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Le Bernardin Wins Luxist's Editors' Choice Award for Best in Fine Dining

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Le Bernardin in New York is nominated for a Luxist Award for Best Seafood Restaurant

Considered "a legend in fine dining", Le Bernardin is one of the most influential seafood restaurants in America, if not the entire world. The midtown Manhattan restaurant holds three stars from the formidable The Michelin Guide and has a coveted four-star status from the New York Times.

Le Bernardin lives up to all that is expected from one of the finest restaurants in the world. From the exceptional food to the understated elegance of its dining room and formal, yet friendly service, Le Bernardin is the whole package, and thus it has been selected as Luxist's Editors' Choice Award Winner for the Best in Fine Dining.

A seafood restaurant with French roots, Le Bernardin's Executive Chef and co-owner is Eric Ripert. Born in Antibes and trained in France, the award-winning chef's background is impressive and includes stints at such legendary restaurants as the Tour D'Argent in Paris. He has worked with and learned from some of the most famous chefs around, including Joel Robuchon and Jean-Louis Palladin. A student no longer, Ripert is now considered one of their peers. "Ripert is unquestionably the finest seafood chef in the world," wrote Alan Richman in his article The Seven Temples of the Food World in the October 2007 issue of GQ.

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Le Bernardin Wins the Luxist Award for Best Seafood Restaurant

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A world-renowned New York restaurant that has received numerous awards, Le Bernardin, is also the winner of the Luxist Awards' Readers' Choice Award for Best Seafood Restaurant.

A seafood restaurant with French roots, Le Bernardin is known for its understated elegance. The mid-town Manhattan restaurant is beautifully and tastefully decorated: the restaurant reportedly spends $12,000 a month on fresh flowers. Its menu is extensive and includes such delectable dishes as warm lobster carpaccio, smoked yellow fin tuna, "prosciutto", bread crusted red snapper, crispy black bass and whole red snapper baked in rosemary and thyme salt crust. There are several tasting menus from which to choose, including Le Bernardin's Tasting Menu, which costs $138 per person, or $225 with wine pairing, per person. The prix fixe dinner costs $112 per person.

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Atlantic Fish: A Landmark for Boston's Best Seafood

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Atlantic Fish in Boston is nominated for a Luxist Award for Best Seafood

Known for serving the freshest fish and seafood, Boston's Atlantic Fish, is a nominee for a Luxist Award for Best Seafood Restaurant.

A classic Boston favorite, the restaurant prints its menus daily to reflect only the freshest seafood available that day. Atlantic Fish, which opened in 1978, focuses on the finest-quality seafood and the freshest catches of the day, offering guests a wine variety of daily seafood selections. Atlantic Fish is a seafood haven for locals and visitors to Boston alike, offering signature classics including its award-winning New England clam chowder, its famous baked stuffed Maine lobster, jumbo lump crab cake and a signature swordfish chop. The menu also features some contemporary seafood dishes such tuna bolognese, barbecue glazed salmon and sea bass chowder.

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Joe's Stone Crab: Serving Stone Crabs for Nearly a Century

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In 1913, Hungarian-born waiter Joe Weiss left New York for Miami Beach after his doctors suggested the climate would be better for his asthma. He and his wife, Jennie, opened a small lunch counter at a local bathing casino when Miami Beach was a sleepy backwater town. During its earliest years, people were not yet eating stone crabs--the local crustacean wasn't yet considered edible. Joe's Stone Crab changed that.

Anyone who's anyone visiting Miami Beach eats at Joe's Stone Crab. Indeed, the restaurant's clientelle includes some of the most famous names in America throughout the 20th century, from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to Al Capone, Gloria Swanson, J. Edgar Hoover, and Amelia Earhart. The restaurant is now run by the third and fourth generations of the Weiss family.

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Le Bernardin: The Most Celebrated Seafood Restaurant in New York

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A world-renowned New York restaurant that has received numerous awards, Le Bernardin, is a nominee for a Luxist Award for Best Seafood Restaurant.

A seafood restaurant with French roots, Le Bernardin is known for its understated elegance. The mid-town Manhattan restaurant is beautifully and tastefully decorated: the restaurant reportedly spends $12,000 a month on fresh flowers. Its menu is extensive and includes such delectable dishes as warm lobster carpaccio, smoked yellow fin tuna, "prosciutto", bread crusted red snapper, crispy black bass and whole red snapper baked in rosemary and thyme salt crust. There are several tasting menus from which to choose, including Le Bernardin's Tasting Menu, which costs $138 per person, or $225 with wine pairing, per person. The prix fixe dinner costs $112 per person.

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Nobu Miami Beach: Seafood with an Innovative Japanese Twist

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Nobu in Miami is nominated for a Luxist Award for Best Seafood Restaurant

Where do the wealthiest and most famous people dine while visiting Miami Beach? Look no further than the Miami Beach outpost of legendary Nobu restaurant. Known for its innovative, new style Japanese cuisine, much of which is seafood-based, Nobu Miami Beach is nominated for a Luxist Award for Best Seafood Restaurant.

Signature dishes include yellowtail with jalapeno, black cod with miso, Big Eye tuna tataki, Kumamoto oysters with toro salsa, roro tartar with caviar, and fresh yellowtail sashimi.

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L20: Chicago's Answer for Seafood from Around the World

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L20 in Chicago is nominated for a Luxist Award for Best Seafood Restaurant

Located in an historic building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, L20 is a modern seafood restaurant. Launched in 2008 by star chef Laurent Gras and Richard Melman of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, the restaurant is a worthy nominee for a Luxist Award for Best Seafood restaurant.

Gras, who hails from France, previously worked with such celebrity chefs as Alain Ducasse and Guy Savoy before coming to the U.S. in 1997 to take the helm of Peacock Alley at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. At L20, Gras draws from a repertoire of modern and traditional cooking with artful compositions. His ingredients come from all over the world, such as Spanish octopus from the Galicia region of Spain, hirame from the Kinki prefecture of Japan and codfish from Maine. Tai snapper is shipped twice a week all the way from New Zealand. L20 is one of the only restaurants in the U.S. that features Kindai blue fin tuna, which is sustainable and produced by Kinki University Fisheries Culture and Nursery Center in Japan.

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