A Couple More Round-Ups, Courtesy of the Times and Serious Eats
Two days before the 2010, the Times has delivered its comprehensive round-up of the best things its critics and reporters scarfed down over the course of 2009.![]()
Time for another bogus round-up, dude.
Sam Sifton shouts out his 11 best meals of the year, declaring his love for everything from the classic banh mi at Baoguette to the fusili with red wine-braised octopus and bone marrow at Marea. Mercifully absent from his round-up are allusions to the Ramones or what it's like to kiss someone in a rock club.
There's also a list of the best inexpensive restaurants of the year (M&T Restaurant, Saltie, Saraghina, Laut, here's looking at you), which leads to Serious Eats's latest round-up: the year in street food.
And what a year it was: turf wars, Twitter, hipster appropriation, Kogi madness, schnitzel.
And that was before Courtney Cox got involved.




























