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Bon
Appétit's September issue lists its annual Top 10 Best New
Restaurants. The following is a list of the restaurants along with a
recipe from that restaurant which is available on the Bon Appétit
website.
Spring
Hill: 4437 California Avenue SW, Seattle; 206-935-1075
- Without
much fanfare, the Pacific Northwest has become one of the most
exciting foodie destinations in America. Between Seattle and
Portland, there are an increasing number of top-notch, chef-driven
restaurants--and Mark and Marjorie Fuller's Spring Hill in West
Seattle is at the top of that list. Mark shows respect for the
region's amazing seafood (Kumamoto oysters, Dungeness crab), but also
has the culinary skill to play with texture and flavors. His food
manages to be beautiful without being ornate. The sleek space, which
Marjorie works with confidence, and the dazzling open kitchen only
add to the lofty dining experience.
- Go
to the Bon Appétit website to get Spring Hill's recipe for Black Cod
with Fennel Chowder and Smoked Oyster Panzanella
Cakes
& Ale: 254 West Ponce de Leon Avenue, Decatur, Georgia;
404-377-7994
- At
the age of 27, Billy Allin gave up his job as a money manager and
enrolled in culinary school. After graduation, his cooking skills
landed him gigs at renowned restaurants, including Chez Panisse in
Berkeley and Watershed in Decatur. With his farm-to-table cooking
philosophy fully established, Allin and his wife, Kristin, decided it
was time to open "the restaurant where we would want to eat,"
he says. That restaurant is Cakes & Ale (from a phrase in
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night meaning "the good things in life"),
located east of downtown Atlanta. The couple's ideal restaurant turns
out to be a 50-seat neighborhood spot where the kitchen staff often
answers the phone when you call to make a reservation, and a
chalkboard announces the daily menu, which features simple, precise
dishes like braised rabbit grits with saba vinegar and spring onion;
buttermilk-rhubarb fool; and the addictive arancine here.
- Go
to the Bon Appétit website to get Cakes & Ale's recipe for
Citrus Arancine with Pecorino Cheese
Bar
Jules: 609 Hayes Street, San Francisco; 415-621-5482
- "How
many bowls of clam chowder can you make before you lose your mind?"
That was the question Jessica Boncutter asked herself just before
quitting her job at a popular San Francisco oyster bar. After she
resigned, she headed for London to take a break and hang out with
friends--and that's when inspiration hit. "All of my friends
were opening restaurants over there, and I said to myself: If they
can do it, I can do it." When she returned to the Bay Area, she
got to work on Bar Jules, a bohemian lunch and dinner spot in San
Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood. The chalkboard menu,
consisting of fewer than ten dishes, is big on California produce and
sustainable ingredients, which, to be honest, is nothing new in San
Francisco. What is new is that there's no mantra on the menu, no
stuffiness in the dining room--and there are no reservations. Chef
Boncutter's simple food includes everything from a perfectly cooked
wood-grilled burger to the lamb stew below. One thing you won't find
on the menu? Clam chowder.
- Go
to the Bon Appétit website to get Bar Jules' recipe for Lamb with
Preserved Lemons
No.
7: 7 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn;
718-522-6370
- The
walls are brick and plaster. The ceilings are pressed tin. And the
waitstaff is straight out of an American Apparel catalog. In short,
it's a quintessential Brooklyn neighborhood joint. But the first sign
that No. 7 is doing things a bit differently than your average
hipster restaurant is the fried broccoli appetizer: an entire head of
broccoli covered in an impossibly crisp tempura batter and paired
with a hummus-like black bean sauce and a dill and grapefruit salad.
It's a mishmash of disparate ingredients that somehow succeeds. The
same goes for the deconstructed romaine salad (romaine heart,
mozzarella-wrapped quince, lemon) and the pumpkin-seed-crusted tofu
featured below. The risk-taking, slightly theatrical menu comes from
chef Tyler Kord (left), who worked at Jean-Georges Vongerichten's
Perry St before opening No. 7.
- Go
to the Bon Appétit website to get No. 7's recipe for
Pumpkin-Seed-Crusted Tofu with Lemongrass Broth, Rice Noodles, and
Poached Eggs
Woodberry
Kitchen: 2010
Clipper Park Road, Number 126, Baltimore; 410-464-8000
- In
the early 1990s, long before sustainable, local, and organic became
the calling cards of chefs everywhere, Spike Gjerde was showcasing
the abundance of the Chesapeake Bay. With the opening of his latest
spot in the historic Clipper Mill complex--a brick-and-wood space
that has the look and feel of a restored farmhouse--Gjerde takes his
farm-to-table commitment to the next level. A wood-burning oven is
the centerpiece of a kitchen that turns out dishes like roasted
Rappahannock River oysters, Roseda Black Angus Farm hanger steak, and
fantastic flatbreads.
- Go
to the Bon Appétit website to get Woodberry Kitchen's recipe for
Spiced Pear Flatbreads with Goat Cheese and Mustard Cream
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