BNR 2019

With Texan transplants bringing succulently smoked Central Texas BBQ ribs to downtown Honolulu’s food trucks serving California street-style tacos, Honolulu’s dining scene just seems to be getting better.

There’s no better way to ring in a new decade than by gorging yourself on the best food our beautiful city has to offer.

These 14 places really stood out.

Take a first glance at New Orleans’ best new restaurants of 2019, and it might be hard to pin down exactly what thread ties them all together.

Nostalgia was the trend of the year in Milwaukee restaurants in 2019.

Detroit's dining scene continued to evolve and grow in 2019.

After a relatively lackluster 2018, Seattle jumped right into opening great restaurants in 2019 (okay, to be fair, two of these opened at the very tail-end of 2018), keeping audiences excited with second offerings from local favorites, lots of Filipino flavors, and a few spots that are worth hopping on a ferry for.

Dallas has been bursting at the seams with fantastic restaurants for a while now, from no-frills mom-and-pops to extravagant options from internationally renowned chefs -- and it looks like the secret’s finally been let out, with national publications finally starting to take notice of our culinary bounty.

It’s been a good year for food in Austin.

Houston is America’s restaurant boomtown.

From Central Texas barbecue to adorably twee French cuisine.

Somehow, another year of Philadelphia restaurant openings is in the books, and 2019 was the year of the instant cult classic.