Last year’s top new restaurants in the South Bay

For over a decade, one of my first tasks of the year has been to make a list of the best new restaurants in the South Bay. It’s never an easy job. The overall quality of the dining experience in the Beach Cities has been improving, and it’s harder each year for newcomers to match the standards of their established competitors, much less excel in comparison.The size of my list has varied, depending on the number of establishments that opened and the virtues of the places under considerati