 courses.

2. Atelier Crenn, San Francisco. This establishment presents contemporary French cuisine and a menu that describes its multicourse meals through expressive poetry.

3. Benu*, San Francisco. This carbon-neutral restaurant features a fixed menu of seafood and vegetables, plus a few meat courses.

4. The Restaurant at Meadowood, St. Helena, California. This Napa Valley establishment serves American cuisine in a formal dining room as well as poolside and picnic service in beautiful natural surroundings.

5. The French Laundry, Yountville, California. Located in a stone and timber building that was constructed as a saloon in 1900, this Napa Valley restaurant offers a menu of classic French cuisine that changes daily.

6. SingleThread Farm Restaurant*, Healdsburg, California. In addition to the restaurant, which has an 11-course tasting menu, the Sonoma Valley property includes an award-winning inn.

7. Eleven Madison Park*, New York. Located in the heart of Manhattan overlooking Madison Square Park, this restaurant offers an eight- to 10-course menu in its main dining room and an abbreviated meal in the bar.

8. Le Bernardin*, New York. This French seafood restaurant and lounge presents elegant meals, including Ossetra caviar, Dungeness crab, lobster tail, and black bass.

9. Per Se*, New York. This Big Apple interpretation of the French Laundry (see No. 5) features three tasting menus daily: five- and nine-course chef’s menus and a nine-course vegetable menu.

*Also top-rated by AAA

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