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.
A Zen temple to fermentation and grains in a strip mall.
SE Asia meets Balthazar.
Sexy, tiny, Parisian-style bistro in Greenwich Village.
A big, splashy room with precise and flavorful pastas.
Spanish and North African flavors for the carnivorous and the veg-loving.
Soulful, revelatory Hawaiian food.
The baby sister of Atelier Crenn stands on its own.
Hummus hits new heights.
The neighborhood spot of your dreams.
So good you almost forget it's good for the planet. Almost.
The Danny Meyer show comes to the new Whitney Museum.
Started as an appendage to Contra; now its own source of comfortable delight.
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