They’re some of the best in the West.

Five California restaurants were honored on a new, national list of the best restaurants in the United States — from a casual San Diego County taqueria to the casual offshoot of a pioneering East Bay farm-to-table eatery.

Published annually by the New York Times, the unranked list of fifty spots from coast to coast is comprised of the editors’ “favorite places in America right now,” and leans heavily towards what’s new and exciting — though classics weren’t automatically disqualified, readers were assured.

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