

Specializing in loh wah kiu village-style cooking, Uncle Lou was an immediate hit. So he did what anyone would do for a little excitement: He gathered a few friends and some of his family, and opened Uncle Lou, a Cantonese restaurant in Manhattan’s Chinatown. But retirement simply wasn’t a fit for Wong, who’s in his 60s. What to order: House Preserved Fish (varies) Smoked Mozzarella Grilled Cheese ($13) Sea Dog ($14) Aguachile ($16) rotating pie ($9).ħ5 Mulberry St., New York, NY At the start of the pandemic, Louis Wong decided to retire. The dining room gets louder as the night goes on, so walk in early with a group to sit out on the patio and try as many dishes as you can, or come in later and cozy up at one of the two-tops with a few snacks, a slice of pie to share, and a glass of whatever the bar recommends. You can’t go wrong with any of these dishes, especially when they come with a caviar topper.
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For food try the house-preserved fish, the seafood hot dogs, plus the grilled sandwiches and seasonal toasts. (We did.) Order small plates and wine-glasses for here, plus bottles to go-from the counter along the back wall, and because the wine offerings rotate frequently, buy a bottle if you love it. The menu will make you want to come back two nights in a row.

Whatever Loew-Banayan and their team are cooking-whether it’s a plate of buttered up crepes or a piece of toast holding a mound of blue cheese and halved figs-you won’t miss breakfast sandwiches for a moment.ġ741 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA This sunlit Cambridge wine bar has a fresh, interesting list-and the food is just as fun, bright and elegantly unfussy as the wine you’ll drink. A deviled pork trotter on the dinner menu, lightly breaded and served with sauerkraut, makes a very strong case for more restaurants cooking pig feet. While there might not be any breakfast sandwiches, there is made-from-scratch fried bologna piled onto bread, along with homemade sausages and poached eggs done up with the most velvety hollandaise. With just two additional cooks in the kitchen, and Loew-Banayan’s wife Bettina Loew-Banayan running the front of house, the tiny crew focuses on Old World cooking, influenced by Loew-Banayan’s meat-loving Hungarian ancestors, and informed by what their farmer and forager friends bring them each week. And even as the influence of platforms like TikTok grows and reshapes restaurant culture (whether we like it or not), a handful of new restaurants have decided to hell with fleeting trends.ħ57 Columbia St., Hudson, NY Cafe Mutton is technically a café, sure, but as the restaurant’s Instagram bio points out: “We don’t have fucking breakfast sandwiches.” Instead, in a cottage-like corner building on a quiet street in Hudson, New York, chef-owner Shaina Loew-Banayan takes a deliberately trend-averse approach. After the pandemic made plain exactly how thankless restaurant work can be, some of the places on this list are challenging industry norms and putting their staff first in ways that feel new and refreshing. Dishes and foodways that were previously hard to find in a lot of US cities are taking center stage, which means more Guyanese and South Indian and Palestinian and Indigenous Mexican food for all of us. The industry has been through a lot in the last few years, but these new restaurants point to a hopeful next chapter. We’d text each other with near-maniacal glee that we’d just experienced a transcendent bagel with marshmallow fluff and warm banana tahini jam (yes, seriously, take it up with Korshak Bagels in Philly), or a few wonderfully gelatinous dumplings and a plate of crab dip at a curtained speakeasy above a pho restaurant (Phởcific Standard Time, Seattle). But as we crisscrossed the country in search of the 50 best new restaurants of 2022, we were overwhelmed by how thrilling restaurant culture is at this moment. You’d think that after practically living in new restaurants while putting this list together, the last place the BA staff would want to be right now is another restaurant. See our final list of America's 10 Best New Restaurants here.
