Awards season is hitting a crescendo now that The New York Times has dropped its 50 favorite restaurants across the country for 2023, following Bon Appétit and Food & Wine. Half of the spots on this annual list—now in its third year—opened following the Times’s 2022 edition, just another indication that it’s boom time for great restaurants right now.
Among the favorites this year are upscale yet homey Thai restaurant Prik Hom in San Francisco, Chicago’s rare Keralan comfort food destination Thattu, and Portland’s Mexican restaurant with a Pacific Northwest twist Lilia Comedor.
Get on these bookings—or trip reservations if you’re all about destination dining—because there’s a lot of ground to cover this year. Here’s the full list of winners.
Alaska
In Bocca Al Lupo (Juneau)
California
Noodle in a Haystack (San Francisco)
Perilla (Los Angeles)
Prik Hom (San Francisco)
Quarter Sheets (Los Angeles)
YESS Restaurant (Los Angeles)
Colorado
La Diabla Pozole y Mezcal (Denver)
Molotov Kitschen + Cocktails (Denver)
Connecticut
Ore Hill (Kent)
Florida
Maty’s (Miami)
Salt Shack on the Bay (Tampa)
Smoke and Dough (Miami)
Georgia
Bomb Biscuits (Atlanta)
Brochu’s Family Tradition (Savannah)
Hawaii
Tiffany’s (Wailuku)
Idaho
Amano (Caldwell)
Illinois
Daisies (Chicago)
Thattu (Chicago)
Iowa
The Webster (Iowa City)
Louisiana
Café Reconcile (New Orleans)
MaMou (New Orleans)
Maine
Tinder Hearth (Brooksville)
Maryland
Little Donna’s (Baltimore)
Massachusetts
Comfort Kitchen (Boston)
Michigan
Ladder 4 Wine Bar (Detroit)
Minnesota
Gai Noi (Minneapolis)
Montana
Campione (Livingston)
New Jersey
Fat Choy (Englewood)
New York
Café Camellia (New York City)
Stissing House (Pine Plains)
Superiority Burger (New York City)
Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi (New York City)
Torrisi (New York City)
North Carolina
Neng Jr.s (Asheville)
Oregon
Cafe Olli (Portland)
Lilia Comedor (Portland)
ōkta (McMinnville)
Pennsylvania
El Chingon (Philadelphia)
Kalaya (Philadelphia)
My Loup (Philadelphia)
South Carolina
Vern’s (Charleston)
Tennessee
Kisser (Nashville)
Texas
El Hidalguense (Houston)
Este (Austin)
Gatlin’s Fins & Feathers (Houston)
Wee’s Cozy Kitchen (Austin)
Virginia
Ellie Bird (Falls Church)
Washington
Bar Bacetto (Waitsburg)
Ltd Edition Sushi (Seattle)
Wisconsin
Birch (Milwaukee)
Tanay Warerkar is a content marketing manager at OpenTable.
