The end-of-the-year goal is to always provide a holiday gift to readers by smoothly wrapping up everything — publishing a succinct list of all of the local restaurants that launched that calendar year. That's easier said than done, though, because of early holiday deadlines and so many restaurateurs jockeying to open under the wire in an 11th-hour burst of activity. While it’s difficult to put a big bow on it, here we go.