Resy's Top 15 Restaurants in America (2025)

Lei is a wine bar on Doyers Street in New York City.

Baby Bistro is the right call for a special occasion dinner in Los Angeles that wants substance over spectacle. Chef Miles Thompson's seasonal, family-style prix fixe runs out of a restored Victorian house in Victor Heights, earning a 2025 Resy Hit List spot for its experimentally inclined cooking. Booking is currently easy; use that window while it lasts.

Maison Bar à Vins is a French wine bar and small-plates restaurant in Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C., recognised on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025. The extensive French-leaning wine list is the main draw, with refined bistro dishes built to accompany it. Booking is easy, the room is conversation-friendly, it is a strong choice for wine-led dining without a tasting-menu commitment.

Madeira Park is the Miller Union team's neighbourhood wine bar in Poncey-Highland, earning a 2025 Michelin Plate and a Resy Hit List nod for Mediterranean-leaning small plates and a serious wine program at $$$ pricing. It's the strongest argument in Atlanta for getting genuine kitchen credibility without the tasting-menu price tag or formality.

Double Luck Chinese earned a spot on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, it delivers: maximalist American Chinese cooking with a bar program to match in Miami's Upper Eastside. Booking is easy, the energy is high, it works best for groups or a date night where the room is part of the point. Not a wine destination, but a strong call for cocktails and shared plates.

Dimmi Dimmi Corner Italian is a Lincoln Park neighbourhood room serving tavern-style pizza, housemade pastas, crudos; and it's earned a spot on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List. Booking is easy, the format rewards repeat visits, it's the most accessible special-occasion option in the area that doesn't require months of advance planning.

Chef Jesse Ito's '80s-inspired izakaya in Rittenhouse Square is one of Philadelphia's more compelling evening bookings in 2025, landing on Resy's Best of the Hit List. Modern Japanese comfort food, a drinks program worth your attention, an Easy booking status make it a strong pick for dates, small groups, solo bar-seat dining alike.

Mister Jiu's is a modern Chinese restaurant on Waverly Place in San Francisco.

Da Gama is one of Houston's few Portuguese-Indian canteens, drawing on Goan and Lisbon traditions with a wine list and cocktail program to match. A 2025 Resy Hit List winner, it's the right call for exploratory weekend brunch in Houston Heights; more intellectually interesting than its canteen format suggests, easier to book than most venues at this level of recognition.

L'Échelle is a French-inspired bistro on SE Division Street carrying forward Naomi Pomeroy's legacy with a concise, technique-driven menu and a neighborhood wine bar format. Named to Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, it's currently easy to book but that's changing. A strong choice for solo diners, couples, small groups who want serious cooking without a formal occasion.

Far-Out is chef Misti Norris's fermentation-driven, whole-animal restaurant in East Dallas, landing on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025. The menu shifts constantly around Texas produce, making it the right booking for food-focused diners who want serious technique without a rigid format. Booking is currently straightforward; go before that changes.

Lenoir is South Austin's clearest answer for serious New American cooking at $$$; a Michelin Plate restaurant with an OAD Top 313 ranking, a seasonal tasting menu built on Texas ingredients, a value-focused wine list. The wine garden and later closing times (10:30 pm on weekends) make it one of the few tasting-menu options in Austin that genuinely accommodates a late sitting.

Darling is a compact, award-recognised cocktail bar on Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge's Central Square, named to Resy's 2025 Hit List for its frequently rotating drink menu built around layered flavour combinations. Best for solo diners and pairs who want to focus on the drinks; the concise snacks menu supports rather than anchors the experience. Book ahead via Resy; Easy to secure now, but that may change as recognition builds.

Merci is a small, French-influenced room on Pitt St that landed on Resy's 2025 Best of the Hit List for its refined seasonal cooking and dishes like beef Wellington for two. It's one of Charleston's more focused dinner options, well-suited to couples and solo diners who want classical technique over casual energy. Book a week out for weekends; easier to get into than its recognition suggests.

Tantísimo is a Mexicana-owned Spanglish restaurant in Nashville's Sylvan Park serving pan-Latin small plates and brunch with a Mexican-Nashville sensibility. A 2025 Resy Best of the Hit List honoree, it is one of the clearer reasons to eat west of Downtown. Easy to book, neighborhood in scale, worth the drive for food-focused visitors.