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  1. Address
    134 N Franklin St, Juneau, AK 99801, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat noon

    Friday Noon–9 PM

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  2. Address
    2845 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 5 PM–Midnight

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    Resy
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  3. Address
    16 E Martin St, Raleigh, NC 27601, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 2 PM

    Saturday 2 PM–Midnight

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  4. Address
    51 Courtland St, Providence, RI 02909, United States
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    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Saturday 6 PM–Midnight

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    Tock
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  5. Address
    369 Bird Rock Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 6:30 AM

    Friday 6:30 AM–2 PM

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  6. Address
    1265 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226, United States
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Saturday 4 PM–11 PM

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    Resy
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  7. Address
    750 Lone Mountain Ranch Rd, Big Sky, MT, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 7 AM

    Friday 7 AM–10 PM

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    SevenRooms
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  8. Address
    1009 Christian St, Philadelphia, PA 19147, United States
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    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Saturday 8 AM–6 PM

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  9. Address
    1265 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Saturday Noon–1 AM

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    Resy
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  10. The mid-century room, with its bright orange window frames and striped banquettes, looks like someone raided a very good vintage furniture store and then had the taste to stop. Dan Kluger's West Village restaurant leans vegetable-forward without making a cause of it, and the wood-oven pizzas made with house-milled whole wheat flour keep tables ordering rounds they didn't plan on. A downtown crowd that takes its produce seriously fills the place most nights.


  11. Rank 10000. Make My Cake

    Southern Bakery


  12. Rank 10000. Make My Cake

    Southern


    Address
    409 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027, United States · Manhattan
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–7:30 PM

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  13. Address
    195 E Campbell Ave, Campbell, CA 95008, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–3 PM

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  14. Address
    330 Ingalls St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–3 PM

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  15. Address
    271 State St, Los Altos, CA 94022, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–3 PM

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  16. Address
    40 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos, CA 95030, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–3 PM

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  17. Address
    1265 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Saturday 4 PM–Midnight

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  18. Address
    600 N Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Saturday 8 AM–3 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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    Tock
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  19. Address
    6989 Blanco Rd, San Antonio, TX, United States
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Saturday 11:30 AM–10 PM

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  20. Address
    1818 N Loop 1604 W, Unit 101, San Antonio, TX, United States
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Saturday 4 PM–11 PM

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  21. Address
    1951 S Havana St, Aurora, CO 80014, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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  22. Address
    3257 Lowell Blvd, Denver, CO 80211, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat noon

    Friday Noon–9 PM

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  23. Address
    2080 S Havana St, Aurora, CO 80014, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  24. Rank 10036. TOKIO

    Japanese Noodle Shop

    The broths here spend serious time extracting collagen and fat from pork and chicken, and you can taste the commitment. Tokio is a ramen shop that also does sushi and small plates, but the noodle bowls are the main event. The chef trained in Japan specifically for this, and the menu runs from traditional to a cream-and-cheese Cremoso Diablo that sounds dubious until it doesn't. Westword has named it Denver's top ramen two years running.


    Address
    2907 Huron St, #103, Denver, CO 80202, United States
    Hours

    Closes soon, midnight, in 53 min

    Friday 5 PM–Midnight

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  25. A gas station kitchen in West Campus that somehow renders the question "what do you want to eat?" basically unanswerable, because the menu covers Mexican food, deli sandwiches, breakfast, hot dogs, and burgers without flinching. The burritos are massive, the tacos come street-style, and the sandwiches run Boar's Head meats on sourdough with house chipotle mayo. A reliable feed before, after, or instead of whatever else you had planned.




  26. A "birds of a feather read together" mural greets you at this queer-, woman-, and veteran-owned indie bookshop in Brentwood, where the vibe is cheerful and the selection is deliberate. Regular programming runs from local author readings to Banned Book Drag Queen Story Time, which tells you pretty much everything about where this shop stands. Families with kids who should be in rooms where books are celebrated, not side-eyed, tend to find their people here.




  27. A cookie cart parked at the Webberville Food Truck Park, where the rotating drops mean the selection changes often enough to justify returning before you've digested your lunch. The chocolate chip comes with sea salt, the Hot Honey Cornbread brings a little heat, and previous runs have included a Fruity Pebble Cheesecake Cookie that people still talk about with an air of grief. One cookie is technically shareable. Most people leave with several.




  28. Address
    5230 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60615, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Saturday 5 PM–Midnight

    Reserve
    OpenTable
    Online
    Website
  29. A nursery built around the fact that some plants eat things. Carnivero grows carnivorous and tropical rarities in custom greenhouses west of Austin, with a conservation mission focused on species that are quietly disappearing in the wild. Pitcher plants, flytraps, and stranger things fill the space, priced from beginner-friendly to serious-collector auction territory. Their Instagram is worth a scroll before you visit, so you know what you're getting yourself into.



  30. Address
    1405 E 7th St, Austin, TX 78702, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 7 AM

    Saturday 7 AM–9 PM

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  31. A former church that never quite stopped being one, Cherrywood Center now holds Sunday services and indie rock shows in the same reverberant sanctuary. The vibe is deeply DIY, the acoustics are a happy accident, and the crowd skews young enough to have no memory of what the building used to be. Austin's The Austin Chronicle named it Best Church-Turned-DIY Stage.



  32. Rank 10038. Coquito

    Caribbean

    The little neon sign out front is easy to miss, but the Kelly green interior and relic-inspired decor make up for it fast. Coquito is a Latin fusion cafe on East Seventh that runs a day-to-night double life: cold brew spiked with coquito and tortas by afternoon, DJs and a packed dance floor after dark. The name comes from Puerto Rico's traditional Christmas drink, which tells you something about the warmth of the place in general.






  33. Address
    13802 Embassy Row, Unit 2079, San Antonio, TX, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Saturday 11 AM–10 PM

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  34. A bookshop and cafe tucked into Hyde Park's old post office building, First Light keeps a well-curated shelf of fiction and a staff that actually reads the stock. The kids' section pulls in neighborhood families, while the sidewalk tables out front turn into a slow-afternoon situation: cortado, a novel, neighbors you didn't mean to talk to for forty minutes. Readings with local and touring authors fill the calendar regularly.


  35. Rank 10038. Fish Shop

    Seafood


    Address
    1401 E 6th St, Unit 201, Austin, TX 78702, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Saturday 4 PM–10 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
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  36. Every item in this Midtown thrift shop costs $3, no exceptions, no asterisks. The founder started Heartening after watching quality clothes disappear into dumpsters, and the mission has stayed blunt: get clothing back into the community as cheaply as possible. A free outdoor clothing stand extends the idea for anyone who needs it. You can leave with an armload for less than you'd spend on lunch, which is either depressing commentary on lunch prices or a very good Tuesday.



  37. Rows of abandoned trailers and sprawling walls serve as the canvas at this open-air graffiti park near the airport, where spray paint is both the medium and the curriculum. Weekly demos and hands-on classes make it less spectator sport than working studio, and a gift shop stocks stencils and cans for anyone ready to stop watching. The cafe handles the lattes while the walls handle everything else.



  38. Rank 10038. JW’s Kitchen

    Southern American




  39. Rank 10038. Komé

    Contemporary Sushi


  40. A matcha truck parked near UT that grew out of its co-founder's cancer recovery, which is about as meaningful an origin story as a café can have. Ceremonial-grade matcha is the baseline, with rotating flavors like pistachio and rose moving through quickly among students and regulars. In a city where food trucks are practically a civic institution, this one keeps the vibe calm and the drinks deeply, conspicuously green.





  41. Rank 10038. La Mezca

    Speakeasy

    The Veracruz All Natural team tucked a mezcal and tequila speakeasy into Mueller, and the agave nerd crowd found it immediately. La Mezca is a cocktail bar where staff can take you deep into single-village production or just shake you a very good mezcal margarita, depending on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go. Taquitos from the Veracruz kitchen handle the rest.



  42. A cafe and bar where the grounds do half the work: twenty tree species, a working garden, and a stream running through a South Austin property that makes it surprisingly easy to justify a third coffee. The team behind Veracruz All Natural and DEE DEE partnered up here, so the food skews Mexican and Thai alongside the cafe menu. Come for the laptop-friendly shade, stay because it turns into a bar once the afternoon earns it.





  43. Rank 10038. Lynny's

    Bakery

    Sixties decor and biscuits are the whole agenda at this kitschy East Austin cafe. The brick-and-mortar on East 12th is the sit-down sibling to a food truck, and it earns its slow-brunch crowd with diner coffee that won't punish you and biscuits that split into sweet and savory directions depending on your mood. A place designed for lingering, which, in a city that keeps speeding up, is a minor act of defiance.











  44. Rank 10038. Oken

    Japanese


  45. Rank 10038. Old Jerusalem

    Middle Eastern

    The wood-fired oven handles both meat skewers and cheesy pizza pies, which tells you this Northwest Hills Middle Eastern spot has range. Hummus, falafel, baba ghanouj, and shawarma anchor the menu, and the breakfast service alone sets it apart from the usual halal shortlist. The bright, patio-fronted room draws soccer watch parties and families in equal measure, which means it's already building the kind of regulars that take years to earn.





  46. Address
    400 Fairview Ave N, Ste 107, Seattle, WA 98109, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens Mon 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–4 PM

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