IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT, I HAD JUST RETURNED FROM NEW YORK CITY, A WEEK OF DINING AT LE CIRQUE 2000, LE BERNADIN, THE 21 CLUB AND THE RAINBOW ROOM HAD GROWN TIRESOME AND TEDIOUS. IT WAS TIME WELL SPENT OF COURSE, BUT A LOT OF MONEY HAD BEEN ALSO.
Last week we cited those hyper-theme palaces for raising restaurant ugliness to a new level in 1997. This week we'll ignore these architectural atrocities (if that's possible)-and focus on the good and the bad in restaurants over the past year.
