Besha Rodell Names Nine Fave Foods Of 2011

Over at Creative Loafing, dining editor and restaurant critic Besha Rodell has bucked the year-end top 10 trend by publishing her nine favorite dishes of 2011. Calling the year "a tad slow," the meals with the mostest include the porchetta sandwich at No. 246 (so good, she calls it "that damn sandwich"), chicken livers over risotto at One Eared Stag, cranberry soufflé with pink peppercorn ice cream at Bacchanalia ("like what the pinkest wicked fairy godmother would use to lure you to her castle of cotton candy"), and soft-cooked egg on rice cake at Miso Izakaya (from 2011 Eater Atlanta Award-Winning Chef of the Year Guy Wong). Though Rodell notes that "2011 wasn't the best year for dining in Atlanta," she looks forward to 2012: the year of supper clubs birthing restaurants like Cardamom Hill and The Lawrence, of new projects like Richard Blais' The Spence, and of the "zillion rumors" that promise for an exciting year ahead.

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