Nearly 1,000 restaurants are included in this latest edition of the most trusted guide to eating well in New York. Concise reviews by the city's most respected food writers are enhanced by original features not found in any other restaurant guide, including: ambience, recommended dishes and complete price ranges for an accurate estimate of your final bill. Only The New York Times Restaurant Guide 2004 provides you with: * The very best restaurants as ranked by The Times' star-rating system. * The best restaurants in every neighborhood. * The best inexpensive restaurants in every neighborhood. * William Grimes' take on the latest trends in food and restaurants, and Eric Asimov's lists of the best places in New York for everything from oysters and sushi to the best places to eat with children. * New features on the best places for all-American favorites and New York classics, from burgers to pastrami. * Helpful lists that locate restaurants according to the type of cuisine they serve.

With a lack of sentimentality unusual for the genre, Venice Observed explores the history, art, architecture, religion, and cultural peculiarities of the City of Canals. Mordantly witty and legendarily wry, Mary McCarthy catalogs the impressions of such visitors to the city as Montaigne, Stendhal, Spencer, and Henry James, but paints her own wholly original depictions of the city. Her adoration of the immortal city enlivens her interest in everything from the Venetian preference for cats over dogs to Tintoretto's paintings in the Scuola di San Rocco. Concerning Venice's ubiquitous tourists, McCarthy notes, "The complaint against foreigners, voiced by a foreigner, chimes querulously through the ages, in unison with the medieval monk who found St Mark's Square filled with 'Turks, Libyans, Parthians, and other monsters of the sea.' Today it is the Germans we complain of, and no doubt they complain of the Americans, in the same words." Conversational yet deeply informed, Venice Observed is a classic travel narrative for the ages.

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