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I Cavallini
2 star
Italian
$$$
Williamsburg
The Italian sequel to the celebrated Four Horsemen is bigger and breezier, but still has a welcome moody undertow, like notes from a parallel minor infiltrating a song in a major key.
By Ligaya Mishan
Oct. 14, 2025
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Emeril’s
NYT Critic’s Pick
3 star
Creole, New American, Tasting Menu
$$$$
The chef E.J. Lagasse took over his famous father’s New Orleans flagship, which at 35 years old now exalts the most luxurious and old-fashioned elements of fine dining with energy and affection in a tasting menu that romps through the city’s culinary history and Emeril’s own archive — including edits on barbecue shrimp, pitch-dark gumbo and banana cream pie.
By Tejal Rao
Oct. 7, 2025
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Baby Bistro
NYT Critic’s Pick
3 star
Bistros, New American
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Baby Bistro invites you in with a frisky little menu of about six dishes. You don’t have to, but order them all and you put together an unfussy, family-style tasting from the chef Miles Thompson that zips by in the twinkling warren of this Los Angeles dining room.
By Tejal Rao
Sept. 23, 2025
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Alinea
2 star
American
$$$$
When Alinea opened in 2005, it was arguably the most exciting restaurant in America, committed to a then-groundbreaking style of cooking that confounded diners’ expectations of what food should be. Twenty years on, dinner has become more smoke-and-mirrors spectacle than meal, leaving little time to appreciate the occasional dish that still rises to the level of revelation.
By Ligaya Mishan
Sept. 16, 2025
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Atelier Crenn
3 star
Tasting Menu
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Dominique Crenn’s character-driven tasting menu is full of technical marvels and a profusion of beauty that shifts with the seasonality of the Bay Area, but draws from the chef’s biography and stories of her French childhood.
By Tejal Rao
Sept. 8, 2025
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Sunn’s
NYT Critic’s Pick
2 star
Korean
$$
Chinatown
At this tiny, welcoming spot in Chinatown, the chef Sunny Lee offers imaginative, unpretentious takes on Korean dishes, like dak mandu oozy with schmaltz and a nightly lineup of seasonally attuned banchan, the small plates that complete a Korean meal.
By Ligaya Mishan
Sept. 2, 2025
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Diane’s Place
NYT Critic’s Pick
2 star
Asian
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Diane’s Place is a singular and stylish neighborhood gem in Northeast Minneapolis that exalts Hmong cuisine with abundance, joy and technique. Crisp, airy scallion mini croissants appear on the dinner menu, when the pastry chef Diane Moua expands into the savory foods of her family gatherings.
By Tejal Rao
Aug. 26, 2025
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Vinai
NYT Critic’s Pick
2 star
Asian
$$$
Vinai, named for the refugee camp where the chef Yia Vang was born, serves layered, generous dishes that celebrate the adaptability of Hmong cuisine and the many influences that have shaped it, and continue to, including those of the Midwest.
By Tejal Rao
Aug. 26, 2025
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Smithereens
NYT Critic’s Pick
3 star
American, Seafood
$$$
East Village
The sea, in all its tumult and unexplored depths, is at the heart of Nicholas Tamburo’s brief but enthralling menu, which takes New England as a starting point but ranges widely, leaving a trail of maple syrup and fish bones.
By Ligaya Mishan
Aug. 19, 2025
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Dōgon by Kwame Onwuachi
NYT Critic’s Pick
2 star
African, American, Caribbean, Creole
$$$$
Kwame Onwuachi’s sequel to his acclaimed Tatiana in New York is grander in scale and, perhaps inevitably, less personal, with the feel of an empire in the making.
By Ligaya Mishan
Aug. 5, 2025
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I Cavallini

Emeril’s

Baby Bistro

Alinea

Atelier Crenn

Sunn’s

Diane’s Place

Vinai

Smithereens

Dōgon by Kwame Onwuachi