Restaurants featured on Best Thing I Ever Ate

Le Bernardin, Cosme and Gary Danko are the most critically recognised restaurants featured on Best Thing I Ever Ate. This page covers 38 restaurants across 4 cities, ordered by how many professional critics write about them.

Updated August 2026

Best Thing I Ever Ate restaurants in New York

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Best Thing I Ever Ate restaurants in San Francisco

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Best Thing I Ever Ate restaurants in Chicago

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Best Thing I Ever Ate restaurants in Los Angeles

4 restaurants in Los Angeles featured on Best Thing I Ever Ate. All acclaimed Los Angeles restaurants →

How this list works

Every restaurant here carries a recorded mention from Best Thing I Ever Ate. They are ordered by how many professional critic publications have written about them overall — not by user reviews, star averages or popularity.

This covers the most critically acclaimed restaurants in the 4 cities we index, so it is not an exhaustive list of everywhere Best Thing I Ever Ate has ever been. A publication with fewer than 8 recorded restaurants gets no page at all.

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