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Mike Sula and other Reader critics give their picks for the best new restaurants of 2010; along with the expected—Big Star, Girl & the Goat, the Purple Pig—there are some lower in profile, like West Town’s Arami (which now has full liquor service including a smart selection of sakes) and Branch 27. In the listings are other notable restaurants of 2010, among them Bucktown’s Chilapan, Ukie Village’s Ruxbin, and Andersonville’s Vincent. Elsewhere on the blog is Sula’s list of the 110 best things he ate and drank in a very good year.
Our new news feature Morsels gives the dirt on the closing of Andersonville’s Pasticceria Natalina next year, plus the word on Acre’s new dinner menu, which consolidates the original two menus reviewed just last week, and a Kickstarter campaign for local brewers Pipeworks, who’ll have a free tasting tonight at West Lakeview Liquors.
