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  1. Address
    5014 N Jupiter Rd, Garland, TX 75044, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 9 PM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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  2. Address
    294 Grove Ln E, Wayzata, MN 55391, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–Midnight

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    OpenTable
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  4. Address
    614 Broadway St, San Antonio, TX, United States
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    Open now, until 4 PM

    Friday 8 AM–4 PM

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  5. Rank 13178. Nostos

    Greek

    The tableside saganaki arrives in a burst of actual flames, which sets the tone for everything that follows. This is a proper Greek restaurant, the kind where white curtains billow, conversations run in several languages at once, and a server steers you toward an Assyrtiko without being asked. The wine list leans Greek and the dips arrive with warm pita still soft from the oven.


    Address
    8100 Boone Blvd, Vienna, VA 22182, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 2:30 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 5 PM–9:30 PM

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  6. Rank 13178. Outsider BBQ

    Texas Barbecue

    A Turkish American tech worker turned pitmaster drives an hour a day just to source the right bread for his chopped beef sandwiches, which tells you everything about the commitment level here. This is a Texas-style BBQ beer bar in Fremont where the brisket, salt-and-pepper only, runs through the smoker for upward of twelve hours and comes out glossy and dark-edged. The sweet pickles in the potato salad are made in-house purely to be an ingredient, not a garnish.


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    Address
    127 NW 27th St, Ste 105, Miami, FL 33127, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 3:30 PM

    Friday Noon–3:30 PM, 5 PM–10:30 PM

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    SevenRooms
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  8. Address
    221 Newell Ave, San Antonio, TX, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 8 AM–10 PM

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  9. Rank 13178. Quanto Basta

    Neapolitan Pizzeria



  10. Rank 13178. Seoul Prime

    Korean Barbecue

    A dry-aged rib-eye on a tabletop grill is a good start, but Seoul Prime is doing considerably more than that. This Korean barbecue steakhouse in Falls Church layers fine-dining ambition onto the tableside format, with a kimchi vinaigrette on burrata and a croissant pressed in a waffle iron for dessert. The beef tours give the meal a shape; the à la carte menu lets you freelance. Dressy enough to feel like a night out, smoky enough to remind you it's still barbecue.


    Address
    106 Founders Ave, Falls Church, VA 22046, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–11 PM

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  12. Address
    3244 Mission Rd, San Antonio, TX, United States
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    Open now, until 2 PM

    Friday 7 AM–2 PM

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    Address
    255 NW 25th St, Fl 1, Miami, FL 33127, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–Midnight

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    SevenRooms
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  14. The dining room of an old country inn in the Virginia foothills, where the kitchen takes a locavore menu seriously enough that nobody's ordering a chicken-fried steak. Housemade gnocchi, herb-crusted rack of lamb, and a mango mousse that arrives looking like a art installation suggest the chef has somewhere to be. The drive out to Paris, VA is part of it, and the setting does a lot of the work before the food even arrives.



  15. Address
    201 SE Main St, Minneapolis, MN 55414, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  16. Address
    411 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–9 PM

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    Tock
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  17. Address
    3945 Market St, Minneapolis, MN 55424, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–6 PM, 5 PM–9 PM

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  18. Rank 13178. TingTing’s

    Cantonese Café

    A Hong Kong-style all-day cafe where five-spice wings, barbecued unagi over scrambled eggs, Portuguese custard tarts, and clam chowder share a menu without anyone blinking. TingTing's, from the team behind EMei, is small, crowded, and BYO, which covers the essentials. The menu sprawls in the way those old Hong Kong cafes do, where Western comfort food and Cantonese staples occupy the same laminated page and somehow coexist peacefully.

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    Address
    125 N 11th St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  19. Address
    965 Garden Park Dr, Allen, TX 75013, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 9 PM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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  20. Address
    505 E Travis St, San Antonio, TX, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 4 PM

    Friday 7 AM–4 PM

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  21. Address
    888 S Greenville Ave, Richardson, TX 75081, United States
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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  22. Murals on the walls, A5 wagyu with foie gras on the plate: the contrast is kind of the point at this Arlington sushi spot. The menu runs toward the lavish end of the spectrum, with precision plating that makes you feel slightly guilty picking up your chopsticks. The ceviche with wasabi nori chips cuts through all that richness with real sharpness. Book ahead; the room fills fast and nobody's rushing out.



  23. Rank 13229. Kafana

    Serbian Eastern European


  24. Rank 13229. Le Gratin

    Lyonnaise Bouchon


    Address
    5 Beekman St, New York, NY 10038, United States · Manhattan
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–10 PM

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    Resy
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  25. Rank 13229. Nabila's

    Lebanese


    Address
    248 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–9:30 PM

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  26. Rank 13233. Baek Ban

    Korean

    The polished metal trays arrive loaded with banchan, and the arrangement shifts every time, which is half the point. Baek ban is the format, a Korean rice-set meal with a main and a rotating cast of small dishes, and at this Chantilly spot the lineup might include cubed radish kimchi, sesame-glossed glass noodles, or a perilla-leaf omelet. The smoky-sweet bulgogi landed on the Washingtonian's favorite dishes list, so that one is worth keeping an eye out for.


  27. Rank 13233. Banh Mi Oi

    Vietnamese


  28. Rank 13233. Bao Bei

    Taiwanese



  29. Address
    320 Beauregard, San Antonio, TX, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–Midnight

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  30. The whole branzino is flown in from Greece, cured, air-dried for days, then grilled until the skin shatters, which tells you everything about the kitchen's priorities at this polished Pike & Rose restaurant. It reads like a classic American steakhouse, and you could easily miss the Greek thread running through it, which is exactly what makes that fish such a pleasantly disorienting moment. The owners also run Cava, which is quite the range.


    Address
    921 Meeting St North Bethesda, MD, United States · Rockville
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 3 PM

    Friday 3 PM–10:30 PM

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  31. Rank 13233. Bun Papa

    American


  32. Rank 13233. Franciska

    Argentine


    Address
    111 Middle St, Portland, ME 04101, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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  33. Address
    550 N Harbor Dr, Milwaukee, WI 53202, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 2 PM

    Friday 11 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–9 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
    Online
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  34. Address
    425 E Mason St, Milwaukee, WI 53202, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–9 PM

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    OpenTable
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  35. A lobster shack on a Maine island with no indoor plumbing and, somehow, a blueberry bread pudding that the New York Times put on its short list of the year's best desserts in the country. Wild blueberries from up the coast, white chocolate chips tucked in without apology, and the obligatory vanilla custard sauce. The rest of the menu operates as expected: lobster rolls, saltwater air, paper plates. The dessert is the plot twist.


    Address
    315 Island Rd, South Thomaston, ME 04858, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 7 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–7 PM

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  36. Nine seats, seventeen courses, and Johnny Cash on the speakers: No Relation is a sushi omakase tucked inside the South End's tropical bar Shore Leave, which you pass through to get here. The team behind it takes the fish seriously, mapping each source on the wall, while keeping the room loose enough that smiling-cat sake cups feel completely right. A caviar supplement exists for those who want to go further.


    Address
    11 William E Mullins Way, Boston, MA 02118, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Friday 6 PM–8:30 PM

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    OpenTable
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  37. The sourdough under the roasted chicken isn't an afterthought; it sits in the pan and drinks up every drop of stock and butter until it becomes the point. Nancy Silverton's Georgetown Italian restaurant is a Stephen Starr co-production that landed as a full-blown scene, the kind where former presidents apparently just show up for dinner. The room runs loud and the pastas are homey, but the chicken alla diavola is the dish people are still talking about.


    Address
    3276 M St NW, Washington, DC 20007, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 3 PM

    Friday 3 PM–10 PM

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    Resy
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  38. Address
    22211 IH 10 W Access Rd, San Antonio, TX, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 2:30 PM

    Friday 11 AM–2:30 PM, 5 PM–11 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
    Online
    Website


  39. Address
    200 W Jones Ave, San Antonio, TX, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
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  40. Address
    2101 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 3 AM

    Friday 9 AM–3 AM

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  41. Address
    1018 Jay St, Ste 110, Charlotte, NC, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 10:30 AM–10 PM

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    OpenTable
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  42. Rank 13252. Saigon Babylon

    Modern Vietnamese

    Five floors above Central Square, this modern Vietnamese restaurant rewards the climb with vintage furniture the team refurbished themselves and a room that feels like someone's very stylish living room went rogue. The cooking runs to turmeric rice with squab and lemongrass carpaccio, and the cocktail list has a gin drink with salted lime and tingly pepper that earns its place on the bill.



  43. Address
    1598 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO 80218, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  44. Address
    699 N Broad St N, Philadelphia, PA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4:30 PM

    Friday 4:30 PM–10 PM

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  45. Rank 13252. Table

    Italian

    A server once warned a full room of strangers, "It's a marathon, not a sprint," and they were not wrong. This tiny North End prix-fixe seats guests at two long communal tables for six courses of Italian comfort, the kind that leans into abundance rather than elegance. Staff T-shirts reading "Come hungry, be friendly" set the tone before the focaccia even lands.


    Address
    445 Hanover St, Boston, MA 02113, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Friday 6 PM–11 PM, 7 PM–11 PM, 8:30 PM–11 PM

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    Resy
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  46. Address
    793 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–11 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
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  47. Rank 13265. Hiro Sushi

    Traditional Sushi


    Address
    9393 N 90th St, Scottsdale, AZ 85258, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

    Online
    Website

  48. Address
    127 N Tryon St, Unit 8, Charlotte, NC, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 3:30 PM

    Friday 10:30 AM–3:30 PM, 5 PM–11 PM

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  49. Rank 13267. Bellota

    Mexican




  50. Address
    1099 S Virginia St, Reno, NV 89502, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 2 PM

    Friday 2 PM–2 AM

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  51. Address
    699 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19123, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–9 PM

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    Resy
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  52. Rank 13267. El Quijote

    Spanish


    Address
    226 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011, United States · Manhattan
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–Midnight

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    Resy
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  53. Address
    62 Water St, Framingham, MA 01701, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 9 PM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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  54. Rank 13267. Kimika

    Japanese




  55. Address
    8000 E Texas St, Bossier City, LA 71111, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  56. Address
    298 S Old Woodward Ave, Birmingham, MI 48009, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–Midnight

    Reserve
    OpenTable
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    WebsiteInstagram



  57. Rank 13267. Old Sasoon Bakery

    Middle Eastern




  58. Address
    588 S Old Woodward Ave, Birmingham, MI 48009, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 11:30 AM–11 PM

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    Resy
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  59. Address
    247 E Michigan St, Orlando, FL 32806, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 6 PM

    Friday 11 AM–6 PM

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  60. Address
    9700 Amherst Ave, Margate City, NJ 08402, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10:30 PM

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  61. Address
    5520 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–12:30 PM

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  62. Address
    201 NW A St, Bentonville, AR 72712, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

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  63. Address
    1737 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–10 PM

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  64. Address
    13 E Reconciliation Way, Tulsa, OK, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–2 AM

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  65. Address
    42950 Gallatin Rd, Gallatin Gateway, MT, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5:30 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–9 PM

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  66. Address
    400 S Tryon St, Charlotte, NC, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 3 PM

    Friday 11 AM–3 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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