The Best New Restaurants of 2015, According to Esquire

Rachel Tepper Paley
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Come one, come all — we’ve snagged a sneak peek at Esquire list of 2015′s best new restaurants in America, and you might want to make a few reservations pronto.

The full article, which hits stands Oct. 20, describes the “cultural shifts” occurring in today’s fresh-to-the-scene restaurants. “There is something of a New Food Order emerging,” writes Ted Allen, the host of Food Network’s CHOPPED and a contributing editor at Esquire. “[The] rules, like the complexion of the country itself, are changing.”

In accordance, Esquire’s list includes representation from a mishmash of cuisines and cultures — Israeli, Mexican, New England, Southern, and Japanese, to name a few. If the way Americans are eating is changing, our palates are certainly the better for it.

Keep a lookout for the article, which includes a touching tribute to late Esquire editor Josh Ozersky. In the meantime, here are Esquire’s best new restaurants in America:

Best New Restaurant in America
Shaya (Modern Israeli)
4213 Magazine St.
New Orleans, La.
504-891-4213

Best Collaboration
The Progress (New American)
1525 Fillmore St.
San Francisco, Calif.
415-673-1294

Best Southern Food in the North
Muscadine (Southern)
1465 Northeast Prescott St.
Portland, Ore.
503- 841-5576

Best Southern Food in the South
The Grey (Southern)
109 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Savannah, Ga.
912-662-5999

Most Impossible Concept
Jockey Hollow (New American)
110 South St.
Morristown, N.J.
973-644-3180

Where to Eat in Los Angeles
Broken Spanish (Mexican)
1050 South Flower St.
Los Angeles, Calif.
213-749-1460

Nicole Rucker’s Doughnuts at Cofax Coffee (Doughnuts and Coffee)
440 North Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, Calif.
323-424-7485

Gjusta (Bakery and Cafe)
320 Sunset Ave.
Venice, Calif.
310-314-0320

Best New Restaurants in Chicago
Momotaro (Japanese)
820 West Lake St.
Chicago, Ill.
312-733-4818

Dolo Restaurant and Bar (Chinese)
2222 South Archer Ave.
Chicago, Ill.
312-877-5117

The Duck Inn (American)
2701 South Eleanor St.
Chicago, Ill.
312-724-8811

Most Hedonistic Meal Plan
Little Park (American)
Smyth Hotel
85 West Broadway
New York, N.Y.
212-220-4110

Shuko (Japanese)
47 East Twelfth St.
New York. N.Y.
212-228-6088

Santina (Italian)
820 Washington St.
New York, N.Y.
212-254-3000

Best Reborn Restaurant
Mountain Bird
251 East 110th St.
New York, N.Y.
212-744-4422, ext. 1