What are the best new things that you tasted this year?
You can find out my top 10 at Bay Area Bites.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Fatted Calf breakfast sausage meatballs at Sam's "Breakfast for Dinner Party", a very special sake with Fatemeh, housemade mozzarella at Delfina (with the two aforementioned bloggers and couple more of my favorite people for my birthday - I'm a lucky girl), lotus root chips at the Medicine Washoku dinner, fried clams at The Clam Box of Ipswich, roast chicken at Zuni Cafe (this was my first year I tried it!), calabacitas taco at La Super Rica Taqueria, panna cotta with citrus and ras al-hanout at Lucques.
Other top ten lists can be seen at Gastronomie and at World on a Plate.



