Ten restaurants and American cuisine

Delmonico's : America's first restaurant

Antoine's : haute Creole

Schrafft's : seeking out the female customer

Howard Johnson's : as American as fried clams

Mamma Leone's : Italian entertainment

The Mandarin : "the best Chinese food east of the Pacific"

Sylvia's : the soul of Harlem

Le Pavillon : midcentury French

Four Seasons : the epitome of modern

Chez Panisse : "the way we eat now"

Epilogue.