Our 50 Favorite Restaurants of 2022
Sept. 19, 2022 / New York Times
We traveled widely and ate avidly as we built the annual list of our favorite restaurants in America. From Oklahoma City to Juncos, Puerto Rico, to Orcas Island off the coast of Washington State, our food reporters, editors and critics found revelatory Ethiopian barbecue, innovative Haitian cooking and possibly the most delicious fried pork sandwich in the United States.
While we love to see a dynamic new dining room open its doors, we’re equally impressed by kitchens that are doing their best work years in. So while some of our picks debuted just this summer, others have been around for decades. The one thing they do have in common: The food is amazing.
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A spare prix-fixe menu with few descriptors — “Mushroom, Grains, Mustard Greens” — can feel stiff. But in the hands of Colin Wyatt, a former executive sous-chef at Eleven Madison Park, that structure is liberating. The deliciousness is in the details: The butter paired with the pastry chef Georgia Macon’s Parker House rolls is whipped with dehydrated potato and tastes uncannily like a fresh-from-the-oven baked potato. The whey broth speckled with verdant chive oil that is served beneath a medallion of monkfish is a silky marvel, and the hazelnut crème anglaise that comes with the playful, large-format chocolate pudding is perfectly salty. In a town often declared a diner’s paradise, Twelve makes that all the more true. TANYA SICHYNSKY
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These are the 50 restaurants we love most in 2022.
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Abacá / San Francisco
Anajak Thai / Los Angeles
Andiario / West Chester, Pa.
Apteka / Pittsburgh
Audrey / Nashville
Bacanora / Phoenix
Bacoa Finca + Fogón / Juncos, P.R.
Bonnie’s / New York City
Brennan’s / New Orleans
Cafe Mutton / Hudson, N.Y.
Canje / Austin, Texas
Chicken’s Kitchen / Gretna, La.
Daru / Washington, D.C.
Dear Annie / Cambridge, Mass.
Dear Margaret / Chicago
Elvie’s / Jackson, Miss.
Evette’s / Chicago
Freya / Detroit
Gabriella’s Vietnam / Philadelphia
The Harvey House / Madison, Wis.
Here’s Looking at You / Los Angeles
Kabob Grill N’ Go / Phoenix
Kann / Portland, Ore.
Kato / Los Angeles
Kitty’s Cafe / Kansas City, Mo.
Leah & Louise / Charlotte, N.C.
Leeward / Portland, Maine
Little Mad / New York City
Little Saint / Healdsburg, Calif.
Locust / Nashville
Lucian Books and Wine / Atlanta
Lutèce / Washington, D.C.
Ma Der Lao Kitchen / Oklahoma City
Mamey / Coral Gables, Fla.
MÄS / Ashland, Ore.
Matia / Eastsound, Wash.
The Musket Room / New York City
Neptune Oyster / Boston
Off Alley / Seattle
Petite León / Minneapolis
San Ho Won / San Francisco
Semma / New York City
Sister / Dallas
Smoke’N Ash B.B.Q. / Arlington, Texas
Thaily’s / Chandler, Ariz.
Tito & Pep / Tucson, Ariz.
Twelve / Portland, Maine
Yeyo’s / Bentonville, Ark.
Zaab Zaab / New York City
Zitz Sum / Coral Gables, Fla.
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