Awards

The North America’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025 List is Out

30 September 2025

On September 25, 2025 at Wynn Las Vegas, the inaugural North America’s 50 Best Restaurants list debuted with Atomix (New York) crowned No. 1. Junghyun “JP” and Ellia Park’s intimate, design-driven counter marries Korean flavours with meticulous technique and hospitality, setting the tone for a ranking that celebrates both heritage and innovation across the continent.

Canada made a powerful showing — Mon Lapin (Montreal) landed at No. 2, Restaurant Pearl Morissette (Lincoln, ON) at No. 3 and Tanière3 (Québec City) at No. 5 — while the broader lineup highlights a vibrant mix of tasting-menu temples, neighbourhood gems and destination dining from the U.S. and the Caribbean. Pictured above? Le Violon in Montreal, No. 29 on the list, where Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau were spotted having dinner this past July.

Atomix (Photo by Evan Sung)

The List

  1. Atomix — New York

  2. Mon Lapin — Montréal

  3. Restaurant Pearl Morissette — Lincoln

  4. Smyth — Chicago

  5. Tanière3 — Québec City

  6. Dakar NOLA — New Orleans

  7. Kalaya — Philadelphia

  8. SingleThread — Healdsburg

  9. Le Bernardin — New York

  10. Le Veau d’Or — New York

  11. Quetzal — Toronto

  12. Baan Lao — Richmond (Steveston)

  13. Benu — San Francisco

  14. Californios — San Francisco

  15. The Four Horsemen — New York

  16. Friday Saturday Sunday — Philadelphia

  17. Moon Rabbit — Washington, DC

  18. Via Carota — New York

  19. Chubby Fish — Charleston

  20. Locust — Nashville

  21. Saison — San Francisco

  22. Montréal Plaza — Montréal

  23. Kono — New York

  24. Aska — New York

  25. Lazy Bear — San Francisco

  26. Kato — Los Angeles

  27. Kann — Portland

  28. Published on Main — Vancouver

  29. Le Violon — Montréal

  30. Emeril’s — New Orleans

  31. Kasama — Chicago

  32. Royal Sushi & Izakaya — Philadelphia

  33. Saga — New York

  34. Albi — Washington, DC

  35. Jungsik — New York

  36. Corima — New York

  37. Dōgon — Washington, DC

  38. César — New York

  39. Café Carmellini — New York

  40. Penny — New York

  41. Buzo Osteria Italiana — Bridgetown

  42. Holbox — Los Angeles

  43. Alma — Montréal

  44. Mhel — Toronto

  45. Alma Fonda Fina — Denver

  46. Atelier Crenn — San Francisco

  47. Providence — Los Angeles

  48. Quince — San Francisco

  49. Stush in the Bush — St. Ann

  50. Beba — Montréal

Bon Appétit Just Released Its List of the Best New Restaurants in the US for 2025

15 September 2025

Every September, food media rolls out its picks for the year’s most exciting places to eat — and Bon Appétit has just dropped its 2025 Best New Restaurants list. While it’s not the only voice in the conversation, the roundup offers a useful snapshot of how dining in America is evolving. This year’s collection of 20 restaurants leans heavily into storytelling: chefs using their menus to explore identity, migration, and memory.

Instead of headline-grabbing gimmicks, the restaurants Bon Appétit highlights are rooted in personal history and a sense of place. In San Francisco, Fernay McPherson’s Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement feels like a homecoming, with soulful plates that link her family’s past to the present-day Fillmore district. In Seattle, Lenox channels chef Jhonny Reyes’s Puerto Rican roots into dishes that also celebrate the bounty of the Pacific Northwest. His crackling lechon with farm-fresh mustard greens bridges San Juan, New York, and Seattle in a single dish.

Lenox in Seattle

The list also celebrates bold expressions of cultural fusion. In Atlanta, Avize looks like a traditional Alpine restaurant until a plate of frog legs dusted with Atlanta’s own lemon-pepper seasoning lands at the table. The dish captures the dual identity of chef Jason Paolini’s project: European at first glance, Southern at its core. Meanwhile, in Washington, DC, Dōgon marks the triumphant return of star chef Kwame Onwuachi, who pays homage to the city’s Ethiopian and Trinidadian communities with Wagyu short ribs in smoky awaze sauce and fried lamb surrounded by curried chickpeas.

Not every entry is high-profile. In Pittsburgh, Fet-Fisk has transformed a Little Italy bar into a Nordic-leaning hotspot where diners sip marigold schnapps alongside pickled mackerel. In New York, Ha’s Snack Bar (pictured above) has become the city’s buzziest reservation, serving Vietnamese-French small plates from a chalkboard menu that changes nightly — a place so coveted that reservations vanish as soon as they’re posted.

What unites these 20 restaurants isn’t cuisine or geography, but intimacy. Bon Appétit’s editors describe them as meals you won’t experience anywhere else, each one shaped by the specific journey of the chef who created it. In a year where dining out has to be more than just dinner, this list proves that the most exciting restaurants in America are memoirs you can eat.

North America’s 50 Best Restaurants Honours Quebec’s Tanière3 for Art of Hospitality

16 August 2025

When it comes to unforgettable dining, atmosphere and service can be just as memorable as what’s on the plate. That’s why North America’s 50 Best Restaurants created the Art of Hospitality Award — and this year, the very first honour goes to Tanière3 in Quebec City.

Set in the vaulted cellars of two historic houses between the St. Lawrence River and Place Royale, Tanière3 is an immersion into Quebec’s culinary soul. Chef François-Emmanuel Nicol and co-owner Roxan Bourdelais have reimagined fine dining as a story of place: 10 to 15 seasonal courses crafted almost entirely from Quebec-sourced (often foraged) ingredients, each one revealed in real time to keep curiosity alive until the very last bite.

Guests can choose between the Chef’s Counter Cellar, where you watch the team at work and interact with Nicol directly, or the Dining Room Cellar, an equally atmospheric but more traditional setting. Whichever path you take, expect hospitality that feels deeply personal — a hallmark of the Tanière3 experience.

As William Drew, Director of Content for North America’s 50 Best Restaurants, put it: “Tanière3 delivers far more than just fine dining – it offers a personal experience rooted in the warmth, care, and pride of Quebec.”

The 2025 awards ceremony takes place September 25 in Las Vegas, when the full list of North America’s 50 Best Restaurants will be revealed. Until then, Quebec has every reason to celebrate: one of its most innovative dining rooms has just been recognized as setting the gold standard for hospitality.