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The restaurant at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art makes the best pigs in a blanket in the galaxy on the top floor of a $1 billion building.

Khushbu Shah

An Afro-Caribbean brasserie in New York, a permanent home for Levantine-inspired pizzas in DC, and more reasons to dine out this season.

Kate Kassin

A spate of new, excellent restaurants joins a growing list of our favorites and mainstays.

Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors

The idealism behind Will Guidara’s bestselling book created an impossible standard for restaurants.

Adam Reiner

The definitive list of the year's top US openings features a wine bar in NYC's Chinatown, a style-bending pizza spot in San Francisco, a thrilling izakaya in Kansas City, and more.
A Japanese bakery in Nashville, cult breakfast burritos in Brooklyn, Indigenous fry bread in Portland: These are the seven best new daytime spots in the US.

The Bon Appétit Staff

An enormous chuleta kan-kan in DC, a funky, earthy fungi pizza in SF, and 11 other dishes our scouters loved.

The Bon Appétit Staff

Peanut butter shoyu pie, sausage-stuffed olives, and more desserts, snacks, and drinks our restaurant scouters love.

The Bon Appétit Staff

As subscribers, you can redeem complimentary drinks and bites at three restaurants on our 2026 list in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

The Bon Appétit Staff

Editor in chief Jamila Robinson reflects on how the Best New Restaurants of 2026 gave us new ways to eat, gather, and see the world.

Jamila Robinson

In between serves and Love 15, here’s what to eat at NYC’s premier tennis tournament

Cathy Erway

From Thai-spiced brisket in Kansas City to a pernil-powered menu in Charleston, this cohort of chefs is rewriting the rules of traditional ’cue.

Charlie Kolodziej

Soccer (football?) fever has officially taken ahold of the nation. Here’s how to maximize your enjoyment between matches.

The Bon Appétit Staff

Winners will be announced in Chicago on June 15. Here’s what you need to know.

Kate Kassin

I’m a professional restaurant scout, and this take-out-only operation punches above its weight class.

Kate Kassin

These ubiquitous quick-service, genre-defying restaurants are capturing the attention of global travelers.

Sam Stone

Forget Taco Bell's version—gorditas are part of a centuries-long culinary history in Mexico.

Anais Martinez

A dynamic Chicago restaurant's next chapter, Northern Thai cooking in DC, and more reasons to dine out this season around the country.

Kate Kassin

Restaurateurs, farmers, and fisherman react to the complicated arrival of the famed Copenhagen restaurant

Emily Wilson

Fed up with hostile regulations and slim profit margins, chefs from New York, Chicago, and the like are trading big-city burnout for life in smaller towns around the country.

Andrea Strong

As federal agents occupy the streets, Kate and Gustavo Romero of Oro by Nixta buy groceries for their employees and neighbors in hiding.

Kate and Gustavo Romero, as told to Kate Kassin

Little Italies have defined my life. So I decided to take my two kids on an epic Italian American road trip along the East Coast to retrace my steps and rediscover our culinary roots.

Chris Morocco

After immigration enforcement in Minneapolis turned deadly, award-winning Indigenous chef Sean Sherman is mobilizing for Congressional action against ICE.

Serena Maria Daniels

Cafés and bars nationwide struggle with the high cost of ingredients.

Irene Adeline Milanez