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Best of 2011: Food
Here're the five biggest openings of the year -- feast on it!
Bar Toma: Decorated chef Tony Mantuano (of Spiaggia) is eschewing all pretense at his newest venture, Bar Toma, a 250-seater that's filled the former Bistro 110 space with white marble counter tops, raw concrete, and exposed copper pipes...more
Perennial Virant: Taking the title of its Green City Market-neighboring predecessor and tacking on the last name of the Michelin-starred, farm-to-table-fixated chef now manning the kitchen, PV's been made over into an "urban garden"...more
MörSo: Chef'd by the Gaztro-Wagon's Matt Maroni, who's spent the last year-plus championing Chi's burgeoning food truck movement, MörSo caters to the man who's too big of a truck himself to eat standing up...more
Roots Handmade Pizza: From the folks behind The Fifty/50, Roots is slinging the "Quad Cities-style" pies one of the owners grew up with in a massive 300+ capacity bar (made from 110yr-old wood from the original building) and patio...more
Butcher & The Burger: From a protein-mad former Duchamp chef, B&TB's a 50% meat-monger/50% 30-seat hamburger hawker...more
