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  1. Address
    9390 Huebner Rd, San Antonio, TX, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  2. Address
    136 N Castell Ave, New Braunfels, TX, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–10:30 PM

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    OpenTable
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  3. Rank 17582. Olive & Rose

    Californian French Cocktail Bar


    Address
    255 Atlantic Ave, Long Beach, CA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–9 PM

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  4. Rank 17582. Otafuku Restaurant

    Soba Japanese





  5. Address
    14150 NE 20th St, Ste C, Bellevue, WA 98007, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–8:15 PM

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  6. Address
    2360 Gruene Lake Dr, New Braunfels, TX, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–3 PM, 4 PM–9 PM

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  7. Address
    6507 Circle S Rd, Austin, TX 78745, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–2 AM

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  8. Address
    4205 Menchaca Rd, Austin, TX 78704, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 4 PM

    Friday 7 AM–4 PM

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  9. Rank 17582. Underdog

    Korean Cocktail Bar


  10. Rank 17582. Wild Cumin

    Uyghur

    A live-coal grill, the kind you'd see on a street corner in Xinjiang, sits in the kitchen of this Uyghur restaurant tucked into a Kent strip mall. The lamb skewers come off it cumin-crusted and properly smoky, the sort of thing that makes a food writer ask to see the back of the house. The menu covers the northwest Chinese canon: hand-pulled noodles, flatbreads, big plates of spiced meat.


  11. Rank 17582. Xochi

    Mexican


    Address
    145 NW Gilman Blvd, Issaquah, WA 98027, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–4 PM

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  12. Address
    248 S 11th St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 3 PM

    Friday 9 AM–3 PM

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    Resy
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  13. The server who silently tops off your bowl with consommé from a water pitcher, without being asked, tells you everything about this birrieria. Braised goat has been the one thing on the menu here since forever, and the New York Times named the birria among the best dishes eaten anywhere in the U.S. in 2024. It's a South Chicago institution, cash and early mornings, crumbled chile de árbol on the side.


  14. Rank 17625. Bread Head

    Italian

    The focaccia here bakes thin with a crackling golden crust, and that alone makes Bread Head worth finding on Montana Ave. It's a sandwich shop, counter service, the kind you'd walk to on a Saturday. The mozzarella sandwich landed on the New York Times list of best dishes eaten across the country in 2024, which is a strange thing for a $14 half-sandwich to do, and yet here we are.


    Address
    1518 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–7 PM

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  15. Rank 17625. Casa Madai

    Japanese




  16. Address
    14982 W 69th Ave, Arvada, CO 80007, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 8:30 AM–10 PM

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  17. A prix-fixe dinner party where strangers share a table and, apparently, an extraordinary chocolate cake. The cake alone landed on the New York Times list of top dishes of 2024: dark cocoa crumb, pink-peppercorn buttercream, and the kind of thing that makes you rethink everything you assumed about the format. Communal seating and a tasting menu in the $60 to $75 range make this feel more like a good dinner at a friend's place than a restaurant.


    Address
    274 Hall St, Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5:30 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–10 PM

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    Resy
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  18. Address
    1627 S Tenth St, Philadelphia, PA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 3:30 PM

    Friday 7 AM–3:30 PM

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  19. The ham sandwich here landed on the New York Times list of the 26 best dishes eaten across the U.S. in 2024, which is a lot of glory for a poppy-seed roll packed with thick-cut ham, a slice of cheese, yellow mustard, and pickles. This old-school counter spot on Michigan Avenue has been doing exactly this for decades, and the new owners kept the recipe intact. Some things shouldn't be a project.



  20. Address
    3120 Uinta St, Ste 300, Denver, CO, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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  21. Address
    114 S 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–Midnight

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    Resy
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  22. Address
    112 S 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–Midnight

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    Resy
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  23. Address
    404 Occidental Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–6 PM

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  24. Address
    758 S Ninth St, Philadelphia, PA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 4 PM

    Friday 7:30 AM–4 PM

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  25. Rank 17625. Sofreh Cafe

    Persian

    Nasim Alikhani's minimalist Persian cafe on Flatbush is the kind of place you visit for one thing and leave thinking about it for weeks. That thing is the latifeh, a traditional confection the New York Times flagged as one of 2024's top New York dishes: two rounds of soft, rose-scented cream sandwiched between pastry and rolled in salted pistachios. Made fresh constantly so they never turn soggy, each one disappears faster than you planned.


    Address
    216 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 6 PM

    Friday 8 AM–6 PM

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  26. Rank 17625. Sugarpine Drive-In

    Seasonal Dessert

    A roadside soft-serve stand on the Historic Columbia River Highway, Sugarpine has been stopping Gorge-bound traffic for a long time, the building's past lives as a gas station and bait shop still faintly readable in its bones. The Cherries Jubilee Sundae landed on the New York Times list of the year's standout dishes: sour-cherry sauce, almond brittle, cherry almond baba rhum, and vanilla soft-serve doing a lot of quiet work together for nine dollars.







  27. Address
    1642 Pine St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 6 PM

    Friday 8 AM–6 PM

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  28. Rank 17625. uluh

    Chinese


    Address
    152 Second Ave, New York, NY, United States · Manhattan
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–10:30 PM

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  29. Rank 17656. Saucy Chick

    Mexican




  30. Rank 17659. Barbacoa Estilo Toluca

    Toluca-Style Mexican













  31. Address
    2756 Gage Ave, Huntington Park, CA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–10 PM

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  32. Rank 17661. Asadero Chikali

    Mexicali-Style Mexican


  33. Rank 17661. Asadero Chikali

    Mexicali-Style Mexican


    Address
    4233 W Century Blvd, Inglewood, CA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 8:30 AM

    Friday 8:30 AM–9 PM

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  34. Rank 17661. BALAM

    Creative Mexican


    Address
    11700 Long Beach Blvd, Lynwood, CA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–8 PM

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  35. Address
    300 W Fifth St, Santa Ana, CA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–Midnight

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  36. Rank 17661. Brothers Cousins Tacos

    Late-Night Mexican





  37. Address
    1470 Monterey Pass Rd, Monterey Park, CA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10:30 AM

    Friday 10:30 AM–5 PM

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  38. Address
    23 Olvera St, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–9 PM

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  39. Rank 17661. El Barrio Cantina

    Modern Mexican





  40. Address
    1528 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–8:30 PM

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  41. Rank 17661. El Ruso

    Mexican





  42. Rank 17661. Fonda Moderna

    Modern Mexican


  43. Rank 17661. Guisados

    Traditional Mexican


    Address
    541 S Spring St, Unit 101, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–1:30 AM

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  44. Rank 17661. HomeState

    Mexican


    Address
    5611 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 10 PM

    Friday 8 AM–10 PM

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