#restaurants

#restaurants

The James Beard Foundation Awards have long been considered one of the most prestigious awards in the food and hospitality industry, recognizing outstanding restaurants and chefs from across the country.

Bodega Nights is not a bodega or a wine bar, but a fun, sophisticated restaurant concept from the couple behind Babysips in a neighborhood that desperately needed a grown-up dinner option.

Minneapolis has a 200-year history of embracing newly arrived immigrants, leading to a remarkably diverse food scene that utilizes the region's agricultural bounty.

At restaurants in Italy, an average of 10 to 15 percent is appreciated. When it comes to drivers and tour guides, the average is 10 percent, but many leave more.

Past a sign for a family waterpark, a door opens onto an homage to fin-de-siècle Paris. Chandeliers are reflected in gilt-edged mirrors; there is a chorus line of lobsters and yards of fromage. Every so often, a waiter in a dinner suit flambées a crepe Suzette with a shock of flames, like a big top fire-eater. This is fine dining as buffet.

Delaware may be the second-smallest U.S. state (after Rhode Island), but it offers many perks, such as miles of family-friendly beaches and 17 stunning state parks. It's also home to a wide array of prosperous businesses - including highly acclaimed restaurants that fit any budget or craving. A visit to this Mid-Atlantic state allows you to sample a range of celebrated signature dishes and desserts, from steamed crabs to crab cakes, slippery dumplings, oysters, fried chicken, vinegar fries, and peach pie.

San Juan, Puerto Rico is one of the coolest places I've ever been. The city is vibrant and colorful, alive with a contagious, undying energy. When I was planning my trip, I was overwhelmed by the myriad food and drink options - how in the world would I make it to so many places? Of course I couldn't try everything on my list, but that gives me an excuse to go back sooner than later.

Oakland has come out on top in Conde Nast Traveler's latest Readers' Choice Awards ranking of the best US food cities, but San Francisco comes in at number five. Conde Nast Traveler has just released the 2025 winners of its annual Readers' Choice Awards for travel destinations, hotels, airlines, and more. And in the ranking of destination food cities in the US, Oakland has come in at number one this year. This may be in no small part to the great diversity of cuisines available in the city, and the sheer number of restaurants by our estimate, with around 1,500 restaurants, there is one restaurant for every 293 residents in Oakland.

While not everyone has the time, space, or equipment to smoke a massive brisket low and slow, BBQ ribs are much more accessible. It's entirely possible to whip up some amazing baby back ribs with honey mustard BBQ sauce with a little help from both your oven and grill, and an oven is all you need for sweet, spicy, smoky raspberry chipotle ribs that are sticky, downright glorious, and well worth the four hours they'll spend in the heat.

Beaujolais Nouveau is a simple, fruity red known for being the world's 'fastest' wine. It's a 'vin de primeur', best consumed as soon after harvesting as possible . It's illegal to sell 'Bojo' before 12.01am on Beaujolais Nouveau Day, so when that time finally does roll around, wine lovers rush to get their hands on a bottle and festivities erupt all over France and beyond.

BJ's Restaurants: The Huntingon Beach chain is offering two limited-time Pizookies. The Monkey Bread Pizookie is back. And there's a Dubai Chocolate Pizookie features a chocolate cookie and vanilla ice cream topped with pistachio sauce and sprinkled with toasted kataifi. There's also a Dubai Chocolate Espresso Martini. bjsrestaurants.com Corky's Kitchen & Bakery: Specials through the end of the year include pumpkin pancakes, pumpkin shakes and a Pumpkin Scookie, "part scone, part cookie." c orkyskitchenandbakery.com

After becoming the first female Iron Chef in 2005, she's been featured on various television shows, and later became the first woman to be inducted into the American Academy of Chefs Culinary Hall of Fame. Cora is more than a chef, she's also an author, health and fitness guru, philanthropist, and restaurateur. She's opened more than 15 restaurants across the United States, including Cat Cora's Kitchen, Olilio by Cat Cora, and Wicked Eats by Cat Cora.

Guinness has been promising that 'good things are coming' to Covent Garden for the best part of three years now. The brand first announced that it would be launching a brewery in London back in 2022 but has kept us on tenterhooks ever since. Finally, the wait is over. It's officially been revealed that Guinness at Old Brewer's Yard will open its gates on Thursday, December 11.

Wooooooooo, your tablehopper is set to hella turbo right now. On Monday, I was up in Geyserville at Francis Ford Coppola Winery to be a judge for the annual Perfect Your Pizzacook-off, which featured four fabulously creative pizzas and pairings, check my Instagram stories soon to see the winning pie (three words: pignoli chile crisp!). It's always a treat to have Razza's Dan Richer in town, and our Check Please! goddess Leslie Sbrocco as the emcee.