Manhattan Beach dominates best new 2020 South Bay Restaurants
In the fall, I considered not having a Best of the Year restaurant list because I assumed there wouldn’t be a sufficient number of candidates. But when I looked back on the year in December, it was obvious that, while 2020 was not a good year financially for restaurants, it was creatively and qualitatively the equal of any in recent memory. There were 32 openings of non-fast-food-chain restaurants in the Beach Cities, only 10 behind 2019, and only two of them shuttered before the end of the year. One of those would have made this list, had it survived. As often happens, the center of gravity in the dining scene moved – last year Hermosa had the most entries on my Best-Of list; this year it has none. Redondo had the most restaurant openings, but only two made the cut, and Manhattan Beach led the pack. I did have to push one restaurant into consideration for next year – Avenue Italy opened in October and closed after three weeks, but reopens this weekend. Before singling out any establishment, I want to acknowledge the incredible and sometimes heartbreaking effort that every restaurateur went through, particularly the ones that spent time and money on remodeling their interiors…
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