30 editor picks across United States.
30 fine dining worth the trip across United States, editor-ranked by TableJourney. All United States guides.
Katie Button's Cúrate on Biltmore Avenue in Asheville won the 2022 James Beard Outstanding Hospitality award. The Pintxos tasting menu at the chef's counter.
OrderThe chef's tasting at the counter, with sherry pairings.
TipCounter tasting menu at the long bar requires booking 30 days ahead on Resy. The dining room is à la carte.
Michelin 1 Star + Green Star. Alice Waters' 1971 prix fixe restaurant: one menu per evening, market-determined, no choices. Reserve a month ahead at 09:00 PT.
Aubergine holds two Michelin stars inside L'Auberge Carmel at Monte Verde and 7th, where Justin Cogley cooks an eight-course coastal tasting menu.
OrderThe $285 tasting is the only menu; add the wine pairing when you book.
TipThe room seats a hotel's worth of diners at most; book on Tock well ahead, and budget for the 22% service charge on top.
Husk in Charleston opened in 2010 under Sean Brock and rebuilt Southern fine dining on heritage grains and hyper-local produce. Located in Downtown.
OrderThe cast-iron cornbread, plus whatever the wood grill is running.
TipBook on the website. Bar seats walk-in at 17:00 and serve the full menu.
Mike Lata and Jason Stanhope's FIG in Charleston has anchored the city's fine-dining scene since 2003. Both chefs hold James Beard Best Chef Southeast awards.
OrderThe fish stew, plus the bone-in pork chop with whatever seasonal sauce is up.
TipBook 30 days ahead on Resy at 10:00. Bar seats fill within an hour of opening.
Sam Hart's Counter- on West Morehead is the only Michelin-starred restaurant in North Carolina, with a one-star and a Green Star earned in 2025.
OrderThe full multi-course tasting; themes rotate every three months.
TipBook on Tock the day reservations open for the next season. Demand has been heavy since the November 2025 awards.
Michelin one-star French bistro in Uptown's The Quad that earned its star 48 days after opening in 2025. Led by chef Christophe De Lellis. Book 30 days ahead.
TipReservations release 30 days ahead at midnight CST. Order the Dover sole and save room for the Paris-Brest.
Dallas's original Michelin-starred restaurant, retained its one star for the second consecutive year in 2025. Tasting menu $170 per person. At 3309 Elm St.
TipReservations open on the 1st and 15th of each month at 8am CST on Tock and sell out within minutes. Set a calendar reminder.
Frasca Food and Wine in Boulder is Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson's James Beard-winning Friulian dining room since 2004, a 40-minute drive.
Goldee's Barbecue in Fort Worth is a Michelin-recognised pitmaster destination open only Friday through Sunday, and sells out early most days.
OrderBrisket, pork ribs, house-made sausage links, banana pudding.
TipArrive at opening or call ahead. They sell out most Fridays by 13:00 and do not restock once the pit is empty.
Joel Robuchon at MGM Grand in Las Vegas is the late chef's only US restaurant, the only three-Michelin-star kitchen in Nevada and a tasting-menu room.
TipThe 16-course menu degustation is the full experience; shorter four to six course menus run at lunch and earlier seatings.
Sanford on North Jackson is Milwaukee's fine-dining anchor since 1989; Justin Aprahamian, a James Beard Best Chef Midwest winner, leads the Surprise menu now.
Gavin Kaysen's Demi in the North Loop runs a 20-seat tasting-counter dining room in Minneapolis since 2017. James Beard Outstanding Restaurateur 2023.
Sean Sherman's Indigena by Owamni inside the Guthrie Theater runs the country's pre-eminent Indigenous tasting kitchen in Minneapolis since June 2026.
Gavin Kaysen's flagship in the old North Loop livery has run modern-American fine dining in Minneapolis since 2014. James Beard Best Chef Midwest 2018.
Dakar NOLA in New Orleans is James Beard winner Serigne Mbaye's Senegalese Creole tasting room in a Carrollton cottage, the 2024 Best New Restaurant.
Commis is Oakland's only two-Michelin-star restaurant. Chef James Syhabout runs a ten-course tasting on Piedmont Avenue with Thai-Chinese influences.
Chef David Utterback, a two-time James Beard Best Chef: Midwest finalist, applies rigorous fish-ageing technique to Benson's most acclaimed sushi counter.
Sorekara on New Broad Street in Baldwin Park holds two Michelin stars in the 2026 Florida guide, with a tasting menu rooted in Japanese technique.
Earl Ninsom's regional Thai tasting counter in Portland, hidden behind sister restaurant Phuket Cafe with 33 seats and two seatings a night.
TipReservations open monthly on Resy. The five-course menu rotates by Thai region and changes every six weeks.
Johanne Killeen's Al Forno on South Water Street invented grilled pizza in 1980. Wood-fire kitchen, baked pasta, Providence's most enduring fine-dining room.
OrderA grilled pizza Margherita and the baked penne with tomato cream.
TipNo reservations for parties under five; arrive by 17:15 or book parties of five-plus on Tock.
The Kitchen is Sacramento's only Michelin-starred restaurant, a chef's counter format with a six-course tasting menu on Broadway in Land Park.
OrderThe full six-course prix fixe with optional wine pairing
TipBookings open 90 days out via Exploretock. Single shows nightly, around 18:00, dietary requests at booking only.
Mixtli is San Antonio's first Michelin-starred restaurant, where chefs Diego Galicia and Rico Torres build a rotating tasting menu around one Mexican region.
TipThe menu changes every several weeks around a single region of Mexico. Seats are limited; book on Tock well ahead.
Atelier Crenn in San Francisco is Dominique Crenn's three-Michelin-star Cow Hollow flagship, a poetry-of-cuisine vegetable-and-seafood tasting in 30 seats.
TipSit at the chef's counter in the back for a longer hand-off and more conversation with the line.
Melisse is the 14-seat tasting counter hidden behind Citrin in Santa Monica, a two-Michelin-star room from Josiah Citrin and chef partner Ken Takayama.
OrderThe full tasting menu; the kitchen builds it around the week's market
TipAround 800 dollars for two before wine, with a strict no-cancellation policy; book two to three weeks out.
Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano's flagship in a 1938 Greyhound bus terminal. Bailey: 2019 James Beard Best Chef Southeast, 2022 Outstanding Chef winner.
Canlis in Seattle is the city's enduring fine-dining room: chef Aisha Ibrahim runs a five-course tasting that draws on her Filipino heritage and Pacific.
Nick Bognar's 18-course omakase sits in a glass pavilion behind Sado on The Hill, ranked the best restaurant in St. Louis by the Post-Dispatch since 2024.
TipChef-led nights run around $250 and the trained-team nights around $175; book through Sado. Eighteen small courses, so come hungry.
Bern's Steak House in Hyde Park is the 1956 dry-aged steakhouse running the largest restaurant wine cellar in the world: 500,000 bottles, 6,500 labels.
Campo at Los Poblanos on Rio Grande Boulevard is the farm to table tasting room on a working lavender farm in Los Ranchos, open nightly for dinner at 17:00.
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