Stephanie Izard might be bragging to all her friends that she's some kind of a top chef, but everyone knows the real top chefs are the top-earning ones. Forbes, pathological ranker of wealth, has listed the top ten best-paid chefs. It used to be that Wolfgang Puck was the only celeb chef around (Spago is the tits), but with the rise of the Food Network and shows like Iron Chef, what you do with duck confit can get you just as noticed as the famous mouths you feed.

When Craft opened in Century City last year, the talk was all about the food. The LA outpost of the popular New York restaurant opened by Top Chef star Tom Colicchio promised to be a surefire success, particularly because the menu concept is California-friendly. Instead of subbing, say, greens for grits, you could customize your entrée with pricey side dishes. The calorie-conscious poured in from the surrounding office buildings, only too happy to dine in the shadow of the Death Star (aka CAA). Now, they're going for the cocktails, particularly on Thursday nights -- most of the 8,000 employees who work in the surrounding offices have three-day summer weekends.