On the surface, this year’s awards may represent a happy return to normal (whatever that means anymore), but our esteem for this year’s honorees is anything but routine.
As you dig in to our annual honor roll of the valley's best chefs and restaurants this year, you'll come across the words revolution, revolutionize and revolutionare a lot.
So, yeah: In the manic run-up to this issue, one of the restaurants we were bandying about as a prospective Restaurant Awards winner — just as our collective excitement was needling into overdrive about its inspiring underdog story — closed.
