Not to be left out, Dinamo also made Style magazine’s State of the Plate with two of its dishes:

Close your eyes and you can almost pretend that you’re seaside when eating a bowl of fish soup loaded with mussels, rockfish and calamari, all tasting so fresh that you can practically smell the salty air. Pasta and tiny, diced carrots and onions round out the flavor profile, which comes across as a satisfyingly rustic and thoroughly pleasing start to a meal.

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It feels weird to be talking about a salad, but this salad does so many things right. Seriously. I don’t even like beets, particularly, and I’ve tried to recreate it at home at least three times. It’s all in the dressing — zippy, sweet and tangy.

In addition to L’Opossum, Style Magazine’s State of the Plate 2016 also showed some love to 821 Cafe.

For me, my favorite neighborhood unsung hero is 821 Café, where the vibe is lively, the food is solid and no matter the day, I can get breakfast, lunch or dinner with a smile, a reasonable price and a killer soundtrack. 821caferva.com.

In this week’s issue, Style Magazine has declared Oregon Hill restaurant L’Opossum their ‘2016 Restaurant of the Year’.

“Shannon’s sense of humor can’t undermine his profoundly serious approach to food. A graduate of the New England Culinary Institute, former Inn at Little Washington sous chef, the man who brought the grilled Caesar salad to Richmond in the early 2000s at his old restaurant, Dogwood Grille & Spirits, Shannon recently was named a semifinalist as 2016 Best Chef Mid-Atlantic by the James Beard Foundation.

It’s a good time to mention that exactly a decade ago, Style’s team of food writers and restaurant reviewers named Shannon’s Dogwood Grill & Spirits as our first Restaurant of the Year. They cited it as the city’s ideal dining experience, with warm service and charm, a restaurant that took risks that were balanced with a very-Richmond tone and restraint.

Shannon’s success is clearly no one-hit wonder. And the rest of the country has noticed. “L’Opossum has garnered the national spotlight as well, with recommendations from Condé Nast Traveler and Southern Living magazines,” reviewer Matthew Freeman notes. “Altogether the creativity and quality contribute to the growing prominence of the food scene in our city.”