Best of Rhode Island 2008 Editors' Picks

You might not expect tostados coming out of a three-hundred-year-old colonial in Newport, but Perro Salado delivers them with great pride and authenticity. Fill them (as well as tacos and enchiladas) with stewed pork, chicken or beef, and you'll barely recognize the surroundings as New England. The only thing more compelling than these tapas-sized treats is the Tijuana fried chicken with jalapeno gravy.