And GQ's 12 Best New Restaurants of 2016 Are...

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These are, officially, our 12 favorite new places to stuff your face right now, arranged in alphabetical order. Want to know who took home top honors as GQ's best new restaurant of 2016? Read GQ eater-in-chief Brett Martin's full piece.

Jakob N. Layman
Baroo, L.A.

A Zen temple to fermentation and grains in a strip mall.


Rick Poon
Cassia, Santa Monica

SE Asia meets Balthazar.


Spencer Starnes
Mimi, N.Y.C.

Sexy, tiny, Parisian-style bistro in Greenwich Village.


Jeff Marini
Monteverde, Chicago

A big, splashy room with precise and flavorful pastas.


Sierra Prescott
Moruno, L.A.

Spanish and North African flavors for the carnivorous and the veg-loving.


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Mud Hen Water, Honolulu

Soulful, revelatory Hawaiian food.


John Storey
Petit Crenn, San Francisco

The baby sister of Atelier Crenn stands on its own.


Marianna Massey
Shaya, New Orleans

Hummus hits new heights.


Andrew Thomas Lee
Staplehouse, Atlanta

The neighborhood spot of your dreams.


Krescent Carasso
The Perennial, San Francisco

So good you almost forget it's good for the planet. Almost.


Timothy Schenck
Untitled, N.Y.C.

The Danny Meyer show comes to the new Whitney Museum.


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Wildair, N.Y.C.

Started as an appendage to Contra; now its own source of comfortable delight.

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