New year, new features

Happy new year, dear reader!

Last month we allowed our 900th post to glide by unmentioned but now as we see in 2010 we've got a couple of updates for you.

For starters, we've revised our where's the best? list yet again. We've added seven new recommendations for eating out:

• Bebida and Dench cooked us up some great breakfasts in the inner north,
• Bande A Part impressed us with its pizza,
• Roti Man warranted a trip across town, while Indya Bistro became our new favourite for local Indian,
• Tinh Tam Chay has introduced cheap Vietgetarian food to the west,
• and Monsieur Truffe does the loveliest chocolates and pastries. EVER.
  

We've had some new recipes enter our regular rotation too:

• The baked artichoke dip and just-as-good gyoza have made great snacks (and dinners!),
• OMG vegan omelettes and chorizo sausages are delicious at any time of day,
• Mapo tofu, asparagus stir-fry and spicy tempeh and broccolini pasta are hearty dinners that make fine leftover lunches,
• The Lebanese lemonade is a refreshing addition to any meal, while the chunky monkey shake is almost a meal in itself,
• And you couldn't get a better chocolatey finish to a meal than by making nutella icecream or the vegan Torta Sacher.

However, I am most excited about something that Michael's spent countless hours on to bring to you - a Google map marking all the restaurants we've reviewed worldwide! It's right over there in the side bar, so click on through to admire his work. You'll notice that while most restaurants have blue tags, the ones we particularly recommend have red tags. Click on a tag that interests you and you'll see the restaurant's address and links through to our review(s).

We hope you'll find this a more convenient way to determine which restaurants are in your neighbourhood, and which ones might be worth travelling further afield for. It also makes our spatial biases all the more clear, so if you have any recommendations that will fill in the gaps let us know!