摘要：The chef of Australia’s most expensive restaurant, Vue de monde, is back with a Manhattan follow-up to his first culinary guide (Shannon Bennett’s Paris, reviewed in the last edition of Transnational Literature). His views are supplemented by those of his ‘friends with opinions’, who include noted television chefs Luke Mangan, Matt Moran, Tobie Puttock and Neil Perry – if none of these names is familiar to you, you might want to consider choosing another guidebook – plus a clutch of lesser knowns and unknowns who share Bennett’s enthusiasm for New York’s finest. Eating and accommodation, that is: don’t waste your time searching within for advice on museums, art galleries, sightseeing and shopping. As Bennett says in his Preface: ‘I hope it will be a book that you can walk along the street with and not be labelled as a tourist with a travel book but as a foodie heading to their next story-filled destination.’ Personally, I think anyone wandering Manhattan streets clutching a book with a picture of the Chrysler Building and ‘New York’ in large letters on the cover is going to be labelled a tourist. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Shannon.ross.
