Food & Wine: Best New Restaurants 2019

See: Our pieces featured on the cover of Food & Wine, as part of Chef Mei Lin’s Restaurant, Nightshade, named among the Best New Restaurants this year.

“Why it won: Chef Mei Lin pulls every trigger, twirls every dial to a defiant volume.

Right about the time the shrimp toast hits the table you realize you’d better pay attention. Up to this point it’s been all cheeky canned wine and pink plates and sexy California people telling big, loud stories from the comfort of emerald green banquettes. But then this thing shows up—a bowl of Cantonese curry, all ginger and lemongrass and coconut milk, and in the middle that oil-kissed wedge of pain de mie, fat with minced prawn and a fistful of fried curry leaves. And for one blessed second, it’s the only thing.”

Read the full article at: https://www.foodandwine.com/travel/restaurants/best-new-restaurants-2019