The adventurous 10: The South Bay’s best new restaurants of 2015 are creative, wildly diverse, and boldly going to places where dining of this kind has rarely gone
Orlando’s Pizzeria and Birreria chef Orlando Mulé , Bettolino Kitchen chef Fabio Ugoletti and Terranea executive chef and A Basque Kitchen owner Bernard Ibarra. Photo by Pete Henze One of the marvelous things about the restaurant business is that there are so many ways of succeeding. You can execute your grandmother’s recipes brilliantly or create your own cuisine. All that matters is that the food makes people happy. This is a sharp contrast to occupations like accounting, brain surgery, or nuclear reactor maintenance, where entry to the profession is restricted by people with a rigid idea of how things should be done. As I looked at the candidates for the best restaurants of 2015 I was struck by the variety of ideas and approaches. Unlike some past years there was neither a fad or a neighborhood that dominated. There are now creative restaurants outside the downtowns in all of the Beach Cities, and they’re serving a variety of cuisines that are exciting and sometimes bewildering. If you look back to years when all the action was in Manhattan or Hermosa, or when the majority of openings were Italian, Japanese, or gastropub, the current diversity can be seen as a sign of maturity…
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