Best New Restaurants
2022
At Eater, we love answering the question: What’s the best place to eat right now?
In 2022, by far the most normal-feeling year in, well, years, chefs and restaurateurs have been chasing passions and opening dream projects. This is the year that a bakery — not a bakery-plus-restaurant, not a bakery with a savory menu too, just a damn good bakery — can feel revolutionary, even when sticking to the classics. Capital-T Trends have had the space to take root as customers crowded into dining rooms and traveled around the country, bringing their excited energy with them to red-sauce Italian joints, vibey supper club-inspired spots, and so many pop-ups turned full-fledged restaurants. And the year’s most thrillingly personal trend sees chefs embracing a subversive interest in what would once have been called “fusion” cooking: At Eater’s Best New Restaurants of the year, bucatini tossed in tom yum sauce and pizza topped with vibrant green chutney aren’t gimmicks — they’re game-changers.
What binds these restaurants together, aside from having all opened between September 1, 2021, and September 30, 2022, and having the full-throated endorsement of our local and national staffers, is how each and every one is utterly original. To celebrate that fact, we’ve highlighted a few examples of what takes a restaurant from great to best; those “tipping points” range from a specific dish to specific people. These 15 restaurants represent the most exciting openings of the year — be sure to try them if you find yourself in these cities and keep an eye out for these names as they shape and influence dining culture in the months and years to come. — Hillary Dixler Canavan
Nashville, Tennessee
Audrey
Causa / Amazonia
The Chicken Supply
Con Todo
Dept of Culture
Espiritu
Gigi's Italian Kitchen & Restaurant
Kann
Khâluna
Khmai Fine Dining
Mabel's Gone Fishing
Machine Shop
Nami Kaze
Pijja Palace
San Ho Won
Washington, D.C.
Seattle, Washington
Austin, Texas
Brooklyn, New York
Mesa, Arizona
Atlanta, Georgia
Portland, Oregon
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Chicago, Illinois
San Diego, California
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Honolulu, Hawai'i
Los Angeles, California
San Francisco, California
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