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  1. Address
    2441 Goldfinch Ln, Garland, TX 75042, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 1 PM

    Friday 1 PM–8 PM

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  2. Rank 17799. Pinky Ring Pizza

    New York-inspired Pizzeria

    Pinky Ring Pizza is a casual pizzeria in Madison, set up in a former Sir Pizza, which means the building already knew what it was getting into. The pies run from pepperoni and a New York-style cheese to stranger company like lamb with pistachio pesto, or one topped with dill pickles. There's garlic focaccia, a deep beer list, and half-and-half ordering for the undecided. Nashville Scene gave it Best New Pizza in 2023.


  3. The rotating sausage of the week pulls from global flavor traditions, which is either a bold move or a perfectly normal Tuesday at this RiNo barbecue spot. Brisket and pulled pork anchor the menu, but jackfruit and mushrooms hold their own alongside smoked confit duck, so vegetarians aren't left staring at sides. The D&D-themed name prepares you for the crowd, in the best possible, genuinely unsurprising way.


    Address
    2826 Larimer St, Denver, CO 80205, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–Midnight

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  4. Pochitos is a north Denver tortilla factory that also sells tamales by the dozen, and that second fact tends to overshadow the first. It's a bulk-buy, family-run shop where you stock the fridge: tortillas, chips, salsas, refried beans, rice, and masa for the ambitious. The tamales come in red and green, and they sell masa too, in case you want to make your own, though most people try one and quietly put that plan away.



  5. Address
    4930 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75206, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  6. A narrow strip-mall storefront off Thomas Road that serves Michoacán family recipes to a weekend brunch crowd that knows exactly what it came for. This festive, casual Mexican restaurant keeps its menu rooted in the cooking of one region, which tends to produce that rare strip-mall meal you find yourself describing to people. When mole negro is on the specials board, the table next to you has probably already ordered it.


    Address
    519 W Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85013, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–9 PM

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  7. Rank 17799. Queen of Sheba

    Ethiopian

    Denver has a genuine Ethiopian dining scene, and this East Colfax restaurant quietly anchors it. The kitchen is largely a one-woman operation, and the food reflects it: injera that's properly tart and springy, stewed lentils and collards that take their time, and a shared platter loaded with enough variety to make the table a conversation. Come with people you like, because eating solo here would be missing the point.


    Address
    7225 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80220, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–3 PM

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  8. Address
    4101 Charlotte Ave, Nashville, TN 37209, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10:30 AM

    Friday 10:30 AM–8 PM

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    Resy
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  9. Address
    8400 Preston Rd, Unit 100, Plano, TX 75024, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–2 PM, 4 PM–9 PM

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  10. Address
    777 Ward Ave, Honolulu, HI 96814, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–8 PM

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  11. Address
    100 W Worthington Ave, Charlotte, NC, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 8:30 PM

    Friday 7 AM–8:30 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
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  12. Address
    901 SW Eighth St, Miami, FL, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 2 AM

    Friday 7 AM–2 AM

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  13. Rank 17799. Savarino’s Bakery

    Italian Bakery

    Savarino's is a small Italian bakery in Columbia, Tennessee, where the cannoli, sfogliatelle, and bomboloni come out of a family operation that started in a Walmart shopping center and now sells to the public only on Fridays and Saturdays. Plan accordingly, because showing up on a Tuesday gets you a locked door and a lesson in wholesale. Nashville Scene named it the Best Reason to Go to Columbia, which is a narrow field, but still.






  14. Address
    1001 Ross Ave, Unit 132, Dallas, TX 75202, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  15. Address
    968 Village Green Dr, Allen, TX 75013, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  16. Address
    9420 NW 41st St, Doral, FL 33178, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–Midnight

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  17. Address
    3020 Mockingbird Ln, Dallas, TX 75205, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 3 PM

    Friday 7 AM–3 PM, 6 PM–2 AM

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  18. Address
    3000 Florida Ave, Miami, FL 33133, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–Midnight

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  19. Address
    321 N Zang Blvd, Dallas, TX 75208, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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  20. Address
    1801 Commonwealth Ave, Charlotte, NC, United States
    Hours

    Open now, until 7 PM

    Friday 7:30 AM–7 PM

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  21. A local Arizona chain spreading across the Valley one location at a time, Someburros is a casual Mexican restaurant where the happy hour margarita is the main event. Original and strawberry margs come in at a price that makes rounding up to a third feel almost responsible. Mini chimichangas and cheese crisps help absorb the damage. Phoenix New Times gave it a Best Cheap Margaritas nod, which is perhaps the most honest award category in existence.




  22. Address
    22 NE Third Ave, Miami, FL, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9:45 PM

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  23. Address
    9723 W Broward Blvd, Plantation, FL 33324, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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  24. Rank 17799. Soy Cubano

    Cuban Sandwich Shop

    Soy Cubano is a small, counter-service sandwich spot in a McKennie Ave strip, built around one thing: the Cuban. It arrives cut into neat triangles, with a thin toasted roll, two kinds of pork, Swiss, pickle, and the yellow mustard doing its job. It's a casual, order-at-the-register, wear-whatever kind of lunch, and it's the kind of place where precision is the whole personality. Nashville Scene named it Best Cuban Sandwich in 2023.



  25. Spread is a small specialty market in Germantown, built for the moment you open the fridge and find only mustard and regret. The shelves hold tinned fish, odd spices, and condiments you'll swear you'll use, plus a short wine list and sourdough loaves baked in-house. The refrigerated case does the rest with charcuterie, cheeses, and marinated olives, and the staff will talk you into a whole dinner without anyone turning on a stove.


    Address
    1330 Fifth Ave N, Nashville, TN, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–8 PM

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  26. Address
    523 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO 80203, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
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  27. Address
    6490 Dobbin Rd, Unit F, Columbia, MD 21045, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–3 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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  28. Rank 17799. Sushinola Roll

    Sinaloan Sushi

    Sinaloan-style sushi, where the emphasis lands firmly on Sinaloa. This casual roll shop in west Phoenix leans into the coastal Mexican seafood traditions of the northwest, so expect aguachile poured over crab rolls and shrimp cocktail ladled on top in a gloriously soupy heap. The kitchen rotates experiments freely, meaning octopus, mango, or caramelized banana might all show up on a roll depending on the week.





  29. Address
    1405 Forge Ave, Baltimore, MD 21209, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–9 PM

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  30. Address
    112 N Eutaw St, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–6 PM

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  31. Address
    1717 N Bayshore Dr, Ste 131, Miami, FL 33132, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–10 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
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    WebsiteInstagram

  32. Address
    2700 Olive St, Dallas, TX 75201, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
    Online
    WebsiteInstagram




  33. Address
    10101 Sunset Strip, Sunrise, FL 33322, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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    Website

  34. Address
    3025 Main St, Dallas, TX 75226, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10:30 AM

    Friday 10:30 AM–10 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
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  35. A Thai cafe tucked into a strip mall on South Colorado, Thai Pot Cafe is the kind of neighborhood spot that fills up fast on weeknights. The drunken noodles are the draw, charred thick and loaded with eggplant, green beans, and tomatoes. Heat runs on a scale where ten counts as "Thai mild," so the numbers above that are not decorative. Westword named them Denver's best drunken noodles in 2023, which the regulars already knew.


    Address
    1350 S Colorado Blvd, #191, Denver, CO 80222, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–3 PM, 4 PM–8:30 PM

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    Website

  36. Address
    1436 Drexel Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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    SevenRooms
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  37. Rank 17799. The Greenwich

    Pizzeria


    Address
    3258 Larimer St, Denver, CO 80205, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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  38. Address
    120 NW 24th St, Miami, FL 33127, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–1 AM

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  39. Rank 17799. The Wash

    Pan-Asian

    The Wash is an all-outdoor food hall where several independent kitchens cook side by side, which makes it the cure for the family argument over Peruvian, pho, Cuban, or fried chicken. Everyone orders from a different window and nobody has to concede anything. It's built around takeout, so the move is a drink at the neighboring Bay 6 while you wait, then home to your own air conditioning. Nashville Scene named it Best Takeout Destination in 2023.



  40. Tiff's Treats is a warm-cookie bakery on 12th Ave N, the kind of place where the smell reaches you about a block before the sign does. Cookies are baked fresh and priced like a small treat, not a meal. At the end of the day, the leftovers go into discounted bags through the Too Good to Go app, which Nashville Scene once singled out as the city's best anti-food-waste option. Late shoppers, take note.



  41. Address
    17624 Collins Ave, Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 6 PM–11 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
    Online
    WebsiteInstagram


  42. Address
    128 S Main St, Mount Holly, NC, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  43. Rank 17799. Tumi 2.0

    Peruvian

    Peruvian cooking has always been a quiet argument that fusion was never a modern invention, and this Mesa restaurant makes that case across a menu that moves from Japanese-inflected ceviche to Chinese-Peruvian lomo saltado to chicken stew finished with Parmesan. The chef behind it has opened more Peruvian spots around Phoenix than anyone, and calls this one his last. The spit-roasted chicken, served with fried yuca, tends to do the convincing.



  44. Address
    1900 Eastland Ave, Unit 105, East Nashville, TN, United States · Nashville
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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  45. Address
    2817 Maple Ave, Dallas, TX 75201, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–11 PM

    Reserve
    SevenRooms
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    WebsiteInstagram

  46. Address
    2817 Maple Ave, Fl 2, Dallas, TX 75201, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

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    SevenRooms
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    WebsiteInstagram


  47. Urban Cowboy Public House is a casual East Nashville restaurant, the kind where you can walk in wearing whatever you slept in and no one blinks. The kitchen turns out a cheese plate of stracciatella, a word meaning "little rags" that sounds like an insult but describes cream and mozzarella scraps. It's the dish people post about, which is how you know the cheese is doing a lot of the marketing here.


    Address
    1603 Woodland St, Nashville, TN, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–11 PM

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  48. Outdoor grilling stations let you cook your own marinated meats al fresco, which is either a dream or a chore depending on your relationship with fire. This Indian grill in the Park Meadows mall takes familiar dishes, butter chicken, dal, coconut curry, and runs them through a French culinary lens. Everything arrives at one spice level, with the chef's hot sauce on the side to dial up the heat yourself.


  49. The heat levels at this Edgewater Thai spot are not a performance; the chiles do actual structural work, balancing galangal, lemongrass, kaffir lime, and ginger rather than just torching everything in their path. Curries arrive thick and deeply spiced, and the papaya salad dressing pulls no punches with lime and fish sauce. Order mild if you need to, but the kitchen built this menu for people who don't. Sloan's Lake is two minutes away, just in case.


    Address
    5228 W 25th Ave, Edgewater, CO 80214, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9:30 PM

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    Website

  50. Address
    1112 S Akard St, Dallas, TX, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–7 PM

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  51. Rank 17799. Wayne's Smoke Shack

    Texas Barbecue

    The dry-rubbed brisket here comes out with a coffee-dark bark and a pink smoke ring earned over post oak and hickory, the way Texas pitmasters do it. Wayne's is a casual BBQ shack in Superior that regulars mourned loudly when a 2021 wildfire took out most of the kitchen. It came back in 2023, candied pork belly and St. Louis ribs and all. Bring your own patience and a decent appetite; the sauces are housemade, but the brisket doesn't need them.


    Address
    406 Center Dr, Superior, CO, United States · Louisville
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–3 PM

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  52. Rank 17799. White Pie

    Neapolitan Pizzeria

    Wood-fired pizza shop in Denver's LoHi neighborhood, where the charred, garlicky pies lean into their New Haven roots without being precious about it. The menu runs white and red, and a frozen Negroni is always on offer, because of course it is. The team also runs a Mexican spot around the corner, and that same willingness to ignore what a dish is "supposed" to be carries over here. Casual, counter-order energy with pizzas that tend toward crisp, smoky, and just cheesy enough.


    Address
    1702 N Humboldt St, Denver, CO, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  53. Address
    5755 Grandscape Blvd, The Colony, TX 75056, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram


  54. Address
    1001 Woodland St, Nashville, TN, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–8 PM

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    WebsiteInstagram

  55. Address
    1331 Central Ave, Unit 101, Charlotte, NC, United States
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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    WebsiteInstagram

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