Top 10 in 2022 – All cuisines, all prices, all different
2022 was a year of extraordinary diversity in the dining scene by Richard Foss Sometimes I look at previous columns about the best restaurants of a particular year to analyze patterns. The year of Italian restaurants was followed by the march of sushi and ramen joints, and another year the sound of burgers flipping was loud in the land. No particular culinary trend dominated the local scene in 2022. But as I looked at that list, I noticed one unexpected trend. Among the almost forty restaurants that opened locally, two people could have a typical meal without spending over $75 at all but seven of them. The corresponding number for 2021, when almost the same number of eateries opened, was eighteen. This is a remarkable thing in a year in which food prices have been rising, and it’s hard to figure out why. Two years into the pandemic, were investors fast-tracking casual restaurants, or was this just random chance? It’s impossible to know, but it’s no accident that the restaurants on my list of the best openings of 2022 includes some modest places where you can get very good food. The ones that made the cut don’t just serve good food for an inexpensive restaurant, they serve good…
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