Drew Nieporent is an American restaurateur based in New York City. He owns the company Myriad Restaurant Group. Nieporent's Nobu and Nobu London restaurants earned two Michelin stars.
Le Bernardin is a three-Michelin star French seafood restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Eric Ripert is the executive chef, and he is co-owner along with Maguy Le Coze.
Peter Andrew Wells is an American journalist who was the restaurant critic for The New York Times from 2011 to 2024.
Kwame Onwuachi is a Nigerian-American chef based in New York City, New York. A published author and restaurateur, he also appeared as a contestant on Top Chef in 2015. He was recognized by Food & Wine magazine, Esquire magazine, and the James Beard Foundation as "Rising Star Chef of the year" in 2019.
Frenchette is a restaurant in Tribeca, Manhattan, New York City, which opened in April 2018. It won the James Beard Foundation Award as Best New Restaurant in 2019. It is owned by chefs Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson and is named for David Johansen's 1978 song "Frenchette". The menu includes a mix of modern and traditional French with dishes like escargots, tortilla espanola and spaghetti with shaved bottarga.
Semma is an Indian restaurant in New York City specializing in South Indian cuisine. The restaurant, operated by Roni Mazumdar and Chintan Pandya and their hospitality group Unapologetic Foods, replaced their first collaborative restaurant, Rahi. The restaurant received a Michelin Star in 2022 and has received positive reviews from restaurant critics.
Superiority Burger is a vegetarian burger restaurant located in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. The restaurant opened in its first location in 2015, and was closed from late 2021 until early 2023, at which point it opened in a second, larger location.
Atomix is a Korean fine dining restaurant in NoMad, New York City. The restaurant consists of two floors; the main "Chef's Counter" downstairs and the bar upstairs each with their own separate prix-fixe menus with both being reservation only. Along with the Atomix, the same group NA-EUN/나은 Hospitality also runs the sister restaurant Atoboy along with Naro and Seoul Salon. The restaurant is known for its particularly difficult reservations among other NYC restaurants.
Casa Mono is a restaurant in New York City. The restaurant serves Spanish cuisine and has received a Michelin star.
Comfort Kitchen is a restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in January 2023, the business was included in The New York Times's 2023 list of the 50 best restaurants in the United States. It was also a semifinalist in the Best New Restaurant category of the James Beard Foundation Awards in 2024.
Torrisi is an Italian restaurant located in the Puck Building in New York City in the neighborhood of Nolita opened by Major Food Group nearby their old first restaurant Torrisi Italian Specialties. Established in December 2022, the business was included in The New York Times's 2023 list of the 50 best restaurants in the United States. The restaurant was ranked 10th on the New York Times list of the best NYC restaurants in 2024, going up 23 places from the prior year and received an Michelin Star in 2023.
My Loup is a French restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Established in May 2023, the business was included in The New York Times's 2023 list of the 50 best restaurants in the United States. It was also named one of twelve best new restaurants in the nation by Eater, and was a semifinalist in the Best New Restaurant category of the James Beard Foundation Awards in 2024. My Loup was named of the twenty best new restaurants of 2024 by Bon Appétit.
Kalaya, also known as Kalaya Thai Kitchen, is a Southern Thai restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania owned by Chutatip "Nok" Suntaranon. Established in November 2022, the business was included in The New York Times's 2023 list of the 50 best restaurants in the United States, and won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic. The restaurant is named after Nok's mother, Kalaya, whose name in Thai translated to "beautiful woman".
Bar Bacetto is an Italian restaurant in Waitsburg, Washington. Established in October 2022, the business was included in The New York Times's 2023 list of the 50 best restaurants in the United States. In 2024, Bar Bacetto was a semifinalist in the Best New Restaurant category of the James Beard Foundation Awards.
Foxface Natural is a restaurant in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The restaurant was originally a sandwich shop, Foxface.
Foul Witch is a restaurant in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The restaurant serves Italian cuisine.
Tomo is a restaurant in White Center, Washington. Chef Brady Williams opened the restaurant in 2021.
Mắm is a Vietnamese restaurant on the Lower East Side in New York City specializing in food from Central Vietnam. Starting as a pop-up, the restaurant opened a brick and mortar shop in 2022. The restaurant is named after Mắm nêm or fermented shrimp paste sauce and their signature dish is Bún Đậu Mắm Tôm; a melange of food to be dipped in said sauce including house made tofu, pork belly, and sticky rice sausage. The restaurant was listed as 20th on the New York Times list of best restaurants in 2024 going up 6 places from 2023
Eyval, or in Persian ایول meaning "right on", is a restaurant in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City serving Persian food. They are closely related to Sofreh, another Persian restaurant in Park Slope, Brooklyn with the head chef Alireza Saboor being the old head chef at Eyval. The food primarily features modern takes on Iranian street food such as kashk bademjan or eggplant with strained yogurt and bastani, a Persian ice cream sandwich with saffron ice cream, vanilla wafer, pistachio, and rose. They were listed as a top 10 new restaurant back in 2022 by the New York Times and was ranked 66th in the top 100 restaurants by the New York Times in 2013 before rising up to 26th place on their top 100 list in 2014.
Zaab Zaab is a small chain of restaurants in New York City.
