Maybe Marshall Field's is getting renamed Macy's but at least one New Yorker - Jonathon Hayes - likes the Chicago way of doing things. "In 2005, eating in Chicago is almost painful: to choose one superb restaurant is to reject a dozen others."

Hayes asserts our Thai and Mexican food is better than New York's, which I can't disagree with. Restaurants mentioned include Charlie Trotter's, Tru, Alinea, Avec, Blackbird, and even Hot Doug's among others.