Karen Akunowicz: The Best Bites of 2019

The Best Bites of 2019

From a hauntingly beautiful bowl of pasta to a spectacular salad worth donning a bib for, these outstanding dishes stayed on our Restaurant Editor-at-Large Jordana Rothman’s mind long after the last plates were cleared.

Cheese Pull of the Year (Focaccia, Fox & the Knife, Boston)

In the hands of Karen Akunowicz, focaccia becomes a blistered, crispy rosemary-crowned round, split right through its equator and packed with mellow, oozing Taleggio cheese.