2023 Hot List: The Best New Restaurants in the World
Our global team spent the year researching, visiting, and vetting the entries to bring you a definitive directory of the best new restaurants.
La Semilla—Atlanta
This little tropical area serves up some of the tastiest plant-based dishes in the city. Married duo Sophia Marchese and chef Reid Trapani filled the space with unique personal touches, such as vintage decoration and hand-painted banana leaves on the bar's ceiling. Marchese selects drinks matching the place. Trapani's dishes pay honor to Marchese's Cuban heritage and his travels to Latin America. The star of the menu may be the soup made with local lion's-mane mushrooms.
Le Doyenne—Saint-Vrain, France
Australian chefs James Henry and Shaun Kelly transformed the former stables (马厩) into a working farm, restaurant, and guesthouse driven by the principles of regenerative agriculture. More than one hundred varielies of fruits, vegetables, and herbs make their way into Henry's cooking after being carefully nurtured by Kelly.
Mi Compa Chava—Mexico City
Scafood is a hangover cure in Mexico, and almost everyone eating here is devoted to fixing last night's damage from drunkenness and getting a head start on creating today's. On the sidewalk, crowds of locals and tourists alike line up for fisherman Salvador Orozco's creative takes on Sinaloa and Baja seafood. Anything from the raw half of the menu is a sure bet, though cooked dishes like fish can help fill out a meal.
Vilas—Bangkok
Can a dish inspired by a Spanish recipe using Japanese ingredients still be considered Thai? For Chef Prin Polsuk, one of Bangkok's most acclaimed Thai chefs, it most certainly can. At his latest restaurant, a small dining room at the base of Bangkok's landmark King Power Mahanakhon Tower, he gets ideas from King Chulalongkorn's 1897 journey around Europe and the foreign ingredients and cooking lechniques he added to the royal cookbooks.
