Best Things We Ate in 2008

Inspired by our friend Howard, we decided to devote a post to the best things we ate all year. In no particular order, here they are:

*Caramel chocolate dome, Bar Room at the Modern
*Gujarati thali, Chennai Garden
*Spaghettini with lobster + 12-month cured culatello, Babbo
*Scallop ceviche + “shellfish duet,” River Café
*Pizza, Franny’s
*Scallop appetizer + grass-fed sirloin steak + chocolate-and-peanut butter cake, Cookshop
*Elotes (grilled ears of corn with cojita cheese and red chili powder), Vaquero Fruit Stand at the Red Hook Ballfields
*Crab cakes wrapped in zucchini blossoms and truffle butter + pounded tuna with fig compote, Le Bernadin
*Sheep's milk dumplings with pine nuts, tomatoes, and lamb sausage, Kefi
*Veal testa and lamb sausage charcuterie, Applewood
*Porkchop with rosemary and fennel, Little Owl
*Award-winning oatmeal-peanut butter-chocolate chip cookies

So, in sum, vegetables be damned --- we'll take seafood and meat!