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6 days ago | opentable.com | Lisa Shames

Ever since celebrated chef Sujan Sarkar opened his first restaurant, he’s been on a mission to show diners the breadth of Indian cooking. NADU in Chicago is his latest and shines a spotlight on regional Indian cooking, from small village homes to street food in big cities. “This is not Indian cuisine, rather it’s cuisines of India,” says Sarkar of NADU’s menu, where each dish is labeled with its region of origin.

2 weeks ago | opentable.com | Alexis Benveniste

Almost eight years after it opened, Don Angie remains one of the toughest reservations to score in New York, and that’s because no one’s doing Italian-American food the way Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli do it. The culinary power couple had worked at restaurants across the city and developed the menu at Quality Italian prior to opening Don Angie in the West Village in 2017.

2 weeks ago | opentable.com | Alexis Benveniste

The journey first began in 2015 when Kim opened Oiji, a beloved Korean restaurant in the East Village. He closed that spot in the spring of 2022 to open OIJI MI in May that same year—just five months later, the restaurant already had a MICHELIN Star. The counter-only bōm, tucked behind OIJI MI, followed in February 2023 and secured its own coveted Star later that year. Brian Kim opened the MICHELIN-Starred OIJI and bōm within a year of each other in the Flatiron District.

2 weeks ago | opentable.com | Karen Palmer

Those who remember Trois Mec will be delighted to hear that the beloved LA legend is back for a final farewell tour. When chef Ludo Lefebvre opened the 24-seat Trois Mec in a repurposed Rafallo’s Pizza in a nondescript Hollywood strip mall in 2013, it was a revolutionary restaurant for Los Angeles. “At the time, there were no set-menu-only restaurants,” Lefebvre says. “You had places like Providence, but they had a la carte menus in addition to tasting menus.

2 weeks ago | opentable.com | Becky Duffett

SF’s Tiya at 1: Why this dazzlingly creative Indian restaurant is a must-visit The restaurant from brothers Pujan and Sujan Sarkar now has three different tasting menus along with a la carte options.