Resy’s curated list of the top restaurants in America, selected by its editorial team. It highlights places that deliver exceptional food, strong identity, and lasting appeal.
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New York City, United States
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.
Los Angeles, United States
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.
Washington D.C., United States
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.
Atlanta, United States
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.
Miami, United States
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.
Chicago, United States
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.
Philadelphia, United States
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.
San Francisco, United States
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.
Houston, United States
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.
Portland, United States
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.
Dallas, United States
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.
Austin, United States
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.
Cambridge, United States
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.
Charleston, United States
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.
Nashville, United States
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.
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Overview
The 2025 Resy Top Restaurants in America list recognizes 15 establishments spanning the country's major dining markets. Lei in New York City takes the top position, followed by Los Angeles' Baby Bistro and Washington D.C.'s Maison. The selection covers 15 different cities, representing a coast-to-coast view of American dining without geographic concentration.
This edition distributes recognition across the United States with one restaurant per city, hitting major metros including New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, and Portland. The geographic spread means the list functions more as a national sampler than a ranking of dining density in specific markets. Lei leads from New York City, while Baby Bistro represents Los Angeles at number two. The list includes both coastal and interior cities, with southern representation through Atlanta, Miami, and Houston, and midwest coverage via Chicago. No single region dominates the top positions.
Resy's 2025 list of top American restaurants identifies 15 venues across 15 cities, offering a distributed view of the country's dining landscape. Lei in New York City ranks first, followed by Baby Bistro in Los Angeles and Maison in Washington D.C. The selection includes major markets from coast to coast—Philadelphia's Dancerobot at number seven, San Francisco's Mister Jiu's at eight, and Portland's L'Échelle closing the top ten. Each city gets one representative, making this less a concentration map and more a national survey of where Resy sees strong performance.
The 2025 Resy Top Restaurants in America presents a 15-venue list with complete geographic distribution—15 cities, 15 restaurants, no duplicates. Lei claims the number one position from New York City, while Baby Bistro follows from Los Angeles and Maison from Washington D.C. Atlanta's Madeira Park ranks fourth, with Miami's Double Luck Chinese at five and Chicago's Dimmi Dimmi Corner Italian at six. The list includes Philadelphia (Dancerobot, number seven), San Francisco (Mister Jiu's, eight), Houston (Da Gama, nine), and Portland (L'Échelle, ten).
The selection methodology and specific criteria behind the rankings remain Resy's determination, but the geographic spread is clear: major coastal cities mix with interior markets, and the list avoids clustering multiple venues in any single dining destination. This structure means each city's representative carries weight as that market's standout rather than competing against local peers. The one-per-city format makes the list function as a national tour rather than a deep dive into specific dining scenes, useful for planning travel across different regions but less helpful for comparing options within a single market.
