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"&lt;strong&gt;Andrew Knowlton&lt;/strong&gt;, the\u00A0&lt;em&gt;Bon App\u00E9tit\u00A0&lt;/em&gt;Foodist, spent countless hours and traveled thousands of miles in search of America's Best New Restaurants (see the winners in our &lt;a title=\"The Hot 10: The Best Restaurants in America in 2013\" href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/restaurants-travel/best-new-restaurants/slideshow/the-hot-10-the-best-restaurants-that-opened-in-america-in-2013-2\"&gt;Hot 10 feature&lt;/a&gt;). After way too many dinners alone at the bar, he returned home with this list of 50 trendsetting nominees\u2013from New York's Alder to Charleston's Xiao Bao Biscuit. Mad-scientist chef Wylie Dufresne brings high-concept molecular cuisine to the masses with his casual second restaurant Don\u2019t be fooled by the traditional, wood-paneled look of this Echo Park spot; this isn\u2019t your parents\u2019 favorite place for a \"night out.\" After running a successful pop-up of the same name, 26-year-old chef Ari Taymor opened Alma on a (relatively) seedy block of downtown L.A. The clean, white-walled room looks more like an art gallery than a restaurant, and the food (sea urchin toast with burrata; sweet corn soup with nasturtium ice cream) defies categorization At this 24-seat spot in the back of an art gallery, there's a good chance you may eat something chef Fredrik Berselius found growing around the corner Aside from a few straw-covered Chianti bottles, nothing about Stumptown Coffee founder Duane Sorenson\u2019s second Portland spot reads Italian. Instead, the combination of exposed beams, marble countertops, an open kitchen, and comfortable, low-slung banquettes gives it more of a neighborhood bistro vibe Chef-owner Josef Centeno shifts his focus to the Tex-Mex cooking of his native San Antonio at this high-ceilinged, big-flavored restaurant around the corner from his scene-stealing B\u00E4co Mercat Steel City\u2019s cool kids hang out here for smart cocktails, addictive snacks (like fried smelts with chervil aioli), and a category-killing brunch At Bar Sajor you feel like you\u2019re eating in someone\u2019s home\u2014if that someone lived in a former bank with soaring ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace Minneapolis\u2019 North Loop neighborhood is packed full of warehouses-turned-restaurants, but the details at Borough (antique-cheese-grater light fixtures, mismatched flatware) set it apart The folks behind Torrisi Italian Specialties do the Italian-American red sauce joint right. How they do it: quality ingredients that make classics like a pork chop with peppers feel new again You now have an excuse to leave the Strip. A former general manager and sommelier from famed Vegas Thai joint Lotus of Siam is behind the deep wine list and large Southern and Bangkok-style Thai menu Is it possible that L.A.'s best new Italian restaurant doesn't serve pasta? When Nancy Silverton's involved, anything is possible At this latest venture from Michael Schwartz (of the famous Michael\u2019s Genuine), throwback French dishes\u2014frog\u2019s legs, onion soup, c\u00F4te de boeuf for two\u2014feel new again If you think D.C.\u2019s dining scene begins and ends with men in suits power-lunching, this double-identity ramenya-izakaya will show you what\u2019s what These adjacent sibling Mediterranean restaurants\u2014the former with a tasting menu, the latter set next door in a 1930s Standard Oil filling station\u2014have carved out an inviting corner in a once-rough patch of St. Louis In a state where lobster is king, Eventide\u2019s dedication to the mighty oyster is a bold move. The menu lists around 20 different varieties displayed in a massive trough of Maine granite on the bar Macau, the former Portuguese colony of China, is better known for its casinos than for its food. And yet this unlikely region serves as the inspiration for Abraham Conlon and Adrienne Lo, who formerly ran the cult-hit supper club X-Marx In a dining culture consumed with chef worship, this little Madison spot goes in the opposite direction: The team behind Forequarter cooks as a \u201Ccollective,\u201D drawing inspiration from their local produce and their love of cured meats While the food scenes in Austin and Houston continue to gather buzz, chefs like Matt McCallister are out to make sure Dallas gets cred right alongside them A real, New York\u2013style Jewish deli in Atlanta? Believe it. The classics are all here: matzo-ball soup, piled-high pastrami sandwiches, lox-and-bagel Menus change with the season, but watch for sunchokes with freekeh, braised mustard seeds, and lovage, as well as pastry chef Bobby Schaffer\u2019s desserts and chocolates Angelenos are reaping the benefits of chef David Myers\u2019s obsession with Japan. The modern dining room at this stylish Century City spot has sleek, dark wood finishes and moody lighting to spare The young, noisy crowd packing this warehouse space comes here for two reasons:  hometown love for chefs Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman, and a casual menu that draws as much from Italy as from the American South Fine dining is alive in Austin, where 31-year-old empire-builder Larry McGuire has reinvigorated local institution Jeffrey\u2019s and its sister spot, Josephine House Rachel Yang\u2019s been doing the Korean-American mashup thing since long before it became a national trend Now that he\u2019s finished nailing Italian and New American, maybe we should have known that Andrew Carmellini would show New York what he could do with rustic French bistro food Open-hearth cooking is huge right now, but few are doing it as well as Michael Paley With a mini-empire of St. Louis dining spots (Pastaria, Taste, Brasserie) to his credit, chef Gerard Craft doesn\u2019t have anything to prove. And yet, at his reopened Niche, he\u2019s taking as many risks as ever Pig-centric and nose-to-tail. Reclaimed wood and farmer-focused. Sure, it\u2019s a tried-and-true formula from Portland to Portland, but the crew at Old Major excel because they execute it perfectly The old-school fish house has been reborn in this outsize seafood emporium, outfitted in sleek white tile and floor-to-ceiling windows There\u2019s white marble and raw-bar towers as far as the eye can see at FIG chef Mike Lata\u2019s casual seafood hall Two chefs, two restaurants, one kitchen. This concept allows chefs Seth Siegel-Gardner and Terrence Gallivan to flex their culinary muscles in a variety of ways Chef Richard Kuo refreshes the wine-bar formula at this lively, stylish spot Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski\u2014along with chef-partner Ryan Prewitt\u2014opened this homage to fish just down the street from their famed pork emporium, Cochon Located in what was once the Puritan Cake Company, this Cambridge spot proves that modern New England cuisine encompasses far more than chowder A strip mall may not be the first place you might think to look for one of the country\u2019s best new restaurants, but you\u2019ll be glad you did when you stumble upon this Japanese gem Everybody looks good at this dimly lit, wood-paneled spot, which quickly turned from a neighborhood favorite into a dining destination Nashville\u2019s newest star has nothing to do with country music. This rowdy neighborhood joint in an old foundry is the work of chef Philip Krajeck Husband-and-wife Colby and Megan Garrelts cut loose at this relaxed down-home, Midwest-inspired joint Joshua Skenes, the owner of this 32-seat stunner, is at the top of his game. The chef has given the utmost attention to every detail, from the copper pots in the open kitchen to the custom wood-burning oven A magazine once labeled Spoon\u2019s John Tesar \u201Cthe most hated chef in Dallas.\u201D We\u2019re willing to look past that when the food\u2019s this good Things really get interesting on the wide-ranging four-course prix fixe, with offbeat dishes like congee and leg of Colorado lamb Austin is a city of big flavors, and thanks to this stunningly designed newcomer, Thai is now foremost among them This shoebox-size, \u00FCber-stylish spot has all the rillettes, tartiflette, and choucroute your Francophile heart could desire. Just don\u2019t get too attached to any one of Frederik de Pue\u2019s excellent dishes; this menu changes by the day Michael Sheerin (longtime chef at Paul Kahan\u2019s Blackbird) and his brother, Pat, have turned this former Wicker Park bathhouse into one of Chicago\u2019s most original restaurants It seems simple enough: \u201CPut stuff on toast.\u201D But at this downtown Philly establishment, it\u2019s an art form, whether that \u201Cstuff\u201D is super-fresh Maryland crab and sliced jalape\u00F1o or beef tartare with fresh horseradish The loft-like Cambridge dining room mixes classic Tolix chairs and rope-wrapped chandeliers, but don\u2019t let the light-hearted decor confuse you--there's high-level French-inspired food coming out of chef Matthew Gaudet's kitchen Chef Renee Erickson followed up her tiny spot the Walrus and the Carpenter (one of Bon App\u00E9tit\u2019s Hot 10 picks from 2012) with this spacious, bright dining room in Seattle\u2019s Wallingford neighborhood One of the best restaurants in Minneapolis is also one of its least pretentious. Industrial in look and casual in style\u2014you walk up to the counter to order, then grab a seat\u2014WSK is turning out straight-up fantastic international street food A husband-and-wife duo sling affordable, bang-up drinking food from across Asia in a former gas station; what\u2019s not to like? Chinese dumplings, Thai-style chili shrimp, Korean mung bean cakes"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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