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    4700 N 12th St, Unit 118, Phoenix, AZ 85014, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat noon

    Friday 4 PM–9 PM

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  31. Rank 15931. Contessa

    Italian


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    1 Newbury St, Boston, MA, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 7 AM

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

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    Resy
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  32. Rank 15931. Mr. H

    Modern Chinese

    A golden dragon centerpiece anchors the dining room at this upscale Chinese restaurant in the Seaport, where the lighting is dramatic enough to make you feel like the evening has stakes. The menu leans into creative dim sum, lacquered duck, and fresh seafood, with cocktails chosen to keep pace. It runs late, which earns it points in a neighborhood that often doesn't.


  33. Rank 15931. Orange Sky

    Seafood

    Floor-to-ceiling windows on the 15th floor of Talking Stick Resort frame 360-degree views of the Salt River valley, best caught as the McDowell Mountains go gold at dusk. This is a splurge-night-out seafood and steakhouse, the kind where you arrive early to claim a spot on the deck and watch hawks work the thermals. The lounge lets you keep the view without committing to the full tab.


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    9800 Talking Stick Way, Scottsdale, AZ, United States
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

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    3175 India St, San Diego, CA 92103, United States
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    Open now, until 2 AM

    Friday 5 PM–2 AM

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    OpenTable
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    8822 Wurzbach Rd, San Antonio, TX, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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    317 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Manhattan Beach, CA, United States
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    Closes soon, 9:30 PM, in 57 min

    Friday 4:30 PM–9:30 PM

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  37. Rank 15937. Boudro's

    Cajun & Creole


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    421 E Commerce St, San Antonio, TX, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–10:30 PM

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    Resy
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    1810 NW Military Hwy, Ste B, San Antonio, TX, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–9 PM

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    3455 S University Blvd, Englewood, CO 80113, United States
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    Open now, until 11:59 PM

    Friday 4 PM–11:59 PM

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    OpenTable
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  41. Rank 15941. 1928 Beacon Hill

    Seasonal American


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  47. The lobby fireplace and patio fire pit do a lot of work for a hotel off the interstate, making this Marriott Courtyard feel less like a crash pad and more like somewhere you'd actually sit for a drink. Rooms come with 55-inch smart TVs and illuminated bathroom mirrors, and the fitness center is a cut above the usual treadmill closet. The on-site restaurant keeps it simple: breakfast, dinner, beer, and wine.

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  60. A fire pit on the outdoor patio, the Bridger Mountains framing the distance, and a drink from the on-site restaurant in hand: there are worse ways to end a Montana evening. This mid-range hotel sits in the thick of Commerce Way's strip-mall sprawl, which sounds grim until you remember you came for the mountains, not the neighborhood. Rooms are comfortable and well-wired, and a few look out toward those peaks.

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    10323 Ferguson Rd, Dallas, TX 75228, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 7 AM

    Friday 7 AM–3:30 PM

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    334 W Jefferson St, Dallas, TX, United States
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    Closes soon, 11 PM, in 27 min

    Friday 10 AM–4 PM, 5 PM–11 PM

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  85. Wolfgang Puck's steakhouse inside the Four Seasons Downtown plays against the Manhattan steakhouse template, swapping dark wood and power-broker gravity for modern art and a lounge soundtrack that makes the room feel closer to a dinner party than a boardroom. The menu runs USDA prime, Wagyu, and grass-fed Angus alongside Maine lobster and sashimi, which is either a refreshing detour or a distraction, depending on your theology.



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    323 NE 13th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55413, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–10 PM

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    OpenTable
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  87. Dungeon masters run scheduled D&D nights here, but the tabletop games, rotating support groups, and writers' meetups make this cozy Tempe coffee shop feel more like a community center that happens to pull excellent espresso. The decor leans Oz, the music leans groovy, and the crowd leans toward people who are relieved to have found it. Phoenix New Times named it the best LGBTQ game night in the valley.


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    4415 S Rural Rd, Unit 10, Tempe, AZ 85282, United States
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    Closes soon, 10 PM, in 27 min

    Friday 7 AM–10 PM

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    1201 Shawan Rd, Hunt Valley, MD, United States · Cockeysville
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2:30 PM, 4 PM–11 PM

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    OpenTable
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    2100 N Coast Highway 101, Encinitas, CA, United States
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    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 7 AM–2 PM, 11 AM–Midnight

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    OpenTable
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  90. Rank 15992. 1 Nocello

    Italian

    A small, family-run Italian trattoria a short walk from Carnegie Hall, where regulars get greeted by name and the menu shifts daily around house-made pastas and fresh grilled fish. The room has the kind of unhurried, personal energy that midtown Manhattan mostly stopped producing a generation ago. Prices stay reasonable, the service is warm without being performative, and some of the clientele treat it as an annual pilgrimage.

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  91. Rank 15992. 112 Eatery

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  92. Rank 15992. 1870 Restaurant and Bar

    American Steakhouse

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    13310 Midlothian Turnpike, Midlothian, VA 23113, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

  93. Rank 15992. 20 Brix

    American

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    101 Main St, Milford, OH 45150, United States
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–5 PM

  94. Rank 15992. 230 Forest Avenue

    Californian

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  95. Rank 15992. 54 Mint

    Italian

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    16 Mint Plz, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States
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    Closes soon, 9:30 PM, in 57 min

    Friday 5 PM–9:30 PM

  96. Rank 15992. 555 East

    Steakhouse

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  97. A neighborhood bar and grill housed in a refurbished firehouse in St. Paul's West Seventh corridor, which gives the room more bones than most places trying to cultivate a "local watering hole" feeling. The menu runs American comfort, with a French onion steak sandwich doing a lot of the heavy lifting alongside a burger that locals seem to take personally. The bar handles cocktails, mocktails, and coffee drinks without making you feel like you have to pick a lane.

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  98. Jean-Georges Vongerichten's farm-to-table restaurant sits inside the ABC Carpet & Home store in the Flatiron, which is either charming or a bit much depending on your tolerance for browsing reclaimed furniture before dinner. The menu is strictly seasonal and organic, rotating through whole wheat pizzas, house-made pastas, and whatever the market decided that week. Brunch draws a crowd that takes their doughnuts very seriously.


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    35 E 18th St, New York, NY 10003, United States · Manhattan
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    Closed now, opens Sat 11 AM

    Friday Noon–3 PM, 3 PM–4:30 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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    Tock
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      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.

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