Posters at Chowhound L.A. only voted 94 times, so consider the very small sample of Los Angeles foodies. But among those who cast ballots, Providence topped the Ultimate Los Angeles Restaurants list for 2006. Here are the top 10, with the first number representing total points. In parens are the total votes and the number of first place votes:

Providence 156 (36/18)
Spago 98 (26/10)
A.O.C. 91 (28/4)
Angelini Osteria 69 (29/5)
Lucques 59 (17/5)
Grace 45 (12/5)
Urasawa 41 (109/3)
Cut 37 (11/4)
Jar 35 (15/1)
Sona 32 (9/5)

Langer's is just off the list at #11, and Los Angeles Magazine's choice for best new restaurant, Hatfield's, is next at #12. Chowhound says, "Newcomers scored impressively. Mozza, the Batali-Silverton nouveau pizzeria that opened softly in December, managed to impress those few hounds patient and persistent enough to get a table to enter the poll in the top 20. Cut, Puck’s cutting-edge steakery, blasted onto the list at #8. And Hatfield’s, chef Quinn and dessert maven Karen’s eponymous fresh French eclectic, hit the chart at #12 with a bullet." See the whole roll there.

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