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Four Of GQ's Best New Restaurants Are In L.A.
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Each year, famed food critic Alan Richman and the team at GQ put together a pretty darn solid list of the country's best new restaurants. There's a healthy gaggle of L.A.-based eateries on the list this time around. In fact, we've got more in the gallery than any other city.
Chi Spacca, Alma(which was named Best New Restaurant by Bon Appetit Magazine last year), Orsa & Winston, Trois Mec all made Richman's list, making it four restaurants in the 25-spot list. That's a pretty big count, especially considering New York had only three restaurants in the mix.
Other cities with big showings were Portland and Austin, whose Qui restaurant, headed up by "Top Chef" winner Paul Qui, was named the Best New Restaurant in America. We haven't had the pleasure of dining there yet, but from the looks of their teaser video, he's created an Eames Office-esque workspace where ideas people and creatives are bought in to make everything from cutting edge recipes to unique earthenware and aprons for the restaurant.
You can read the full list here.
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