Best thing to happen to baked goods

Best bread artist

Best use of brie

Best budget veggie meal

Best stuffed cabbage

Best chain coffee without guilt

Best ticket to Chiang Mai

Best thing to happen to cheese

Best chef you never heard of

Best chef on the rise

Best juice with a difference

Best doughnut to go

Best drive-through liquor store

Best evidence that East Boston is still Italian

Best place to eat a nice meal alone and not feel like a total loser

Best place to eavesdrop

Best farm stand on Mass Ave

Best food-movement start-up

Best free chicken dinner

Best place to practice saying `You look good enough to eat' in French

Best hot-dog stand

Best place to get an ice-cream hangover

Best oysters (indoors)

Best Japanese soup with nothing disgusting floating in it

Best kosher deli

Best ticket to Lisbon

Best lobster revival

Best local burger joint

Best mac and cheese

Best Manhattan

Best New York deli that's not

Best oysters (outdoors)

Best way to feel good about eating pie

Best pizza-sized slice of pizza

Best potato pancakes as big as your head

Best culinary renaissance

Best riff on pizza

Best meat in a tube

Best foodie Web site

Best wine bar for the neophyte