The 50 Best New Restaurants in America

The collective dining experience right now is visceral, vulnerable, downright weird at times—and so very human. Nothing is more real than a whole fish, a dish that makes an appearance, in various forms, on many of the menus featured in the forty-first edition of our Best New Restaurants—reported, as always, by real humans: Jeff Gordinier, Joshua David Stein, Omar Mamoon, and yours truly. Over the past year, we crisscrossed the nation, sampling some two hundred new dining establishments that serve almost every conceivable type of cuisine. After a series of spirited debates, we settled on fifty restaurants that stood out from the rest, below, in alphabetical order by state. [View in Browser]( [Esquire]( [SHOP]( EXCLUSIVE [SUBSCRIBE]( Find the Perfect Gift This Holiday Season [SHOP NOW]( Find the Perfect Gift This Holiday Season [SHOP NOW]( [Esquire's Best New Restaurants in America 2023]( [Esquire's Best New Restaurants in America 2023]( The collective dining experience right now is visceral, vulnerable, downright weird at times—and so very human. Nothing is more real than a whole fish, a dish that makes an appearance, in various forms, on many of the menus featured in the forty-first edition of our Best New Restaurants—reported, as always, by real humans: Jeff Gordinier, Joshua David Stein, Omar Mamoon, and yours truly. Over the past year, we crisscrossed the nation, sampling some two hundred new dining establishments that serve almost every conceivable type of cuisine. After a series of spirited debates, we settled on fifty restaurants that stood out from the rest, below, in alphabetical order by state. [Read More](   [15 Things We'd Buy From Todd Snyder's Sale Section]( [15 Things We'd Buy From Todd Snyder's Sale Section]( From corduroy pants to a velour polo, there are steals to be had. [Read More]( [I Am Begging My Brain to Stop Thinking About 'Napoleon']( [I Am Begging My Brain to Stop Thinking About 'Napoleon']( Joaquin Phoenix's campy historical manboy—who loves himself a lamb chop and oinks when he wants to get nasty—will haunt me for years. [Read More](     [In the War Room with Steve Bannon]( [In the War Room with Steve Bannon]( One problem with hating pretty much everything Steve Bannon says and everything he stands for is that it might be exactly what he wants. “I hope they say I’m a devil,” he’ll tell me. “I hope they say I’m a fucking demon. I could give a fuck less. All I want to do is win.” Another is that maybe such dilemmas are a distraction, masking more crucial questions. For instance: Is Bannon truly someone forever playing the game several levels above and ahead of the rest of us, his every ambiguous zig and zag calculated to further a majestic master plan? Or is he actually just one more big-talking huckster, brazenly improvising whatever he can with whichever tools he can muster, making it all up as he goes? Or—maybe the most chastening possibility of all—might it be that in our modern-day runaway world of increasingly fractured and divided truths, there’s no longer a meaningful difference between the two? [Read More](   [72 Can't-Miss Gifts for Every Man in Your Life]( [72 Can't-Miss Gifts for Every Man in Your Life]( He said he didn't want a gift, but trust us, these are an exception. [Read More]( [Is the Campus Novel Dead?]( [Is the Campus Novel Dead?]( For Gen Z, the campus novel is a fantasy. In the age of student debt and hybrid learning, students are thinking long and hard about how fiction can better reflect the new reality of college. [Read More](     [Enough of All of This]( [Enough of All of This]( Enough. Enough with turning American streets into the OK Corral. Enough with vandalizing American shops and small businesses. Enough with vicarious combat through long-distance flexing. Three college students— in freaking Vermont— were shot for speaking the wrong language and wearing the wrong accessories. Enough, before all of this spirals completely out of control. [Read More](   [RUN 2024 Wall Calendar]( [LiveIntent Logo]( [AdChoices Logo]( Follow Us [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Notice]( | [CA Notice at Collection]( Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2023 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779