Best of Rhode Island 2008 Editors' Picks

How is it that we could frequent Bristol Bakery as often as we do without having tasted their California loaf? It's a born breakfast bread, loaded with raisins, cranberries, walnuts and a surfeit of figs. Think of it as a healthy, high-fiber Newton. It's a stunning foundation for cheese, but deeply toasted and slathered in salted butter? It's a dream come true. Who said California had nothing more to offer than the sun and surf?