Andrew Knowlton
Deputy Editor. Andrew has worked at Bon Appétit since, like, forever (2000 to be exact). He oversees the magazine's restaurant coverage, including the annual Hot 10 list, and writes the rather opinionated Foodist column that has run in the magazine since 2008. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters (the older is named after a popular Southern cocktail). He likes all Atlanta sports teams, boiled peanuts, the Dead, JAWS, steal frame bicycles, and running long distances. He dislikes all New York sports teams, kiwis, kidneys, green bell peppers, and drivers who park in bike lanes. Spirit food: Hash browns scattered, smothered, covered, peppered and, if he's really tipsy, chunked
Top 50 New Restaurants - Saison, San Francisco
Joshua Skenes, the owner of this 32-seat stunner, is at the top of his game. The chef has given the utmost attention to every detail, from the copper pots in the open kitchen to the custom wood-burning oven
Jeffrey's & Josephine House - #8 Best New Restaurants in America 2013
Details make the difference at the country's most stylish pair of restaurants
Ava Gene's - #5 Best New Restaurant in America 2013
At the trattoria-inspired Ava Gene's, the second restaurant from Stumptown Coffee Roasters founder and budding restaurateur Duane Sorenson, green-thumb cuisine becomes masterful
Top 50 New Restaurants - Spoon Bar & Kitchen, Dallas TX
A magazine once labeled Spoon’s John Tesar “the most hated chef in Dallas.” We’re willing to look past that when the food’s this good
Top 50 New Restaurants - Metropole, Cincinnati, OH
Open-hearth cooking is huge right now, but few are doing it as well as Michael Paley
Alma: Best New Restaurant in America 2013
The story of how this unassuming, 39-seat restaurant in Los Angeles became the restaurant of the year is, to put it in sports terms, like that of a minor league baseball player who goes from batting .200 one year to hitting a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth with two outs to win the World Series the next
Top 50 New Restaurants - The Squeaky Bean, Denver CO
Things really get interesting on the wide-ranging four-course prix fixe, with offbeat dishes like congee and leg of Colorado lamb
Inside Seattle Restaurant The Whale Wins
Images from Seattle's The Whale Wins, Andrew Knowlton's pick for 2013's ninth best restaurant in America
Tailored Staff Uniforms at Jeffrey's and Josephine House
Jeffrey's and Josephone House owner Larry McGuire and creative director Ryan Smith assembled an esteemed team of designers, the likes of which have worked with Phillip Lim and Zac Posen, to design, produce, and style every staff outfit on the property.
Top 50 New Restaurants - The Optimist, Atlanta GA
The old-school fish house has been reborn in this outsize seafood emporium, outfitted in sleek white tile and floor-to-ceiling windows
Top 50 New Restaurants - Daikaya, D.C.
If you think D.C.’s dining scene begins and ends with men in suits power-lunching, this double-identity ramenya-izakaya will show you what’s what
Top 50 New Restaurants - The Cypress Room, Miami
At this latest venture from Michael Schwartz (of the famous Michael’s Genuine), throwback French dishes—frog’s legs, onion soup, côte de boeuf for two—feel new again
Top 50 New Restaurants - Elaia and Olio, St. Louis MO
These adjacent sibling Mediterranean restaurants—the former with a tasting menu, the latter set next door in a 1930s Standard Oil filling station—have carved out an inviting corner in a once-rough patch of St. Louis
Top 50 New Restaurants - Carbone, NYC
The folks behind Torrisi Italian Specialties do the Italian-American red sauce joint right. How they do it: quality ingredients that make classics like a pork chop with peppers feel new again
The Optimist - #7 Best New Restaurants in America 2013
Named for a kid's sailing dinghy, The Optimist is the creation of Atlanta chef and managing partner Ford Fry, who clearly knows how to navigate a winner: It is without a doubt the best of a growing number of big-name fish houses that have opened this year
Top 50 New Restaurants - Fat Rice, Chicago
Macau, the former Portuguese colony of China, is better known for its casinos than for its food. And yet this unlikely region serves as the inspiration for Abraham Conlon and Adrienne Lo, who formerly ran the cult-hit supper club X-Marx
Top 50 New Restaurants - Grace, Chicago
Menus change with the season, but watch for sunchokes with freekeh, braised mustard seeds, and lovage, as well as pastry chef Bobby Schaffer’s desserts and chocolates
Top 50 New Restaurants - West Bridge, Cambridge MA
The loft-like Cambridge dining room mixes classic Tolix chairs and rope-wrapped chandeliers, but don’t let the light-hearted decor confuse you--there's high-level French-inspired food coming out of chef Matthew Gaudet's kitchen