Although it no longer tenders money, Tender Bar + Kitchen provides reputable craft cocktails, upscale American comfort foods, and a casual yet swanky atmosphere out of this vintage bank-turned-speakeasy location.

Mae is another BYOB supper club drawn to Portland for its fresh produce, but what makes it different is the Appalachian cuisine straight from a Southern family's recipe book.

Le Colonial is not your hip Vietnamese food truck or shabby take-out joint, it’s an elegant French fusion restaurant featuring South East Asian cuisine and 1920s-style decor.

The Pit Room is a Southern smokehouse serving up Texas-sized helpings out of a shabby road-side shanty turned hip gathering spot.

At La Calle, a vibrantly colorful Mexican restaurant featuring street tacos inspired by the immense food scene in Mexico City, the menu is just a series of simple equations.

Cafe Azura is as bright, breezy, and beautiful to dine in as any restaurant in the French Riviera from where the upscale menu draws its influence.

Tellez is San Antonio’s worst kept secret for heaping, homemade stuffed tamales.

Although the original depression-era diner closed years ago, the relatively new Earl Abel’s is still a retro-feeling diner for low country comfort foods even though it doesn’t reside in the same location.

Located in Café 78 inside the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) is SuperHappySushi, which seats 80 in its spacious warehouse setting five days a week.

At home in the Dallas Farmer’s Market, Laili dishes out noteworthy authentic Afghan cuisine and handmade Turkish pastries.

Sun Diner, named for the Sun Record Company that claims to be the origin of Rock n’ Roll, with its collaged walls ultra American, breakfast-only options is as consistent as your favorite diner, but a little more upscale and a lot more hip.

At Etc., a cool American cuisine spot that can only be described as Southern swank, the menu is upscale and the craft cocktails are spirit-inspired.