Best of 2011: Food Here're the five biggest openings of the year -- feast on it!

Southpaw BBQ: Proving lefties can do more than just be hilariously awkward while trying to use scissors is Southpaw BBQ, the Mish's new smokehouse-cum-brewery run by two guys and a girl (but weirdly, not a pizza place)...more

Park Tavern: The beautiful ladies behind PT encourage you to take a seat on their front patio overlooking Washington Square Park, do a cool double-point at your server, and tell them New Zealand citizens' favorite e-publication told you to order the double-super-secret Frisco Bros Cocktail...more

Leopold's: This antler-filled Austrian bierhaus (from brothers Albert and Klaus) is an ode to all things Oktoberfest, featuring eight mostly German beers on tap and 12 more bottled, all available by the pint/liter/boot and served by lederhosen-attired coeds...more

Bacon Bacon Truck: From a Cole Valley dude who originally moved to SF to manage his brother's rock band, the BBT is a 1986 Chevy lifted from a retired Hayward burger-maker, now serving up SF's first fully pork-ified menu...more

Boxing Room: Slinging eats from a 26yr-old Louisiana native who has minded the pots 'n pans at CoCo 500 and Moss Room, BR's a faux alligator-skinned, Douglas fir'd ode to the Pelican State...more