A partial list of Kelly English’s 2020 pivots: A new menu for local delivery, delivery to surrounding counties, nationwide delivery. A new patio in front of Restaurant Iris and The Second Line. A three-month popup at Restaurant Iris to serve Catalan food.

More: Zoom wine dinners. Zoom cooking classes. A Zoom Christmas party and a Zoom New Year’s dinner. Le Bon Appetit @home cooking series. Feeding front line workers in the early days of the pandemic and vaccination volunteers in the latter part.

Don’t blame him if he’s tired, and remember, he basically has new restaurants to open when life returns to “normal” for us.

English recorded a podcast with Sound Bites’ precursor, Destination Delicious, on March 16, 2020. It was emotional and we stopped a time or two for him to gain his composure. When he left the studio — the last podcast we recorded there — he had three dining rooms open at Iris, The Second Line and Fino’s.

That afternoon, he closed all of them and it’s been a wild ride every day since. Have a listen to what the year has been like. Any one of these changes listed above would’ve been a big deal, he said.

But that’s not even the whole list, and that’s just COVID: Year 1. We’re entering the second year, and no one knows what’s ahead.