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"In the Richmond, I found something to like around the clock at Pearl, the all-day cafe and bistro from the team behind Pizzetta 211. At breakfast the toasted farro bowl and the wood-fired bagel with smoked salmon stand out (although avocado toast and granola are "present and accounted for"). At brunch the star is a "magnificent assemblage" called Eggs in Purgatory — lamb sausage, spicy tomatoes and polenta — and at dinner I’d start with the soft egg before moving on to the soft and luscious handkerchief pasta in a sauce that exhibits just the right amount of restraint to create a genuinely gratifying sense of unity." - Andrew Dalton