NYC Restaurant Voted America's Second Best

NEW YORK CITY — A renowned New York City restaurant where a meal is more of an experience for the senses than a feed has been crowned the second best in the country.

Eleven Madison Park, on Madison Avenue, won the plaudits from food website The Daily Meal in its list of the 101 Best Restaurants In America.

Only Chicago eatery Alinea was considered better.

Here's what the judges said about Eleven Madison Park:

"Eleven Madison Park opened in 1998 and, with Swiss-born chef Daniel Humm in the kitchen since 2006, it's become the very best restaurant in New York City. Humm and his team work their magic inside a soaring and elegant dining room overlooking Madison Square Park, where they serve an eight-to-10-course tasting menu with a modernist French twist. It changes daily, but Humm’s signature honey and lavender duck is always on offer. Reservations are extraordinarily difficult to get, but if you can snag one, this is easily one of the best restaurants in America for a special-occasion meal."

Other NYC restaurants that made the list are:

Le Coucou

Gabriel Kreuther

Frenchette

Atomix

Via Carota

Jean-Georges

Gramercy Tavern

Momofuku Ko

Per Se

Daniel

Le Bernardin

The full list of the 101 best restaurants is available on the Daily Meal.