The best dish of/in the restaurant

[prudent260]

Jonathan Gold's 10 best dishes of 2016
But what may be the best dish in the restaurant comes from seaside Genoa, and isn't even on the menu — farinata.


The restaurant's best dish is farinata. The best dish of the restaurant is farinata.
There are the sentences in my mind.

But the sentence in the article used the best dish in the restaurant.

Are they (of/in) both idiomatic? Or is one simply wrong in this scenario?

Thank you

 

[SwissPete]

The best dish in the restaurant is perhaps more idiomatic, but of does not seem wrong to me.

 

[sound shift]

I prefer "in" to "to" here, but I think I like "The restaurant's best dish is farinata" better than either.

 

[You little ripper!]

I prefer ‘of’.

 

[Keith Bradford]

I can well imagine a dish of farinata, or a dish of herbs where love is, but a dish of a restaurant? A bit heavy for my digestion! Perhaps if it were gingerbread?

Almost always, we use in with superlatives: "The tallest mountain in Europe... the oldest man in Britain... the latest hit in the pop charts..."

 

[prudent260]

I can well imagine a dish of farinata, or a dish of herbs where love is, but a dish of a restaurant? A bit heavy for my digestion! Perhaps if it were gingerbread?

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Almost always, we use in with superlatives: "The tallest mountain in Europe... the oldest man in Britain... the latest hit in the pop charts..."

Thank you for the visual explanation.
Thank you, everyone, for helping.

 

[PaulQ]

But what may be the best dish in the restaurant ...

Try "But what may be the restaurant's best dish ... "

 

[prudent260]

Try "But what may be the restaurant's best dish ... "

It seems sound shift has the same opinion. I will go by this afterwards.
Thank you.

 

[PaulQ]

It seems sound shift has the same opinion.

Why didn't I see that?

 

[You little ripper!]

I can well imagine a dish of farinata, or a dish of herbs where love is, but a dish of a restaurant? A bit heavy for my digestion!

Have you tried Digestive or Swedish Bitters, Keith?

Interestingly Google has very few listings for both ‘of’ and ‘in’. “The restaurant’s best dish” is a lot more popular.