Best Restaurant Dishes Of 2013

AOL.com Editors

Updated December 6, 2013 at 2:46 p.m.

The year's most extraordinary dishes reflect the biggest restaurant trends of the moment: nose-to-tail-fin eating, live-fire grilling and the quest for elemental flavors.

Check out the slideshow above for the best restaurant dishes of 2013.

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