Ten for ’20 [dining feature]
Gianluca Zago at his newly opened Saor on Pier Plaza. Zago is holding his Romana Crust Pizza and a Crostata (tart). Photo Many fine restaurants opened in the Beach Cities in 2019 – but you probably already noticed that. Visiting all of them is an adventure that takes you from modest cafes to elegant, curated spaces, with coffeehouses, grocery store lunch counters, mini-malls, and office parks along the way. As always, it’s a struggle to compile a list of the 10 best eateries that debuted in the past year. I have a bias toward locally-owned, independent operations, though when a chain place has character and brings something unique to the neighborhood, they’re eligible. This was one of the rare years when one of these made the cut, because any list of the best would be incomplete without it. As always I regretfully left off a few places, despite excellent experiences there. Decadence would have made the cut but they changed their menu and concept just before this article went to print, and El Barrio has some great ideas but their execution has been erratic. Addi’s Darbar was essentially the reopening of a previous restaurant, so it was not eligible. I hear from readers who wonder…
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