We Know Where 2 Go

Frank Bruni's lead article - today's (02/27/08) New York Times - Dining Section - Coast to Coast, Restaurants That Count - details his visits to - 15 acclaimed, ambitious, promising or intriguing new restaurants...coast to cost...excluding New York City -

Included in the top 10 - Cochon - which liberates Cajun cooking from its deep-fried clichés. With its stylishly casual vibe, fatty abandon, worship of pork (cochon is French for pig) and fervent devotees, it’s a Momofuku on the Mississippi -

Almost making the cut - Lüke - the chef John Besh’s brasserie in New Orleans -

Scorecard - 2 of the 15 - "already" written of in Red Is Life  - Cochon (10/21/07) & Lüke (9/30/07) - i.e. - its fun to "compare" notes -