From Eater, a list of the 38 most essential & influential US restaurants of the past 20 years. The list includes Momofuku Ssäm Bar, Via Carota, Husk, Alinea, Nong’s Khao Man Gai, Mission Chinese Food, and Gjelina.
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I don’t hate it. All the meals I’ve had from restaurants on this list were meals that I kept thinking about for a long time afterwards.
Odd to not see game-changers like SF’s State Bird Provision and DC’s Rose’s Luxury on here. 38 is a strange number, and to me, this is an strange list.
Eater 38 has been their branded thing since the beginning and just the number they chose that was large and yet small enough on a per city basis. It doesn't seem to mean anything other than in their original article it was based on a list of 33 restaurants from Budapest. It also happens to be the 20th anniversary of them making 38 listings.
I agree, the list is strange:
* Why use these filters? 1) "narrowed it, partially, by limiting ourselves only to restaurants that opened in 2005" and 2) "we included beloved restaurants from that period with an outsize influence, even if they have since closed"
* Their write-ups are boring and do not entice me to visit any of the restaurants, even the ones I've been to many times.
**** LA is woefully over-represented in this list.
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