USA Today’s 2025 Restaurant of the Year

The first course of chef Corey’s goat cheese, fig, watercrees and pears with ports at the Scottsdale restaurant course on November 22, 2024.

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Asada Burrito from Ta’Carbon, a Mexican restaurant based in Glendale.

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Stuffed curry balls of chicken covered in rooster and pork panko, red bell paper, basil seen on November 13th, 2024.

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A taco stop is depicted on Wednesday, November 20th, 2024 at a taco stop in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Taco Stop was chosen as one of Usatodai’s best restaurants of 2025.

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The Australian octopus was featured on Wilmington’s Valdare Food & Drinks on Tuesday, November 12th, 2024. Valdea was chosen as one of the 2025 USA Today Restaurants.

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A serving of duck encroach is prepared for delivery. Naples Daily News held a The Table event with chef Kayla Pfeiffer at Bicycleette Cookshop Restaurant in Naples on Tuesday, October 29th, 2024. The facility created national news by acquiring a competitive location on USA Today’s 2025 Restaurant of the Year list.

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Restaurant of Year Baked Oki – Pensacola Pearl & Horn on Thursday, November 21st, 2024.

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There are lots of seafood dishes. Swordfish and Tikibur are surrounded by Cortez, a historic commercial fishing village surrounded by working fishermen, grey and white pelicans, and pristine mangroves.

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At the Wexford Irish Pub in Savannah, Georgia, lamb chops with scalloped potatoes.

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The $100 banana split completed on the side of the Armagnac Caviar will be seen on Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at Oak Park in Des Moines.

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Khao Soi, a Thai noodle soup, is depicted on Wednesday, December 11th, 2024 in downtown Indianapolis body.

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Jade Coleman scoops into a pork sandwich that pulls a coleslaw. Photo taken on Thursday, November 14th, 2024 at a Root Eatary and pub in Walcott, Indiana.

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A decade-old Portecetta in Louisville, Kentucky. (Includes fennel, rosemary pork jus, herbs and fennel pollen). November 1, 2024

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Cajun Cafe in Quebedo in Pineville, Louisiana serves chicken crackling (front) and crayfish queso made with aged cheese, etoffee, crayfish tails, and chef John Valentzella. It comes with a toast point.

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Bocado’s Pecho de res cocido is a 5-hour steamed beef brisket on Yukon mashed potatoes served with barbecue stewed sauce and Aleppo crema.

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Pistachiora rhamnoiset is located on the rooftop of Perham House Resort in Dennis Port. Lamb loin, fennel pistachio crumble, truffle ricotta agnolotti, stewed mushrooms, shallots and mushroom cream. November 7, 2024

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Pu Puplatter at Wusong Road Tiki Bar and Restaurant, Cambridge, November 13th, 2024.

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On Thursday, November 7th, 2024, pasta dishes will be served with fresh squid inlinguini, wild Gulf Rock shrimp, Arabiata, crispy breadcrumbs and green onions.

Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press

Delivered to Polenta on November 14, 2024 in Wilmington, North Carolina, the chicken thigh grill is one of 47 restaurants on the 2025 USA Today Restaurant of the Year list.

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I destroyed an artichoke heart on seed toast at Canal House Station.

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Garfield, New Jersey, Wednesday, October 30, 2024, plates of specialty hot dogs from Steve’s burgers. Steve’s Burgers has been nominated for the USA Today Restaurant of the Year 2025 list.

Anne-Marie Caruso/Northjersey.com

Brata delicatas squash appetizer from Augustine Salmeria, a farm-to-table Italian restaurant in Mamalonec, on October 30th, 2024.

Tania Savayan/The Journal News

South High Street’s Agni has been named Restaurant of the Year by USA Today. This dish is Thai Malai curry.

Barbara J. Pennick/Columbus Dispatch

There is a freshly baked feta under the roasted cherry tomatoes, and fresh rosemary serves hot slices of fresh toasted focaccia bread on social basis at Masilon’s Stone House.

Bev Shaffer/Canton Repository

On Saturday, November 16th, 2024, a hamachi collar with Romesco, potato crumble and garlic aioli at the Cincinnati aperture.

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“Patrick Bateman” is depicted in the Oklahoma City Crown on Thursday, November 7th, 2024.

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Beef Suya is served with fried plantain and cucumber sides.

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