The Best Places to Eat in Corte Madera, by the Record

The bright-orange bungalow in a Corte Madera strip of shops gives nothing away, but the Burmese restaurant inside draws neighborhood families who fill every table most nights. Tea leaf salad is the reason to start, fermented and crunchy and unlike anything else on a menu in Marin County. The mood is genuinely relaxed in the way that only places with warm servers and no pretension manage, and the kitchen skips fusion entirely.

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A chalkboard behind the counter maps exactly which farm each cut of meat came from, which tells you most of what you need to know about this counter-service BBQ shop tucked inside a Corte Madera mall. The ribs arrive with an obsidian crust and pink flesh underneath, the pulled pork is rich and salty, and a lineup of ten house condiments covers everything from Alabama white sauce to chow chow relish. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, suburban strip mall and all.

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