GQ Eats: Alan Richman's Five Best Dishes of the Year

by Alan Richman, GQ Magazine, January 2010

Poached Eggs over Market Vegetables
Huckleberry Café, Santa Monica

Basically exquisite greenmarket veggies. Sound commonplace? Not at all. No matter what every menu claims, sugar snap peas, pea tendrils, corn, cherry tomatoes, and arugula with the clout of these are rare. And the tender poached eggs are topped with pesto—the chocolate sauce of vegetarian cooking.