Survey: NYC dominates nation's 10 best restaurants  Le Bernadin
in Manhattan. (Feb. 20, 2013).  Le Bernadin in Manhattan. (Feb.
20, 2013). (Credit: Charles Eckert)  New York is the unofficial
culinary capital of the United States, with six of the country's
10 best restaurants calling the Big Apple home, according to a
new survey.  In its list of the nation's top 101 restaurants,
has the Gramercy Tavern at No. 2, the highest position for a New
York City spot.  Following were three more Manhattan eateries:
Le Bernardin at No. 3, Momofuku Ssäm Bar at No. 4 and Eleven
Madison Park. The top spot in the country was The French Laundry
in California.  New York, with 26 restaurants on the list, "is
still considered by most chefs the ultimate proving ground of
their talents and their ability to run a restaurant," said
Colman Andrews, editorial director of The Daily Meal.  Andrews
added that Gramercy Tavern had rightfully earned his high spot
on the list, saying "it's good as it's ever been."  But it
wasn't just the cit