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Year End

The 19 Dishes You Should Have Eaten in 2019

Bloomberg’s food editor found a lot to love in 2019, whether it was hand-pulled noodles in Vegas, an epic burger in Brooklyn, or the grandest of chickens in Paris.

Did anyone eat anything besides fried chicken sandwiches and fake meat this year?

The dishes that dominated the headlines in 2019 were the ones that, invariably, led to a fast-food counter. But no matter what the gourmands in the Popeye’s sandwich corner think, there was a lot else going on in the culinary world: next-level Japanese hand rolls, a Sicilian slice from cooks who have been obsessed since childhood, oysters from “oysteropolis” in England.