Today, the 2008 New York City Zagat's Restaurant Guide hits the bookstores and so does the 2008 New York City Michelin Guide.

For the first time, the latest editions for 2008 of the two restaurant guide books were published on the same day.

The guides generally agree on the quality of a number of the restaurants. Per Se, Jean Georges and Le Bernardin remain the only restaurants in New York with Michelin's highest rating, three stars, and each was among the top seven restaurants in Zagat, with 28 of a possible 30 points.

[From NYTimes]

We're awfully proud since our neighborhood restaurant, Dressler, just was awarded a Michelin star! It is one of only three "outer borough" restaurants to receive this distinction -- Peter Luger, a block away in Williamsburg, and Saul in Brooklyn's Cobble Hill, Dressler are the other two.