OpenTable restaurants scored big this past awards season, and as we get into the new year, it’s time to start thinking about all the hotspots you’ll visit—or return to—in 2025. We’ve made that job a lot easier by rounding up all our restaurant awards winners in one place.
Whether that’s restaurants that scored coveted MICHELIN Stars, restaurateurs recognized for their work by the James Beard Foundation, or chefs recognized by Food & Wine, the group below represents the best of the best in the country and is another reminder of why it’s so exciting to eat out right now.
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New York Times’s 50 favorite restaurants
Esquire’s Best New Restaurants
Bon Appétit Best New Restaurants
Read on for the full list of restaurant awards winners, and make a booking on OpenTable.
MICHELIN Stars
MICHELIN Stars represent the pinnacle for most chefs and restaurants—a singular achievement that fine-dining restaurants around the world are striving toward. Let’s celebrate the hard-work of the OpenTable restaurants that nabbed coveted stars in America.
Atlanta
California
Addison (San Diego)
SingleThread (Healdsburg)
Commis (Oakland)
Mélisse (Los Angeles)
Vespertine (Los Angeles)
Providence (Hollywood)
Saison (San Francisco)
Angler SF (San Francisco)
Auberge du Soleil (Rutherford)
Auro (Calistoga)
Chez TJ (Mountain View)
Citrin (Los Angeles)
Gwen (Los Angeles)
Hana re (Costa Mesa)
Jeune et Jolie (Carlsbad)
Kali (Los Angeles)
Kato (Los Angeles)
Kenzo (Napa)
Meteora (Los Angeles)
Niku Steakhouse (San Francisco)
Nisei (San Francisco)
O’ by Claude Le Tohic (San Francisco)
Orsa & Winston (Los Angeles)
Osteria Mozza (Los Angeles)
Plumed Horse (Saratoga)
R|O-Rebel Omakase (Laguna Beach)
Selby’s (Atherton)
Shibumi (Los Angeles)
State Bird Provisions (San Francisco)
The Progress (San Francisco)
The VIllage Pub (Woodside)
Chicago
DC
New York
Colorado
Brutø (Denver)
The Wolf’s Tailor (Denver)
Alma Fonda Fina (Denver)
Florida
L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon (Miami)
Ariete (Miami)
Capa (Orlando)
Ebbe (Tampa)
ElCielo Miami (Miami)
EntreNos (Miami)
Le Jardinier Miami (Miami)
Lilac (Tampa)
Stubborn Seed (Miami Beach)
Tambourine Room by Tristan Brandt (Miami Beach)
Texas
Hestia (Austin)
Musaafer (Houston)
BCN Taste & Tradition (Houston)
Le Jardinier (Houston)
March (Houston)
James Beard Awards
Chicago hosted the 34th annual celebration of the country’s top chefs and restaurateurs that are otherwise known as the “Oscars of the food world.”
Outstanding Restaurateur: Erika Whitaker and Kelly Whitaker, Id Est Hospitality Group (The Wolf’s Tailor, BRUTØ, Basta, and others), Boulder, CO
Outstanding Bar: Jewel of the South, New Orleans, LA
Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA): Harley Peet, Bas Rouge, Easton, MD
New York Times’s 50 favorite restaurants
For the fourth-year running, New York Times reporters and editors ventured across the entire country to pick the restaurants that excite them the most right now.
Four Kings (San Francisco)
Camélia (Los Angeles)
Meander Eatery (Pagosa Springs)
Asador Bastian (Chicago)
Ammoora (Baltimore)
The Aperture (Cincinnati)
Noche Woodfired Grill and Agave Bar (Tulsa)
North of Bourbon (Louisville)
L’Orange (Portland)
Moon Rabbit by Kevin Tien (Washington)
Esquire’s Best New Restaurants
In its 42nd year, the Best New Restaurants series recognized 35 of the hottest openings around the country in 2024.
Four Kings (San Francisco) — Also Restaurant of the Year
Camélia (Los Angeles)
Alma Fonda Fina (Denver) — Chef Johnny Curiel was also named Rising Star of the Year
Little Sparrow (Atlanta)
Demo (New York)
Bastia (Philadelphia)
Late August (Houston)
Bon Appétit Best New Restaurants
BA editors and reporters traveled to restaurants that opened between March 2023 and 2024 to pick the 20 restaurants on this list.
Akahoshi Ramen (Chicago)
Alpenrausch (Portland)
Four Kings (San Francisco)
Sophon (Seattle)
Food & Wine Best New Chefs
Few other chef awards hold as much weight as this coveted annual celebration, which is now in its 36th year.
Lawrence “LT” Smith of Chilte (Phoenix)
Camari Mick and Mary Attea of Raf’s and The Musket Room (New York)
World’s 50 Best Restaurants
Each year, the announcement of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants leads to a surge in tourism to cities named on the list.
SingleThread (Healdsburg)
‘One to Watch’: Kato (Los Angeles)
Tanay Warerkar has spent more than a decade as a journalist, including several years as a food reporter and editor. He’s worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, Eater, and the New York Daily News, among others. He now oversees features content at OpenTable, where he also stays on top of the hottest trends and developments in the restaurant industry.
