Restaurants like Cote in NYC ushered in the next wave of Korean barbecue. San Ho Won in San Francisco and Jeju in Portland are carrying the trend forward.
The PBS television show "Great Chefs" is a fascinating time capsule of the high-end French dining that California cuisine supplanted in the 1980s and ’90s.
Because there wasn't the usual, annual round of year-end best-of lists last December, with the world still barely emerging from a pandemic and with Omicron rearing its ugly head it feels appropriate now to just do a list rounding up both 2021 and 2022, as far the local food scene goes.