By Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth

For a minute there, it looked like the traditional dominance of the local restaurant market by red-sauce Italian joints might be fading.

Old stalwarts were closing, and in their place, a new generation of Asian and upscale American restaurants have begun offering chicken banh mi in place of chicken parm, flatbread instead of pizza, and the thoroughly modern guilty pleasure of short-rib mac-and-cheese rather than stodgy old fettuccine alfredo.

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