The David Carr-Kurt Andersen Mutual Admiration Society survives competition for minor awards amongst its members. [WWD]

The Time Out Eat Out Awards were announced last night in a ceremony that we barely escaped. Though perhaps without the cachet of the James Beard Awards, the TONY Eat Outs do confer the privilege of displaying a little TONY advertisement congratulatory plate in the window of the winning establishment, a fact that might explain why there are so many winners in so many reverse-engineered categories. But prizes are prizes and winners are winners. Below are some of the awards we felt were most meaningful.