The Hot 20 · every Friday

The hottest new restaurants, ranked weekly

Each week we rank twenty new restaurants in each city by our measure of attention: dated reviews and write-ups, booking demand and awards. Every place is checked to be open that week.

Cities

How the chart works

  1. New or newly back. Opened in the last year, or relaunched in the last 90 days.
  2. Talked about now. Dated reviews and write-ups from independent critics, publications and creators. Sponsored posts don't count.
  3. Hard to book. Where we can see it, how far ahead the first prime-time table is.
  4. Checked every week. If we can't confirm it's open, it comes off.
How we pick, in full