Ah, the shareable, infinitely interesting small plate. It’s been a national trend forever, and after years of starts and stops, it’s slowly being embraced locally.
This year, we welcomed a couple of new small plate-centric restaurants, to the delight of diners who crave varied flavors and textures over the course of an evening. Solera features a lengthy hot and cold Spanish tapas menu. And Chow Yum Phat translated its food stand concept into a restaurant focusing on the Japanese tapas equivalent, izakaya. It offers lots of lively, inventive dishes that borrow from different Asian traditions.
For 225‘s December 2019 cover story, all about the biggest restaurant openings of the year, we took a look at some of the delicious small bites you’ll find at each restaurant. Read on for the full story.