The year in numbers

$39.43

The average cost of dinner in a Manhattanrestaurant—up 4.8 percent from 2005

$8 for four

Cost of pork pot stickers at Chinatown Brasserie

$1 for five

Cost of pork dumplings at Dumpling House

$62

Cost of BLT Burger’s Japanese kobe burger

350 percent

Average markup on a bottle of beer

$52

Cost of a meal of organic chicken, endive salad and carrots at Craft

$12

Cost of re-creating the same meal at home

1 year

How long a restaurant typically takes to turn a profit

222

Number of buzzed-about restaurants that opened in 2006

102

Number of noteworthy restaurants that closed in 2006

—Joshua M. Bernstein

The 2007 Eat Out Awards:

• Readers' choices
• Critics' picks
• The year in dish
• The year in numbers
• A moment of silence: Stick a fork in these dearly departed restaurants.
• Online-exclusive photo gallery: Marvel at the craft of our Eat Out award winners in this mouth-watering display of superlative food and drink.
• Tell us what we missed: We'll be the first to admit that the five-borough eating and drinking universe is far too vast for us to cover everything. So let us hear from you.
• Nontraditional Eat Out awards: Help us decide a few less mainstream categories about the good, the bad and the ugly in New York dining.