2025 Resy Best of the Hit List: All 160 Restaurants Ranked

Rasarumah on Beverly Boulevard is Los Angeles's most-decorated Malaysian restaurant, holding a 2025 Michelin Bib Gourmand and a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List. At the $$$ price point, it occupies a rare position in the city's Southeast Asian dining scene: serious enough for repeat regulars, accessible enough that they actually come back. Rated 4.5 on Google from early reviews.

At the edge of the Washington Channel, Fish Shop anchors the Wharf's dining identity around Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic sourcing, with a menu that bridges Scottish seafood sensibility and regional American ingredients. Named to Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, it earns that recognition through specificity: northern puffer fish served whole and crispy fried, Maryland crab crumpets, and a Virginia peanut tiramisu that rewards the curious diner.

Far-Out on South Haskell Avenue sits at the experimental edge of Dallas dining, where chef Misti Norris builds a constantly evolving menu around fermentation, whole-animal butchery, and Texas-sourced produce. Recognized by Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, the restaurant operates as a moving target — what you encounter on one visit may bear little resemblance to the next. That unpredictability is the point.

True Laurel on Alabama Street operates at the intersection of fine-dining technique and casual bar culture, drawing on chef David Barzelay's Lazy Bear background to produce cocktails and food with the kind of precision normally reserved for tasting-menu kitchens. Recognized on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025 and ranked in Opinionated About Dining's North America Casual list, it holds a 4.5 Google rating across nearly 800 reviews.

Claremont earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List, a signal that Dallas's dining establishment is paying close attention. Positioned on West Northwest Highway, it occupies the tier of Dallas restaurants where menu architecture and atmosphere carry the argument rather than celebrity buzz. For readers tracking where the city's dining energy is moving, Claremont is a venue worth understanding.

Las' Lap brings Afro-Caribbean cooking and lounge culture to Miami Beach, a city already fluent in Caribbean influence but rarely this deliberate about it. The format sits between a full dining room and a cocktail-forward lounge, which in Miami Beach's mid-price tier is a distinct position. It belongs in the same conversation as Paya and Silverlake Bistro for neighbourhood diners who want something other than the oceanfront spectacle circuit.

Tina ~ in the Gables earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, signaling its arrival as one of Coral Gables' most closely watched tables. Located at 4700 S Le Jeune Road, the restaurant operates in a neighborhood where international dining traditions run deep and competition across price tiers is serious. Reserve early and arrive with appetite.

A downtown Austin address that earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, Small Victory sits at 108 E 7th Street in the thick of the city's most competitive dining corridor. The recognition signals a restaurant operating above its immediate peer set, drawing the kind of repeat attention that tends to separate lasting additions to a dining scene from short-cycle openings.

On Locust Street in Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts corridor, Tequilas Casa Mexicana 1986 has anchored the city's Mexican dining conversation for decades. Named to Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, it operates at a tier where longevity and recognition overlap. The address — 1602 Locust St — places it squarely in one of the most competitive dining blocks in Center City.

I Egg You on Capitol Hill landed on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, placing it among the year's most-watched openings in Washington, D.C. The restaurant operates out of 517 8th Street SE, a stretch of Barracks Row that has become one of the city's more competitive dining corridors. Recognition at this level, this quickly, signals a room worth attention before the reservation window tightens further.

Terra Mae earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, signaling its place among Portland's most closely watched new dining destinations. Located on the second floor of a Northeast Alberta Street address, it operates in the city's most creatively active corridor. Booking ahead is advisable given the attention it has attracted since opening.

Sirene sits on Grand Avenue in Oakland's Grand Lake neighbourhood, placing it closer to the East Bay's dining core than San Francisco proper. Recognised on both Resy's 2025 Hit List and the San Francisco Chronicle's Best New Bay Area Restaurants for 2025, it has arrived quickly into critical conversation. For a Bay Area dining itinerary weighted toward discovery rather than destination marquee names, this is where the region's newer energy is concentrating.

Mister Jiu's holds a Michelin star and a 2022 James Beard Award for Best Chef: California, operating from a historic Chinatown banquet hall on Waverly Place. Chef Brandon Jew reframes Cantonese banquet tradition through seasonal Bay Area produce, positioning the restaurant in San Francisco's top tier of contemporary Chinese-American dining. Google reviewers rate it 4.3 across more than 1,100 responses.

On St. Ann Street in the French Quarter, Fives Bar earned both a 2025 Resy Hit List placement and an Esquire nod for America's best martinis — two recognitions that rarely land on the same address. The bar operates in a city where drinking is taken as seriously as eating, and positions itself in the more technically considered tier of that tradition.

Monster Ramen on West Fullerton has earned Resy's Best of the Hit List recognition for 2025, placing it among Chicago's most-tracked casual dining spots. Located in Logan Square at 3435 W Fullerton Ave, it draws consistent attention in a city where ramen has moved from niche import to a genre with real critical standing. Book ahead: demand in this corridor runs high.

Omakase dining arrived in the New Orleans metro with serious intent at SEIJI's OMAKASE by LITTLE TOKYO, a Resy Best of the Hit List honoree for 2025 located on N Causeway Blvd in Metairie, Louisiana. The format places the kitchen firmly in control of the progression, asking guests to trust sourcing and sequence over personal preference — a discipline rare at this latitude.

Wild Common in Charleston delivers Contemporary American tasting menus that highlight Lowcountry seafood and seasonal produce. Must-try plates include Steamboat Creek Oyster, the inventive Fig Newton dessert and the 4–7 course tasting menu with optional additional courses. Led by Executive Chef Orlando Pagán, this Michelin-starred kitchen pairs exacting technique with approachable flavors in an intimate, chef-forward setting. The experience balances thoughtful wine and cocktail pairings, interactive Chef’s Table seating, and warm, attentive service. Expect layered textures, coastal brine, and clean, focused sauces that let local ingredients sing — a refined Charleston tasting experience that rewards advance reservations and curiosity for tasting-menu dining.

Fratesi's Pizza operates out of a ground-floor address on East Flagler Street in downtown Miami, picking up a 2025 Resy Hit List nod in a city where pizza has historically played second fiddle to ceviche and steakhouse formats. The address puts it squarely inside Miami's downtown working core, a neighborhood better known for courthouse traffic than serious independent dining.

Sho Pizza Bar earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025 alongside a Resy Best of the Hit List nod, placing it among Nashville's most recognised value-tier restaurants. Located on McGavock Pike in East Nashville, it operates in a city that has grown serious about independent pizza at the mid-market level. The double recognition signals a kitchen that earns its standing on consistency and craft rather than on spectacle.

The French Room sits inside the Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, operating in a tier of American fine dining that prioritizes sourced ingredients and classical technique over trend-chasing. Recognized on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, the room sets a formal register that is increasingly rare in a city that has moved sharply toward casual formats over the past decade.

Kira earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, signaling its arrival as one of Houston's more closely watched tables. Located in the Greenway Plaza corridor at 2800 Kirby Drive, the restaurant sits within a competitive tier of Houston dining that rewards curiosity and repeat visits. For readers tracking where Houston's dining scene is heading, Kira is a useful data point.

Lei is a Chinese American wine bar on Doyers Street in Manhattan's Chinatown, recognized by Star Wine List's White Star and Resy's 2025 Hit List. The room fills fast — bottles stacked floor to ceiling, tables spilling into the alley — while the kitchen produces focused modern Chinese small plates alongside a deep list of low-intervention wines.

Cuerno New York occupies a prominent address inside the Time & Life Building on Avenue of the Americas, landing on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025. The restaurant has carved a distinct position among Midtown's newer openings, earning attention at a moment when the neighborhood is drawing serious dining back to its corporate core. A reservation here tracks with the momentum of that broader shift.

Butcher and Bee on Nashville's Main Street has earned consecutive Opinionated About Dining Cheap Eats rankings from 2023 through 2025, alongside a Resy Best of the Hit List nod, placing it firmly in the city's most recognised affordable dining tier. The kitchen takes a sandwich-forward format seriously enough to draw sustained critical attention across multiple review cycles. Dinner runs nightly; weekend brunch adds a second service window.

Ayu Bakehouse in New Orleans is a contemporary bakery and cafe where laminated French techniques meet global flavors. Must-try items include the Croissant, Pain au Chocolat and Chocolate Babka Knot, plus the seasonal "The Croissant City" Classic King Cake and kaya bun. The open-kitchen format on Frenchmen Street showcases housemade breads, buttery layers and killer coffee served in a casual outdoor setting. Recognized with a 2024 Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice award, Ayu Bakehouse delivers crisp, flaky pastries and savory biscuits that feel both comforting and inventive, ideal for early mornings, relaxed afternoons, and festive Mardi Gras orders.

A 2025 Resy Best of the Hit List honoree in Dallas's Preston Center, Frenchie sits inside the city's growing tier of French-influenced dining rooms that earn national notice without chasing maximalist spectacle. The address puts it inside one of Dallas's more polished commercial nodes, and the recognition signals a kitchen operating with enough consistency to catch Resy's editorial eye across a competitive national field.

Grit Bakery landed on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, a signal that Charleston's bakery scene is drawing the same level of critical attention as its better-known restaurant tables. Operating out of a suite at 601 Meeting Street, it represents the city's broader shift toward serious daytime dining as a destination in its own right, not an afterthought between dinner reservations.

A ten-seat chef's counter in Little Tokyo, Restaurant Ki earned a Michelin star in 2025 within its first full year of operation. Chef Ki Kim, trained at Atomix and Jungsik in New York, delivers a seafood-centric tasting menu that draws on both Korean tradition and French technique. With a 4.9 Google rating and a place on Resy's 2025 Hit List, this is one of the most closely watched fine-dining openings in Los Angeles.

A high-profile collaboration between Daniel Humm — the chef behind Eleven Madison Park — and Charleston's historic Charleston Place hotel, presented through Resy and recognized on the platform's 2025 Hit List. The event format brings New York fine-dining sensibility to the King Street corridor, placing it in a different register from Charleston's native culinary tradition.

Dimmi Dimmi Corner Italian sits at the intersection of Lincoln Park's neighborhood dining culture and Italian-American tradition, earning a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List for its tavern-style pizza, housemade pastas, and crudos. The corner location on Armitage Avenue draws a lively crowd looking for something between a casual weeknight spot and a destination dinner. It positions comfortably below Chicago's Michelin-starred tier while punching above the standard neighborhood Italian.

In the heart of Adams Morgan, Tail Up Goat distills the warmth of the Mediterranean through a Washington lens, balancing polish with a whisper of bohemian ease. Expect house-baked breads with impeccable texture, vegetables treated like jewels, and pristine seafood and meats woven into thoughtful, quietly daring compositions. The candlelit dining room glows with convivial energy while a deeply curated natural-leaning wine list and captivating nonalcoholic pairings invite exploration. Service is intuitive yet unhurried—an elegant stage for evenings that feel both intimate and celebratory, where every plate tells a story of craft, provenance, and joyful restraint.

Pastis Nashville occupies a corner of the Gulch with enough earned credentials to place it squarely on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List. The room draws on the French brasserie template, translated for a city that has absorbed several waves of serious restaurant investment over the past decade. At 512 Houston Street, it sits within walking distance of Nashville's most ambitious dining addresses.

Shiso sits on NW 28th Street in Miami's Wynwood-adjacent corridor, earning a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025. The restaurant draws from a tradition of precision-led cooking that has quietly reshaped the city's mid-to-upper dining tier, placing it among a cohort of chef-driven rooms where the ritual of the meal matters as much as what arrives on the plate.

On Hanover Street in the heart of the North End, TABLE earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List — a signal that Boston's most competitive dining corridor has a new address worth tracking. The restaurant occupies a neighbourhood already dense with Italian-American tradition, carving out its own place in a street that rarely has room for newcomers.

Owens & Hull at Grand Champion in Mableton earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, placing it among the year's most-watched openings in the Atlanta metro. Located in Smyrna's Riverview Road corridor, the restaurant operates within a dining scene that rewards sourcing transparency and regional identity over metropolitan polish. It is the kind of room that earns its reputation quietly, one reservation at a time.

Jules, on Fillmore Street in San Francisco's Lower Haight, earned spots on both Resy's 2025 Hit List and the San Francisco Chronicle's Best New Bay Area Restaurants list within its opening year. The kitchen anchors its menu in Bay Area ingredients and a dual heritage — Jewish and Italian — that shapes the pizza program in ways that set it apart from the city's other serious pie destinations.

Tutti Pizza on King Street earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, signaling its place in Charleston's tightening casual-dining conversation. Located at 700 King Street in the heart of one of the South's most competitive restaurant corridors, it brings a focused pizza program to a city better known for oyster bars and low-country cooking. For a neighborhood meal or a low-key celebration, it reads as a deliberate local choice rather than a default one.

A South Austin institution on South 1st Street, Lenoir pairs a rotating seasonal tasting menu built entirely around Texas ingredients with a wine list that consistently punches above its price point. Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025, alongside back-to-back Opinionated About Dining rankings, places it among the most closely watched tables in the city's contemporary dining scene.

Opened in November 2024, Smithereens brings a subterranean New England seafood sensibility to the East Village, with Chef Nick Tamburo's tight, seafood-forward menu championing under-appreciated species like bluefish, mackerel, and whiting. A Star Wine List White Star and 2025 Resy Hit List pick, it occupies a dimly lit, counter-and-table space at 414 E 9th St with a wine program built almost entirely around high-energy whites.

Maison Bar à Vins is Adams Morgan's French wine bar and small-plates restaurant, landing on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025. The format pairs a French-leaning wine list with refined bistro cooking in one of Washington, D.C.'s most neighbourhood-driven dining corridors. It occupies a quiet but increasingly competitive niche in a city that has grown serious about European wine culture.

Eldorado Cafe earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, signaling that Austin's mid-city dining corridor continues to produce venues with staying power beyond the downtown circuit. Located on West Anderson Lane in the 78757 zip code, the cafe operates in a neighborhood where casual format and serious cooking coexist without contradiction. Find it in our full Austin restaurants guide alongside the city's wider dining scene.

Auburn Angel sits on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn district, drawing attention as a 2025 Resy Hit List honoree in a neighbourhood historically underserved by serious dining. Its address alone carries cultural weight, placing it among a small group of Atlanta restaurants where location is as much a part of the proposition as what arrives at the table.

Elia Chicago earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, signaling its arrival as one of Wicker Park's more closely watched tables. The restaurant operates on West Division Street, a strip that has steadily drawn serious dining projects away from the downtown core. Its Greek-rooted cooking connects the neighborhood to a Mediterranean tradition that Chicago's dining scene has rarely addressed at this level.

Fond earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List, a signal that Dallas's dining community has taken notice of this downtown address at 1601 Elm Street. The restaurant operates at the intersection of considered cooking and a space that rewards close attention, placing it among a cohort of Dallas restaurants that prioritise craft over spectacle. Book ahead; this one fills quickly.

Le Virtù in Philadelphia presents focused Abruzzese Italian cuisine led by Chef Andrew Wood. Must-try experiences include the La Panarda 40-course tasting, chocolate olive oil cake with pistachio cannoli cream, and lu parrozz almond-citrus cake. The restaurant emphasizes seasonal, terroir-driven ingredients—Pennsylvania fish, game and simple pastas—served in an intimate, conversation-forward setting. Known for its annual La Panarda event and steady critical acclaim, Le Virtù delivers a long, immersive meal that tastes of Abruzzo and the South Philadelphia neighborhood it honors.

Daniel's Miami in Coral Gables delivers a contemporary steakhouse experience rooted in European-style hospitality. Must-try dishes include the Wagyu Prime Rib, whole Branzino and Lobster Fra Diavolo, each crafted with thoughtfully sourced ingredients. The restaurant pairs premium Australian Wagyu and North Florida beef with coastal seafood and a celebrated wine program led by Daniel Bishop. Ranked ninth on the 2026 World's Best 101 Steak Restaurants and the highest-rated steakhouse in Florida, Daniel's Miami balances theatrical tableside Prime Rib service with warm, precise service and a massive glass wine cellar that frames every meal with visual drama and deep vintages.

Xiao Bao East Nashville sits on Meridian Street in a Nashville neighbourhood that has been quietly absorbing some of the city's most interesting cooking. The recipient of a Resy Best of the Hit List recognition in 2025, it occupies a space where collaborative kitchen and floor dynamics translate into a dining experience that reads as considered rather than casual. East Nashville's appetite for low-pretension, high-intention food finds a capable expression here.

NADU Regional Indian in Chicago presents contemporary Regional Indian cuisine, guided by Michelin Star Chef Sujan Sarkar. Must-try plates include Hyderabadi Biryani, a fiery Kerala curry, and the Tutti Frutti Cassata dessert. The restaurant emphasizes sharing plates and a $55 four-course tasting menu that traverses coastal south and bold northern flavors. Recognized by the MICHELIN Guide for "Good cooking" in 2025, NADU pairs authentic techniques with locally sourced ingredients and a warm, inviting atmosphere. Expect bright spices, layered aromatics, and textural contrasts that make each course vivid and memorable.

From the team behind Miller Union, Madeira Park brings a Mediterranean-leaning small plates format and a serious wine program to Poncey-Highland. The 2025 Michelin Plate recipient and Resy Hit List honoree operates at a neighbourhood wine bar register — more convivial than ceremonial — while the kitchen maintains the culinary discipline you'd expect from that lineage.

On Sullivan's Island, a barrier island outside Charleston with a distinct unhurried character, Sullivans Fish Camp earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List — a signal that this is not simply a beach-town seafood stopover. Located on Middle Street, the address puts it inside a neighbourhood where casual format and serious local sourcing have long coexisted. For visitors building a full island itinerary, it anchors the dining end of the trip.

Le Jardinier Houston holds a Michelin star for the second consecutive year (2024 and 2025) and landed on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025. Located at 5500 Main St in the Museum District, it serves contemporary French cuisine at the $$$$ price point, with lunch and dinner service Wednesday through Sunday and dinner only on Monday and Tuesday. A 4.6 Google rating across more than 500 reviews points to consistent execution at a high level.

A Michelin Plate-recognised Californian farm-to-table restaurant in Westchester, Tomat operates an all-day format built around seasonal ingredients and a distinctive British-Persian culinary crossover. With a rooftop terrace, urban garden, and event space on West 87th Street, it earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List — making it one of the more quietly consequential openings near LAX in recent memory.

A Michelin Bib Gourmand counter on Mt. Pleasant Street, La Tejana built its reputation on breakfast tacos rooted in Texas tradition: flour tortillas kept warm in foil, soft scrambled eggs, creamy pinto beans, and fillings that run from chorizo to brisket. No reservations, no fuss. It earned Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025 and a Pearl recommendation the same year.

Shuggie's Trash Pie on 23rd Street in San Francisco's Mission District has built a serious reputation around upcycled ingredients and unconventional pizza, earning a spot on Esquire's Best New Restaurants list in 2022 and Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025. The kitchen treats surplus and byproduct ingredients as the starting point rather than an afterthought, producing a menu that sits well outside the city's fine-dining mainstream — and closer to it in quality than the price point suggests.

Darling is an intimate cocktail bar on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, recognised on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List for its frequently rotating drink menu built around layered flavor combinations. A concise snacks menu rounds out an evening that rewards repeat visits as the program shifts with each new iteration. Book ahead; the bar's following has outgrown its capacity.

A Hunterdon County roadhouse that earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, The Sergeantsville Inn sits in New Jersey's Delaware River farm corridor, where the sourcing story is written into the surrounding landscape. The kitchen operates inside a tradition of American inn dining rooted in region and season, making it one of the more consequential addresses in rural New Jersey dining right now.

On Tremont Street in Boston's South End, Desnuda Cocina & Bar earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List — a signal that the neighborhood's dining scene continues to attract serious attention. The room draws regulars who return for the bar program and a kitchen cooking with evident confidence. South End positioning places it squarely in Boston's most competitive dining corridor.

A former food stall that earned a 2025 Michelin Bib Gourmand, Boonie's on North Western Avenue serves a tight, pork-forward Filipino menu where the rice cooker sets the room's tone before you've even sat down. Chef Erik Tas keeps the format intimate and the cooking direct: crispy pork belly, herb-marinated cuts, steelhead trout in tamarind broth, and a deep-fried plantain spring roll that closes the meal on a high note.

A Tí sits on Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park, where LA's Mexican-American dining scene is pressing well past tradition into something more considered. The fish tacos earned the restaurant a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List, signaling a kitchen working at the intersection of familiar Mexican frameworks and the city's broader multicultural pantry. The room runs warm and neighborhood-scaled, which places it a long way from the omakase tier but squarely in the category of places worth planning around.

On Mission Street's densest restaurant corridor, Loltun earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List — a signal that the San Francisco dining scene is paying close attention. The address places it squarely in the Mission District's long tradition of ambitious cooking at accessible price points, where daytime and evening service often tell quite different stories about a kitchen's range and ambition.

Lumikha on Fulton Street earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, signaling its arrival as one of Houston's more closely watched newer openings. Located in the Northside corridor at 4928 Fulton St Suite A, the restaurant draws attention for a collaborative front-of-house and kitchen approach that fits Houston's expanding tier of ambitious independent dining.

Saint-Germain earned a Michelin star in 2025 alongside a Resy Best of the Hit List nod, marking St. Claude Avenue's arrival as a serious dining address in New Orleans. The contemporary format sits at the upper end of the city's tasting-menu tier, drawing a repeat clientele that treats the room less like an occasion restaurant and more like a trusted neighborhood anchor with technical ambition.

On Fairfax Avenue, Lucia has earned back-to-back recognition from both Resy's 2025 Hit List and Esquire's 2025 Best Martinis in America — a pairing of accolades that signals something more considered than a typical neighborhood bar. The room sits at an address long associated with LA's independent food culture, and the martini program has become a reference point in a city rapidly redefining what serious cocktail work looks like outside the obvious hospitality corridors.

Metlapil landed on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, signaling its place among Portland's most closely watched newer openings. Located on NE Glisan Street in the Northeast quadrant, it operates in a city where ingredient-led, culturally specific cooking has replaced generic farm-to-table as the dominant register. A reservation here requires planning, not spontaneity.

Located on North Front Street in Philadelphia's Kensington-adjacent corridor, Fleur's earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, placing it among the year's most closely watched new arrivals. The address alone signals something deliberate: a neighborhood still in transition, a dining room that doesn't need a marquee block to draw attention.

Cane Pazzo earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List from an address in Hanahan, South Carolina — a signal that serious dining ambition is no longer confined to Charleston's peninsula. Located at 1276 Yeamans Hall Rd, this is a restaurant pulling regional attention into a suburb that few food writers had reason to visit before. For the full picture of what's happening in the area, see our full Hanahan restaurants guide.

Perseid brings a Gulf Coast sensibility to Montrose's all-day bistro format, earning a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025. Chef Aaron Bludorn frames approachable, ingredient-driven cooking against the texture of one of Houston's most restaurant-dense neighborhoods. The address on Loretto Drive has quickly become a reliable reference point in a city that rewards exactly this kind of confident, place-rooted cooking.

On a residential stretch of NE Dekum Street, Lil' Barbecue has earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List — recognition that places it firmly in Portland's current conversation about serious smoke-driven cooking. The format is casual, the ambitions are not. This is the kind of neighborhood barbecue spot that draws well beyond its immediate zip code.

schmuck. earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, a signal that the East Village address at 97 1st Ave has moved from newcomer to confirmed reservation. The room operates in a tier where front-of-house craft and menu precision matter as much as the food itself. It sits below the white-tablecloth stratosphere of Midtown but above the neighbourhood casual bracket, occupying the increasingly competitive middle ground where New York dining is most alive.

Michelin-recognized Mijoté brings Chef Kosuke Tada's Parisian neobistro mastery to San Francisco's Mission District, where daily-changing French cuisine unfolds at an intimate 22-seat counter and table setting. This acclaimed bistro combines classical technique with California's seasonal ingredients, complemented by a curated natural wine program.

To Be Determined sits in Miami's Coral Way corridor, earning a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List in a city where new openings come and go quickly. The address at SW 32nd Avenue places it in a residential pocket that rewards deliberate visitors over casual passers-by. For a milestone dinner or a celebration worth planning around, it belongs in the shortlist.

Audrey brings Sean Brock's deep engagement with Southern Appalachian foodways to a progressive tasting format on Nashville's Meridian Street. Recognized by Michelin, Opinionated About Dining, and Esquire since opening, it occupies the thoughtful, research-driven end of Nashville's fine dining spectrum. Weekend brunch service extends the kitchen's reach beyond the evening menu.

Louis Corner on Tremont Street earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, placing it among Boston's most-watched openings of the year. Located in the South End, it sits in a neighbourhood that has become one of the city's most competitive blocks for serious dining. A reservation here is worth planning ahead.

Si Papa 3190 landed on Resy's 2025 Hit List, a signal that Coconut Grove's dining scene is drawing serious attention beyond Miami's usual flashpoints. Located on Commodore Plaza, this address puts it at the centre of a neighbourhood that rewards those willing to look past South Beach and Wynwood for their evening. The recognition points to a restaurant that has found its footing in one of Miami's most residential and historically grounded districts.

An '80s-inspired izakaya on Rittenhouse's Sansom Street corridor, Dancerobot brings chef Jesse Ito's modern Japanese comfort food into a format built for grazing and returning. Landing on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, it pairs a drinks-forward program with small plates that track the looser, shareable end of Philadelphia's evolving Japanese dining scene.

Evviva sits on Dauphine Street in the Bywater, a neighborhood that has become one of New Orleans' most closely watched dining corridors. Named to Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, it has drawn attention well beyond the local food press. Sparse in the details it shares publicly, Evviva operates on the kind of word-of-mouth momentum that fills rooms before reservation systems catch up.

Opened in June 2024 in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood, Sanders BBQ Supply Co. has already earned a Resy Best of the Hit List nod and critical praise for barbecue that carries the influence of the Great Migration's Southern traditions north. The oxtail gumbo and rib tips are the early anchors of a menu that draws from hardwood smoke and regional soul food craft, about 12 miles south of the Loop.

A Michelin-starred tasting menu operating out of a Northwest Houston strip mall, Tatemó reframes Mexican cuisine through the lens of heirloom corn and masa craft. Chef Emmanuel Chavez works with nixtamalized grains sourced across Mexico to produce a format that sits closer to a serious tasting counter than a tortilleria, despite its modest exterior. Bring your own wine — the restaurant operates without a liquor license.

Named to Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, KAYU has quickly established itself among the restaurants worth planning around on Washington, D.C.'s 17th Street NW corridor. The address puts it within the Dupont Circle dining cluster, where a growing set of destination-worthy tables has emerged alongside long-established neighbourhood staples. Expect the kind of reservation that rewards early planning.

Casa Brasa on Preston Road earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, placing it among the year's most-watched Dallas openings. The name signals live-fire cooking — brasa being the Spanish and Portuguese term for glowing embers — and the address puts it squarely in the prosperous Preston Hollow corridor, where the city's appetite for serious cooking has grown steadily. Reserve ahead; attention of this kind shortens availability fast.

Osteria Il Muro on West Congress Street earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List, a signal that Denton's dining scene has developed enough depth to draw national editorial attention. The address sits in a city better known for its music venues and university culture than its restaurant credentials, which makes the recognition worth taking seriously. This is the kind of neighborhood osteria that rewards repeat visits over single-occasion tourism.

Enclos earned two Michelin stars in its first full year on Sonoma's East Napa Street, placing contemporary Californian cooking at the top of the town's dining tier. Chef Brian Limoges and Wine Director Ian Cobb run a tight, focused operation with a 320-label list strong in California and France. For serious dining in Wine Country, this is the address that matters in 2025.

Cuddlefish landed on Resy's 2025 Hit List, a signal that Dunwoody's dining scene is drawing attention beyond the Atlanta perimeter. Located on High Street, the restaurant sits in a suburb that has quietly developed a more considered food culture. For visitors exploring the area's restaurant scene, Cuddlefish represents the kind of independently-minded opening that earns national editorial notice without relying on a flagship-city address.

Da Gama brings Portuguese-Indian cooking to Houston Heights, drawing on the culinary crossroads of Goa and Lisbon in a canteen format inside the M-K-T development. The menu pairs Goan- and Lisbon-inspired dishes with an eclectic wine list and cocktails, earning a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025. It is one of Houston's more specific culinary propositions in a city that rewards specificity.

Tiger Sun on Memorial Drive earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, signaling its arrival as one of Atlanta's more closely watched new openings. The address places it in the Reynoldstown corridor, where the city's dining character skews independent and neighborhood-rooted. The recognition positions it alongside a small tier of Atlanta restaurants drawing sustained national attention.

Kissho House Omakase on Locust Street brings the counter-format omakase tradition to Philadelphia's dining scene, earning a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025. In a city where tasting-menu formats have grown more diverse and ambitious, Kissho House represents the specialist tier: small-format, booking-dependent, and pitched against a different peer set than the neighborhood's broader restaurant row.

void occupies a Milwaukee Avenue address in Logan Square, operating in a Chicago dining tier where neighborhood ambition regularly outpaces Loop formality. A 2025 Resy Hit List honoree, it competes in the same city conversation as the Filipino-inflected fine dining of Kasama and the progressive tasting formats anchored further north. The daytime and evening divide here is sharp enough to treat each service as a distinct proposition.

Jacqueline sits on SE Clinton Street in Portland's inner Southeast, earning a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List — a signal that the neighborhood's appetite for serious, ingredient-led cooking has only sharpened. The room draws a loyal crowd who return not for occasion dining but for the kind of food that makes a Tuesday feel considered. Plan accordingly: demand runs ahead of availability most nights.

Domodomo Kō earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, a signal that Dallas's dining scene is paying attention. Located at 2681 Howell St in Uptown, the restaurant operates in a city where Japanese-influenced formats are gaining serious traction alongside established steakhouses and Italian stalwarts. For anyone tracking where Dallas eats next, this address is worth knowing.

On Charles Street in Beacon Hill, ZURiTO earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, placing it among the year's most closely watched openings in Boston. The restaurant sits in a neighbourhood known more for Federal-period brownstones than for dining destination status, which makes the recognition all the more pointed. Reservation demand reflects the accolade.

Theodore Rex on Nance Street sits at the intersection of neighbourhood familiarity and serious culinary intent. Chef Justin Yu's New American kitchen has earned consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025, plus an Opinionated About Dining ranking of #325 in North America for 2025. The kitchen rewards repeat visits, with a format that reads differently once you know what to order.

A no-reservations Vietnamese kitchen on Third Avenue in the East Village, Bánh Anh Em draws pre-opening queues for house-baked bánh mì baguettes, pho built on homemade noodles, and a menu anchored in the full breadth of Vietnamese street-food forms. Named to Resy's Best of the Hit List 2025 and featured in 'The Best Things I Ate,' it is one of New York City's most talked-about casual Vietnamese destinations.

Beethoven Market earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, signalling its arrival as one of Mar Vista's more serious neighbourhood dining addresses. The format reads as market-adjacent casual, but the editorial attention it has attracted points to cooking that operates at a different register than its zip code might suggest.

Parish Barbecue sits on Manor Road in East Austin, operating inside a scene that has pushed Texas pit tradition into conversation with more technically ambitious cooking. Named to Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, the restaurant applies considered technique to the central Texas format — slow smoke, quality sourcing, and a menu that reads as both rooted and contemporary.

Los Angeles's first craft molino operates inside Mercado La Paloma, nixtamalizing 100% Mexican heirloom corn daily to produce masa for a focused menu of antojitos rooted in Mexico City street-food tradition. Awarded a 2025 Michelin Bib Gourmand and ranked 38th on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants 2024, Komal delivers some of the most technically grounded tortillas in the city at single-dollar price points.

Unapologetic Foods' ADDA brings its Queens-born Indian kitchen to the East Village, where fierce seasoning, ornate presentations, and Le Creuset Dutch ovens of slow-cooked curries have earned a spot on Resy's Hit List and a ranking in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America casual list. The room runs loud and full most nights, and the food rewards those who order ambitiously.

YooYee on North Broadway in Chicago's Uptown neighbourhood earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List, placing it among the year's most-watched openings and reservations. The address at 4925 N Broadway puts it in a stretch of the city that has historically operated outside the downtown dining circuit, making the recognition all the more pointed. Booking ahead is advisable.

A Michelin Plate Lebanese restaurant in Fulton Market, Beity brings heritage-driven cooking into one of Chicago's most architecturally considered dining rooms. Chef Ryan Fakih draws on family recipes to build a menu anchored in mezze and tasting-menu format, with cocktails built around arak, Aleppo, and tahini. Recognised on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, it occupies a distinct niche among the district's $$$$ tier.

88 Club sits on South Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills, earning a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List — a recognition that places it among the city's more closely watched new additions. The address alone signals intent: this is Beverly Hills dining at a moment when the neighbourhood is reasserting itself as a serious culinary address rather than a legacy-brand holding pattern.

A tiny Cambodian restaurant in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Bong earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List for its direct, sour-forward take on Khmer cooking. The menu moves between traditional preparations and sharper modern interpretations, staying close to the cuisine's brash flavor profile throughout. Find it at 724 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, NY 11216.

Among Charleston's French-influenced restaurants, Merci occupies a specific and deliberate position: a small, intimate dining room on Pitt Street where refined seasonal cooking sits alongside classics like beef Wellington for two. Named to Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, it draws comparisons to the quieter, more considered end of the city's dining scene rather than its louder, high-traffic establishments.

Paprika ATX on North Lamar earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, a signal that Austin's broader dining scene is taking notice of what's happening above 51st Street. The restaurant sits in a stretch of the city where the format tends to be casual and the cooking often punches above its surroundings — a combination that tends to generate exactly this kind of recognition.

Alebrije brings Mexican cooking with genuine ingredient focus to East Nashville's Gallatin Avenue corridor, earning a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List and national dish recognition. The room sits inside a neighbourhood that has traded honky-tonk proximity for a more local, residential dining character. For a city still defining its relationship with regional Mexican food, this address carries real weight.

Supérette on East Passyunk earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, a signal that Philadelphia's most competitive dining corridor continues to produce restaurants with national pull. The address places it inside a stretch where neighbourhood character and serious cooking coexist without performance. What that translates to on the plate is worth finding out in person.

A Mexicana-owned 'Spanglish' restaurant and shop in Sylvan Park, Tantísimo serves pan-Latin small plates, larger dishes, and brunch that draws equally from Nashville and Mexican traditions. Recognized on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, it occupies a distinct lane in Nashville's Latin dining scene — community-rooted, format-flexible, and harder to categorize than most of its peers.

Vern's earned a Michelin star and a Resy Best of the Hit List nod in 2025, placing it among the most closely watched contemporary American tables in Charleston. Located on Bogard Street in the Upper Peninsula, it represents a strand of Charleston dining that leans into the set-menu format as an editorial statement rather than a hospitality convenience. For a city that built its reputation on coastal abundance, Vern's argues that structure and restraint can be just as defining.

Bar Bucce sits on N Miami Ave in Little Haiti, landing a Resy Best of the Hit List recognition in 2025 and drawing attention as one of the corridor's more deliberate wine-and-food rooms. The address places it at the northern edge of Miami's emerging dining axis, where smaller operators are building programs with more editorial intent than the Design District's polished flagships.

A dock-to-table seafood counter on Coming Street where the menu changes daily based on what came off local boats that morning. Chubby Fish holds 40 seats, takes no reservations, and has drawn lines around the block since opening in 2018. Named to Resy's Best of the Hit List 2025, it's one of Charleston's clearest expressions of the city's relationship with its coastal waters.

On H Street NE, Tapori brings the cadence of Mumbai's street food culture to Washington, D.C. — a cocktail bar and eatery from the team behind Daru, recognised on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025. Classic Indian street snacks meet an inventive drinks program in a format built for groups, celebrations, and the kind of evening that stretches well past its original end time.

Emeril's opened on Tchoupitoulas Street in 1990 and built a category of its own: New New Orleans cooking that placed Louisiana's produce at the centre of serious fine dining. Now holding two Michelin stars and a 2026 La Liste score of 92 points, the Warehouse District flagship operates under Chef E.J. Lagasse, whose tasting menu reframes the restaurant's founding classics through a lens shaped by Frantzén and Core by Clare Smyth.

Pink Lotus Thai Restaurant in Atlanta's West Midtown earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, placing it among the city's most closely watched dining addresses. Located on Brady Avenue in the Blandtown corridor, it offers a considered Thai program in a neighbourhood better known for industrial conversion than serious cooking. For a celebration dinner or a table worth planning around, it lands in a different register than Atlanta's tasting-menu circuit.

A Michelin Bib Gourmand izakaya on the Mission-Hayes border, Izakaya Rintaro translates the informal Japanese pub format into San Francisco's mid-price dining tier without softening the concept. Multiple recognition accolades from 2023 to 2025 place it consistently in the city's recommended casual Japanese category, making it a dependable choice for a milestone meal that doesn't require a special-occasion budget.

Nashville's Michelin Plate Italian in the Wedgwood-Houston corridor, iggy's earned Resy's Best of the Hit List recognition in 2025 alongside its Michelin distinction. The kitchen operates at the $$$ tier where serious Italian cooking meets the city's sharpest front-of-house sensibilities. It's a room where the collaboration between kitchen and floor reads clearly on the plate and in the glass.

Truth BBQ holds back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition (2024 and 2025) alongside a Resy Best of the Hit List nod for 2025, placing it in a narrow tier of Houston barbecue operations that attract serious critical attention. Located on South Heights Boulevard in the Heights neighborhood, it sits at the $$ price point with a 4.5 Google rating across more than 3,400 reviews. Plan logistics early: weekend queues are a known variable at this format of walk-in Texas barbecue counter.

Baso holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) and a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List, placing it among a small group of American restaurants in Houston drawing both critical and neighborhood attention. Situated on West 19th Street in the Heights, it operates in the upper price tier while maintaining the character of a genuine local anchor rather than a destination-only address.

A 2025 Michelin Plate holder on Mid-City's Bayou Road, Addis Nola brings Ethiopian communal dining to New Orleans at the $$ tier. Shared injera platters, fasting-tradition vegetable preparations, and a Resy Hit List nod for 2025 make it the city's reference point for the cuisine, occupying a lane no other recognized New Orleans restaurant fills.

Fallow Kin on Cambridge's Main Street earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, a signal that the city's dining scene has room beyond the white-tablecloth institutions. The address places it squarely in a neighbourhood where independent restaurants are shaping a more casual, ingredient-focused counter to Cambridge's established fine-dining tier.

Illata in Philadelphia presents Modern American cuisine with a seafood-forward focus from chef-owner Aaron Randi. Must-try dishes include the Citrus salad with kohlrabi and cara cara orange, ricotta gnudi dusted with crushed hazelnuts, and the steelhead with Meyer lemon and Thai chili gelée. The 24-seat BYOB dining room offers an ever-changing, seasonal menu served with precise technique and playful flavor contrasts. Named one of Philadelphia’s best restaurants by The New York Times in 2023, Illata pairs farm-fresh produce and local seafood with a warm, intimate service style that feels like an elevated dinner party.

Double Luck Chinese lands on Resy's 2025 Hit List as one of Miami's most talked-about openings, bringing maximalist takes on American Chinese classics to Upper Eastside's growing restaurant corridor. The room runs loud and social, with a bar program that holds its own weight. Located at 1085 NE 79th St, this is where Miami's appetite for irreverent, high-energy dining found a home in familiar-yet-reframed territory.

Duchess at The Nobleman earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, placing it among the year's most closely watched openings in Fort Worth. Located at 503 Bryan Ave in the Near Southside, it represents a broader shift in the city's dining ambition — away from steakhouse dominance and toward something more considered. Reservations are advisable given the recognition it has attracted.

VanHorn's at 238 W 2nd St in downtown Austin earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, signaling its place among the city's most-watched dining destinations. The address puts it squarely in the dense restaurant corridor where Austin's cooking ambitions run highest. For the full picture of what's around it, see our Austin restaurants guide.

Kann is Portland's James Beard Award-winning live-fire Haitian restaurant from chef Gregory Gourdet, ranked #117 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual North America list. Wood-fired cooking anchors a Caribbean-inspired menu that is entirely gluten and dairy-free, backed by a 550-bottle wine list weighted toward France and Oregon. Open Tuesday through Sunday from 4pm at 548 SE Ash St.

Opened in August 2023 in Fishtown, Meetinghouse earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List by doing something harder than it looks: making tavern food taste genuinely considered. The menu is short and ostensibly familiar, but a dressed green salad and a hot roast beef sandwich have become the kind of dishes that fill reservation slots weeks out. This is the neighborhood bar Philadelphia has been quietly wanting.

Baby Bistro occupies a restored Victorian cottage in Los Angeles's Victor Heights neighbourhood, where Chef Miles Thompson runs a tightly seasonal, family-style prix fixe menu with a modernist edge. Named to Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, the restaurant operates in deliberate contrast to corporate dining formulas, making it one of the more considered spots in the city for a meal that rewards attention.

Sorelle brings a focused Italian program to Charleston's historic lower peninsula, earning a Michelin Plate and a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List. The kitchen's commitment to handmade pasta situates it within a growing tier of serious Italian cooking in the American South. Located at 88 Broad St, it belongs on any considered eating itinerary through downtown Charleston.

Osteria Mozza brings the Nancy Silverton-founded California-Italian template to Georgetown's M Street corridor, landing on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List in its first full year of operation. The format sits in Washington D.C.'s upper-casual tier: serious pasta and mozzarella bar technique without the formality of the city's tasting-menu circuit. A useful address for the neighbourhood and a credible signal in the city's Italian dining conversation.

Lin Asian Bar + Dim Sum brings a dim sum format to Austin's West Sixth corridor, landing on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025. The bar-forward concept positions itself at the intersection of classic Cantonese tradition and the kind of technique-driven cooking that has reshaped American dining in mid-sized cities. At 1203 W 6th St, it occupies a corner of Austin that has steadily accumulated ambitious, category-aware restaurants.

Sook landed on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, making it one of Washington D.C.'s most closely watched new arrivals. Located on T Street NW in the Shaw neighborhood, the restaurant has drawn attention for the cohesion of its front- and back-of-house operation. For a read on where D.C. dining energy is currently concentrated, this address is part of that conversation.

L'Échelle is a French-inspired bistro on SE Division Street in Portland, Oregon, recognized on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025 and carrying forward Naomi Pomeroy's culinary legacy through a concise, technique-driven menu. The room reads as a neighborhood wine bar with serious cooking underneath — the kind of place that rewards planning ahead rather than walking in.

Cafe Yaya on Lincoln Avenue earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, signaling its place among Chicago's most talked-about neighborhood restaurants. Located in Lincoln Park, it draws the kind of repeat crowd that makes occasion dining feel personal rather than performative. A reservation here rewards the effort.

Saigon Babylon sits on the fifth floor of a Main Street building in Cambridge, MA, bringing Southeast Asian cooking to a city better known for contemporary European and New American dining. Recognized on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, it occupies a distinct position in the Cambridge restaurant scene — further up the address and further outside the expected than most of its neighbors.

Mābo brings yakitori to a serious register in North Dallas, earning a spot on Esquire's Best New Restaurants list for 2024 and Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025. Chef Bounahcree Kim works a format rooted in Japanese skewer tradition, drawing critical attention in a city still building its Japanese dining identity. A 4.6 Google rating from early reviewers suggests the reception is holding.

Mutra landed on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, a signal that North Miami's dining scene is drawing serious attention beyond the city's established corridors. Located on NE 123rd Street, it occupies a stretch of North Miami that rewards those paying attention to where the next wave of Miami-area dining is developing. The venue's recognition points to a kitchen taking ingredient sourcing and execution with genuine seriousness.

Jade Rabbit on SE Belmont earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List, a signal that Portland's ingredient-focused dining scene has another address worth tracking. The restaurant sits in one of the city's most food-dense corridors, where sourcing transparency and regional produce have long shaped how kitchens operate. A reservation-worthy addition to the Southeast Portland dining circuit.

On a quiet South Boston corner, Lenox Sophia operates from a dining room barely large enough to hold a secret. Chef Shi Mei runs seasonal tasting menus — both meat and vegetarian — without regional allegiance, in a BYOB format that strips away formality and invites the table to set its own pace. Named to Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025.

Opened in June 2025 on the West Bank of the Mississippi, Saint Claire occupies a century-old property in Algiers, roughly 15 minutes from the French Quarter. The kitchen merges coastal Cajun technique with French sensibility, plating seasonal produce alongside rabbit rillettes, rare tuna paillard, and duck confit in a setting of antiques, oak trees, and dark roux gumbo. Resy named it to the 2025 Best of the Hit List.

Opened in September 2024 inside the Salamander Washington DC hotel, Dōgon brings Kwame Onwuachi's Afro-Caribbean vision to the capital with a shareable menu that moves between West African, Jamaican, Trinidadian, and Creole traditions. The Michelin Plate recipient earned a spot on Esquire's Best New Restaurants list for 2024 and Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025. Chef de cuisine Martel Stone, a Chopped Next Gen winner, executes a tightly edited menu where every dish earns its place.

Pêche Seafood Grill on Magazine Street occupies a specific and serious tier in New Orleans dining: a wood-hearth-driven seafood kitchen drawing on Gulf Coast, South American, and Spanish traditions, with a James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant (2014) and sustained Michelin Plate recognition anchoring its credentials. Over 5,000 Google reviews averaging 4.6 and repeated Opinionated About Dining rankings confirm its durability in a city that produces stiff competition at every price point.

From the team behind Lord's and Dame, Crevette brings a coastal Mediterranean register to West Village dining — white tablecloths, a bar with its own social gravity, and seafood that pulls from the coasts of Spain and France. Sicilian sashimi, peekytoe crab agnolotti, and Dover sole for two anchor a menu built for repeat visits. Resy's 2025 Hit List.

Amá sits on West Oxford Street in Philadelphia's Olde Richmond corridor, earning a spot on Resy's 2025 Hit List for a dining experience that rewards patience and attention. The restaurant operates within a neighborhood that has quietly become one of the city's more interesting culinary addresses, drawing diners who arrive with time to spare rather than somewhere to be next.

I Cavallini landed on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, a signal that Brooklyn's dining scene continues to generate serious momentum outside Manhattan. Located on Grand Street in Williamsburg, the restaurant draws a loyal neighborhood following alongside destination diners. Its recognition points to a particular kind of Italian-leaning address that earns repeat visits rather than one-time curiosity.

The Bitterroot Club earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, a signal that Portland's food community is paying close attention to what's happening at this SE Stark Street address. The recognition places it among a cohort of restaurants that earn critical attention before, not after, the wider conversation catches up. Book early.

3 Doors Down Cafe & Lounge earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, placing it among Portland's most closely watched neighborhood restaurants. Located on SE 37th Avenue in the Hawthorne corridor, the cafe and lounge occupies a tier of Portland dining defined by sourcing-conscious cooking and a commitment to the kind of regulars-first hospitality that the city's southeast neighborhoods have built their reputation on.

All Day Pizza on Speedway has earned a place on Resy's 2025 Hit List, signaling its standing in Austin's increasingly competitive casual-dining tier. The format does what the name suggests: pizza, available across the day, in a neighborhood that rewards that kind of unambiguous commitment. For visitors working through Hyde Park or the North Loop corridor, it sits in a practical and well-regarded slot.

Elise earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, placing it among Atlanta's most-watched new openings at 1280 Peachtree St NE in Midtown. The restaurant has generated attention at a moment when Atlanta's fine-dining scene is consolidating around a handful of serious, nationally recognised addresses. Book early — demand is running ahead of availability.

k|n sits on Virginia Avenue in Atlanta's Virginia-Highland neighbourhood, earning a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025. The restaurant occupies a tight address in one of the city's most walkable dining corridors, positioning it alongside the small-format, design-conscious venues reshaping Atlanta's mid-tier fine dining conversation. It is the kind of room where the physical container sets the tone before a dish arrives.

Drusie & Darr by Jean-Georges brings a major national fine-dining name to Nashville's downtown core, landing on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025. The restaurant occupies 231 6th Ave N and represents the kind of chef-driven, design-conscious expansion that signals a city's arrival as a serious dining destination. For Nashville's upper tier, it is a meaningful new data point.

Husk Nashville has maintained a consistent presence on Opinionated About Dining's North America lists since 2023, placing it among the more critically watched Southern restaurants in the city. Located on Rutledge Street in the Rutledge Hill neighborhood, the restaurant operates under chef Ben Norton and draws a crowd that spans local regulars and visiting food writers. It is one of the more credible arguments for serious Southern cooking in a city not short on the genre.

A vinyl listening bar and modern American bistro on 19th Street, SIDE A brings high-fidelity audio and considered bistro cooking under one roof in San Francisco's Mission District. Recognised on Resy's 2025 Hit List and the San Francisco Chronicle's Best New Bay Area Restaurants of 2025, it represents a format gaining traction in American dining: the record bar as serious food destination.

Ryokou holds a 2025 Michelin Plate and a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List, placing it among Atlanta's most closely watched Japanese restaurants. Located at 565 Northside Dr SW, it occupies the $$$$ tier where ceremony and precision are expected at every course. For a milestone dinner in a city still developing its fine Japanese identity, it belongs in the conversation.

The Paper Bridge brought Northern Vietnamese cooking to Southeast Portland in November 2023, and the co-chef team behind it makes their own rice noodles in-house — a rare practice that anchors a menu spanning pho, Haiphong-style crab spring rolls, and Sapa-inspired skewers. Recognized on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, it is among Portland's most considered treatments of regional Vietnamese cuisine.

Mai sits on the Northern Avenue waterfront in Boston's Seaport, a stretch that has become the city's most contested dining corridor. Recognized on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, it has drawn attention as one of the newer addresses defining the neighborhood's direction. The address at 31 Northern Ave places it squarely in the conversation about where Boston's restaurant ambitions are heading.

Dooky Chase on Orleans Avenue has held its place in New Orleans' Creole dining tradition for decades, earning a Michelin Bib Gourmand and consecutive Opinionated About Dining recognition through 2025. Lunch service runs Tuesday through Friday, with dinner on Friday and Saturday evenings. A 4.4 Google rating across more than 3,000 reviews reflects a following that spans locals, critics, and visitors to Tremé.

BETSY is a live-fire neighborhood restaurant in Altadena, California, where wood-fired cooking over a centerpiece hearth drives a focused menu of rib-eyes, pork collar, and even cheesecake. The natural wine list is thoughtfully curated, and the atmosphere reads genuinely local rather than destination-seeking. Recognized on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, it earns its place in Altadena's emerging dining conversation.

Wa Shin sits inside a residential tower on Stuart Street in Boston's Bay Village, operating as an edomae-style omakase counter built around Japanese-imported fish and restrained, precise seasoning. The L-shaped hinoki counter anchors a spare, material-driven room. Recognized on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, Wa Shin runs three seatings nightly, making advance reservations a practical requirement.

A 2025 Resy Hit List honoree on Austin's East Side, East End Ballroom has drawn attention as one of the neighbourhood's more talked-about new arrivals. Located at 4715 E 5th St in the 78702 zip code, the venue sits in a corridor that has redefined how Austin eats and drinks over the past decade. It earns its place on any considered itinerary of the city's current dining moment.

Katami earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List, marking it as one of Houston's more closely watched new arrivals on West Dallas Street. The restaurant operates in a city where serious dining ambitions are increasingly common, and Katami has generated attention quickly enough to position itself among the addresses drawing repeat visitors from across the 610 loop.

Situated inside Printemps on Wall Street, Maison Passerelle is Chef Gregory Gourdet's downtown New York restaurant drawing on French, African, and Asian culinary traditions. The room pairs soaring frescoes and stained glass with an open kitchen and bold tilework. Named to Resy's Best of the Hit List in 2025, it represents one of Lower Manhattan's most compelling recent additions to the fine dining conversation.