ROTY POTY

It's that time again, almost: the Metro/Audi Restaurant of the Year Awards 2012, in which me and a bunch of experts eat and rate every restaurant in town, so that you don't have to. You're welcome.

Meredith's: more than just great parking

The Grove restaurant sure knows how to pick chefs. Their current wunderkind is Ben Bayly, the guy who first introduced me to the amazingness that is Samsung induction cooking and who pops up in all sorts of glamorous places. I last spotted him preparing food for the Gucci enclosure at the races on the weekend. What was I doing there? Oh, I was interviewing promo girls at the Sensodyne Iso-active Gelato Garden for the racetrack big screen. So I guess both Ben and I had our share of glamour that day.