Opinionated About Dining surveys an extensive group of industry people—chefs, media, etc.—about the best meals of the year and the chef/restaurant that showed the most potential. Most are centered in New York, but there's a lot of others involved, from Aussie fan Anthony Bourdain to Michelle Bernstein's Locanda Verde love to David Chang, who picks French Laundry alum Corey Lee's imminent Benu as one to watch. [OED]
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