All 17 varieties of its hand-rolled pierogi are delicious, but the farmers cheese and chive version gets our vote for its rootedness in tradition. Farmers Cheese and Chive PierogiĮight decades’ worth of Ukrainian family recipes populate the menu at this Eastern European haven. A favorite is cumin lamb, featuring strips of lamb with just enough grease and heat to satisfy and make you feel like you need to hit the gym. In a city filled with Sichuan cuisine, it’s nice to mix it up – and Chou’s complies with culinary offerings from northeastern China’s Dongbei region. This is one of those ceiling-shattering dishes that appears simple from afar, but ultimately makes you realize that everybody else has been doing it wrong.
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The meat is impossibly moist and juicy, full of smoke and char, and made even more delicious by accompaniments of frijoles, potatoes and home-made flour tortillas. 2 Pollo AsadoĮvery dish on chef/co-owner Rene Andrade’s menu is a love letter home to Sonora – particularly his bewitching pollo asado, simply salted and cooked over mesquite, pecan and almond on a Santa Maria grill. Little wonder we’re seeing similar dishes pop up around the Valley. A uniquely harmonious mélange of ingredients – satiny slices of hiramasa (yellowtail) graced with artfully toasted butter, raisins, tomatillo-and-fish-sauce vinaigrette and Sonoran Desert I’itoi onions – create an ethereal dish light in texture but rich in flavor, and absolutely irresistible. 1 Brown-Butter Hiramasa CrudoĬonceived and delivered at The Gladly, chef Donald Hawk’s cult favorite now resides at his new Melrose all-day diner, Valentine. When our nine writers sat down to formulate our 101 list, these five beloved Valley dishes were mentioned with uncanny regularity. But to spread the coverage as fairly and usefully as possible, we generally limited it to one dish per given restaurant. It’s simply based on what nine people with computer keyboards happen to love. Look, we know this list is hardly scientific. > AvailabilityĬan you walk up to a counter or sit down at a table and simply order it? That was a requirement… which is why elite, multi-course restaurants with mercurial menus like Binkley’s, ShinBay and Kai (all of them consensus Top 10 restaurants in the state) are not represented here.
You’ll find them all over the next 34 pages. But we also like artful transgression, and when it works, we tried to reward it. Our writers and editors love old-school cooking as much as the next food-crazed American. We asked ourselves: “Has the dish achieved celebrity status? Do we regularly meet random people who have tried and loved it?” If so, it probably made our list.
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