\u2013 I don\u2019t think it diminishes a fine-dining restaurant to stand alongside a taco truck. Nothing is being taken away. \u2013 Oh my God, I just got a little \u2014 I just welled up a little bit. \u2013 So, it is possible that the dumplings that you eat on the street corner are more perfect in what they are, and are delivered to you with more warmth, than you might find at a tasting counter where the food doesn\u2019t hit all its marks and the ambiance is a little chilly. So each restaurant, I think, needs to be taken on its own terms. That\u2019s the best that we can do as critics. You approach a restaurant on its own terms. What is it trying to achieve? Does it achieve it? Is it a good thing to achieve what they want? And so that\u2019s where these crazy rankings, that\u2019s where it comes from. It\u2019s thinking about each restaurant at its level, and what it\u2019s able to do. It just would be absurd to have a list of the best restaurants in the city be only restaurants that the vast majority of New Yorkers could never afford to go to. \u2013 Or would have no, you know, native interest in experiencing, too. \u2013 There\u2019s that too, so, I think that this is \u2014 this list gives \u2014 everyone can access \u2014 you can go to one of the best restaurants in the city. It might be a taco truck, but you could go there. It makes it accessible. And frankly, we have some of the best taco trucks. \u2013 Amen.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Wesley Morris and The Times\u2019s restaurant critic Ligaya Mishan discuss why a fine-dining establishment could be ranked alongside a taco truck on the \u201c100 Best Restaurants\u201d list.<\/p>\n
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