This week Bon Appétit magazine announced its Hot 10: America’s Best New Restaurants 2016. “They define the way we eat in 2016,” says Andrew Knowlton, Bon Appétit’s deputy editor. Knowlton and senior editor Julia Kramer crisscrossed the country, eating at more than 400 restaurants in search of these standouts.
1. Staplehouse, Atlanta
2. Bad Saint, Washington, DC
3. Lord Stanley, San Francisco
4. Morcilla, Pittsburgh
5. Baroo, Los Angeles
6. South Philly Barbacoa, Philadelphia
7. Oberlin, Providence, R.I.
8. Wildair, New York City
9. Buxton Hall, Asheville, N.C.
10. N7, New Orleans