</head>While searching for the nation's Best New Restaurants, we stumbled upon a few standout dishes worthy of their own awards. In the weeks leading up to the release of the Hot 10 Best New Restaurants of 2015 (hold onto your hats until August 18), we'll be sharing a few of those highlights.
If you think it would be hard to name the best pasta of the year, then you obviously haven't had the Tortellini in Brodo at Alimento in Los Angeles.
Imagine if a Shanghai soup dumpling and an Italian wedding soup had an illegitimate child: It would look something like this pasta dish, where the “brodo” (broth) is inside the tortellini. The real birth parent is chef Zach Pollack, whose Silver Lake date-night spot, Alimento, is the kind of restaurant every neighborhood wishes for.
The Runners Up:
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Wood Fired Lasagna at Trentina, Cleveland
Emphasis on the charred, crispy bits.
Tagliolini a la Limon at Jon and Vinny’s, Los Angeles
Sunshine on a plate.
Squid Ink Conchiglie With Blue Crab and Sea Urchin Butter at Kindred, Davidson, NC In a year in which we ate a nearly comical amount of squid-ink pasta, no other lived up to chef Joe Kindred's miniature shells.
Rice Cake with Lamb Curry at Trove, Seattle Toothsome, dumpling-like Korean rice cakes could take gnocchi any day.
