A busy restaurant awards month is coming to a close with one of the most hotly anticipated lists nationwide: The New York Times’s 50 best restaurants selections. It follows closely on the heels of Bon Appétit’s best new restaurants and Food & Wine’s best new chefs lists—and much like those lists, more than half of the Times’s favorites from 2024 are new restaurants.
The Gray Lady’s editors and reporters traveled across nearly all 50 states and found that AAPI chefs are in the spotlight at several restaurants like at LA’s French-Japanese restaurant Camélia, San Francisco Cantonese hotspot Four Kings, and DC Vietnamese star Moon Rabbit from chef Kevin Tien. Then there are chefs doing unfamiliar takes on classic cuisines like at the New Orleans-inspired North of Bourbon in Louisville and at the Middle Eastern stunner Ammoora in Baltimore. And seafood is a star at many of these restaurants, like at Noche Woodfired Grill and Agave Bar in Tulsa and at Portland’s modern French spot L’Orange.
Thanks to this recent wave of best-of lists, there’s no better time to get cracking on those travel itineraries and restaurant reservations.
Read on for the full list of The New York Times’s 50 best restaurants for 2024.
Arizona
Mr. Baan’s Bar and Mookata (Phoenix)
California
Quince (San Francisco)
Four Kings (San Francisco)
Fikscue (Alameda)
Camélia (Los Angeles)
Azizam (Los Angeles)
Colorado
Yuan Wonton (Denver)
sắp sửa (Denver)
Meander Eatery (Pagosa Springs)
Connecticut
The Shipwright’s Daughter (Mystic)
Florida
Walrus Rodeo (Miami)
La Camaronera (Miami)
Georgia
Bread & Butterfly (Atlanta)
Nàdair (Atlanta)
Illinois
Asador Bastian (Chicago)
Kentucky
North of Bourbon (Louisville)
Louisiana
Acamaya (New Orleans)
Zeeland Street (Baton Rouge)
Maine
The Alna Store (Alna)
Maryland
Ammoora (Baltimore)
Massachusetts
Somaek (Boston)
Michigan
Noori Pocha (Clawson)
Minnesota
Oro by Nixta (Minneapolis)
Vinai (Minneapolis)
New Jersey
Sweet Amalia Market & Kitchen (Newfield)
New York
Blanca (Brooklyn)
Penny (Manhattan)
Shaw-naé’s House (Staten Island)
Bungalow (Manhattan)
North Carolina
Good Hot Fish (Asheville)
Ohio
The Aperture (Cincinnati)
Oklahoma
Noche Woodfired Grill and Agave Bar (Tulsa)
Oregon
L’Orange (Portland)
Yaowarat (Portland)
Pennsylvania
Fet-Fisk (Pittsburgh)
Little Walter’s (Philadelphia)
Passerine (Lancaster)
Rhode Island
Gift Horse (Providence)
South Carolina
Lost Isle (Johns Island)
City Limits Barbecue (Columbia)
Tennessee
Bad Idea (Nashville)
Edessa (Nashville)
Texas
Simply South (Irving)
Barbs B Q (Lockhart)
Viola and Agnes’ Neo Soul Cafe (Seabrook)
Virginia
Joon (Vienna)
Sumac (Sperryville)
Washington
Familyfriend (Seattle)
District of Columbia
Moon Rabbit by Kevin Tien (Washington)
Pascual (Washington)
Tanay Warerkar is a content marketing manager at OpenTable, where he oversees features content and stays on top of the hottest trends and developments in the restaurant industry. He brings years of experience as a food editor and reporter having worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, Eater, and the New York Daily News, to name a few.
