Restaurants featured on Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives

Au Cheval, La Taqueria and Chichen Itza are the most critically recognised restaurants featured on Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives. This page covers 74 restaurants across 4 cities, ordered by how many professional critics write about them.

Updated August 2026

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives restaurants in Chicago

20 restaurants in Chicago featured on Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives. All acclaimed Chicago restaurants →

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives in Chicago

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives restaurants in San Francisco

14 restaurants in San Francisco featured on Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives. All acclaimed San Francisco restaurants →

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives in San Francisco

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives restaurants in Los Angeles

28 restaurants in Los Angeles featured on Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives. All acclaimed Los Angeles restaurants →

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives in Los Angeles

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives restaurants in New York

12 restaurants in New York featured on Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives. All acclaimed New York restaurants →

Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives in New York

How this list works

Every restaurant here carries a recorded mention from Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives. 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 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives has ever been. A publication with fewer than 8 recorded restaurants gets no page at all.

Read the full methodology →