At lunchtime, the sunlight-filled room is the ideal setting for a quick bowl of ramen. At dinner, the buzz from the giant open kitchen fills the space with big city energy. Leggi tutto.
Order smoked whitefish tartine, tomato-bread soup, and brownie sundae in the café; whatever looks good on the always-changing restaurant menu (wild-nettle sformato, shellfish-coconut stew, etc) Leggi tutto.
Go here for an ambitious meal that’s actually worth the price tag. Swedish chef-savant Fredrik Berselius serves his tasting menus to ten lucky tables a night in an 1860s-era warehouse in Brooklyn. Leggi tutto.
Straight ahead, when you enter, you have one of the most fun bars in a city of very fun bars: a cavernous hangout serving $6 boilermakers and $9-$13 fine cocktails like the Howdy Sailor. Leggi tutto.
Crab fried rice arrives covered in an egg crepe mix-in, the whole Peking duck is textbook perfect with crunchy skin and confit-like meat, and no order is complete without stir-fried snow pea tips. Leggi tutto.
Chef Ashley Faulkner $ her co-owner Adam Mir's hole-in-the-wall nails those craveable Southern masterpieces—fried shrimp po’boys, hushpuppies with honey butter, banana pudding—in a low-key bar setting Leggi tutto.
Order the bread with anchovy aioli, butter, and pickles, and whatever wine is fresh and by-the-glass. Follow that up with some fried and cured little fishes and a bracing orange wine Leggi tutto.
The sweet tooth can snag an ice cream sandwich at High Point Creamery, and the health nut can sip her charcoal lemonade at Green Seed, all while you hit your dozen Kumamoto oyster with some mignonette Leggi tutto.
Go here for chef Jordan Kahn’s strange yet satisfying meditation on the healthyish kinds of daytime snacks that everyone wants to eat when they’re in Los Angeles. Leggi tutto.
Go here for a taste of some of the most exciting cooking happening right now. Husband and wife David and Anna Posey bring their many talents—he is the former chef of Chicago’s iconic Blackbird. Leggi tutto.
Get the super uni shooters (molten uni butter encrusted in crispy panko); onion rings with a snowlike scattering of Parmesan; and pastas like “pici with chew” (plus bacon and jalapeño). Leggi tutto.
If you’re a first-timer, order the desayuno, a breakfast sandwich that involves scrambled egg, queso fresco, braised beef, and avocado amongst other fixings. Leggi tutto.
Go here for chef Nick Perkins’ down-to-earth but beautiful Mediterranean-leaning food. He does wonders with fish and local vegetables, making you question how food so simple could be so dang good. Leggi tutto.
One of the most beautiful dining rooms we came across all year: marble-topped oyster bar, whitewashed exposed brick walls, leather chairs, and so on. Expect to see at least one bachelorette party. Leggi tutto.
Yes, there’s a solid selection of nigiri and sashimi for those who want to play it safe, but we recommend heading for more unfamiliar territory—like uni paired with Alabama white sauce. Leggi tutto.
It’s got a modern Paris café look with its circular copper-topped tables, checker-patterned tile floor, marble bar, and smartly designed sconces. Leggi tutto.
Ask for the specials, or Kemuri-Osusume (“recommendations’). Some of the best things we ate came from this menu, including a rich crawfish chawanmushi (steamed egg custard) and “fries with eyes”. Leggi tutto.
Order the Turkish breakfast. You’ll get a dizzying array of accouterments: house-made pickles, soft-boiled eggs, marinated feta and seeded bread. Leggi tutto.
This is New York extravagance by way of mega-restaurateur Stephen Starr, with invigorated French cooking from the American-born Parisian sensation Daniel Rose. Leggi tutto.
Go for a burger and a classic cocktail. The green-checkered tablecloths, wooden bar, and boxing photos at this clubby spot practically beg you to get a martini. Leggi tutto.
The bagels and bialys are made in-house; the pastrami and brisket are brined, smoked, and roasted the old-fashioned way; even the sodas—in flavors like celery and beet—are built from house-made shrubs Leggi tutto.
Order the dishes that come with pork. That could mean everything from crispy pig tails or pig's knuckles smothered in spicy ginger sauce, or charred pork shoulder steak with a ton of herbs. Leggi tutto.
Order the soup. It could be made with nettles, roasted root vegetables, local fish, or some other pristine Pacific Northwest ingredient. The sandwiches at lunch are standouts. Leggi tutto.
The sports bar of your dreams, with better food and fewer drunk fans. Don’t dream of sports bars? You’ll probably find a nook in the sprawling space that will do just fine. Leggi tutto.
Get the Skins & Ins, for starters, basically fried baked potato chunks; they are the crispiest, crunchiest home fries we have ever tasted. Leggi tutto.
Go for the bright and citrusy shrimp ceviche, all of the tacos, the gorgeous fish with green mole, and the flan de queso. Or literally anything else from the tightly edited menu. Leggi tutto.
BRING YOUR FRIENDS and go all in on Mister Jiu’s banquet-style menu, whereby you can order seven dishes for the table ($69/person) with wine pairings ($45/person). Leggi tutto.
Tagliatelle with slow-cooked lamb neck ragù, risotto with Beth’s Farm Market asparagus, ravioli with herbs and ricotta…Jenkins doesn’t mess around. Leggi tutto.
Order the cheesy, deep-fried flautas; the stunning ceviche with plump, pristine shrimp; the crispiest pulpo (octopus) known to humankind; and the chicken mole. Leggi tutto.
Order the carrot crepe with littleneck clams (sounds weird, tastes divine), lamb porchetta, and flawless chocolate mousse. Leggi tutto.
Go here for a not-at-all-precious ode to vegetables in all their glory, most of which have been grown under the oversight of Josef Centeno (a Top 50 alum) at a nearby urban garden. Leggi tutto.
If you’ve never had tripe, this is the place to get it—it’s rich and silky and almost pasta-like. End the meal with spumoni and ask your server for some house grappa. When in… Philadelphia? Leggi tutto.
Get the signature Pineapple and Pearls and the Mexican Hot Chocolate buns, if you can. Wait, you can get pistachio milk in your coffee?! Leggi tutto.
Order the mysteriously perfect french fries; “Damn Good” Cuban sandwich (there is, on this occasion, truth in advertising); and the crisp-skinned, deep-amber-colored rotisserie chicken. Leggi tutto.
Whether you want an awesome breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner. Res Ipsa does just that, getting it right from house-made English muffins in the morning all the way to spaghetti with clams late at night. Leggi tutto.
The pit-cooked chicken is as good as any rotisserie bird you’ll find in France, and those big meaty spare ribs with a slathering of Rodney’s zingy sauce are worth a separate visit altogether. Leggi tutto.
Go here for smoke-tinged pies made with quality ingredients and Italian-leaning sides (like farro with arugula pesto and radishes) in a Mississippi region known for serious Southern cooking. Leggi tutto.
dark, austere, moody, beautiful, in a larger space than you might imagine…it’s a gently glowing beacon on a grim block of downtown. Leggi tutto.
thoughtful, quiet, and serious. SingleThread is not about blowing your mind with tricks and gimmicks; it’s about treating ingredients with integrity and serving them with finesse. Leggi tutto.
$135 eight-course tasting menu at Smyth, which showcases impeccable ingredients (like the insanely rich combination of Dungeness crab and foie gras) and the chefs’ wildly ambitious larder of ferments. Leggi tutto.
Order the coddled egg with za’atar toast for breakfast, out-of-this-planet porchetta sandwich at lunch, and an ice cream pie (from ice-cream-shop-within-a-shop Tartine Cookies & Cream) for the table. Leggi tutto.
The vibe is convivial and cool, with wood-paneled walls and garage-style doors that open to the street. This is the place to be right now in Kansas City. Leggi tutto.
Get the Green Monster pie (fresh mozz and green things in season, such as zucchini and kale); the Julia (a salad’s worth of snow peas, asparagus, and pea-shoot pesto on a white pie). Leggi tutto.
Go here for an out-of-this-world New Orleans lunch from chef-genius Mason Hereford and his crazily skilled cooks. Hereford and Co. channel their considerable talents into reinvented nostalgic classics Leggi tutto.
Order the dreamy, elaborately-topped hummus du jour, plus as many of the ever-changing vegetable dishes as you can fit on the table, and plenty of nutty, pillow-light flatbreads to mop it all up with. Leggi tutto.
The menu is exciting and unusual enough to intrigue a younger crowd; the space and service are sophisticated enough to please older diners too. Leggi tutto.
Get the octopus patatas bravas, gnocchi with green garlic, and any of the impressive family-style entrées, such as whole-roasted fish smeared with a spicy, deep-flavored Calabrian chile butter Leggi tutto.
The menu changes too often to offer reliable recs—recent highlights included a pork ragù with house-made pasta and stone crab with favas—but it’s just three dishes, so go ahead and order them all. Leggi tutto.
Go here to check out inventive, unfussy farm-to-table dishes from Georgia native and culinary wunderkind Brian So (previously of Decatur's Sobban) in an equally uncomplicated setting. Leggi tutto.
Everything here centers around the blazing hearth, where chef-owner Krista Kern Desjarlais fires up crackly Montreal-style bagels in the morning and rustic sandwiches and pizzas in the afternoon. Leggi tutto.
