Here is a list of 12 restaurants from GQ's Alan Richman, which the article refers to alternately as the "best of 2013," "most outstanding of 2013," "places to go for a perfect night out," or the "restaurants you must eat at this year." So it's kind of like a restaurant to-do list for the year? Anyway, the restaurants include Los Angeles flatbread sandwichery Bäco Mercat, Brooklyn's grill happy St. Anselm, and the Houston's vegetable-obsessed tough door Oxheart. Of his picks, Richman says restaurants have learned to be more American, if not in cuisine then in attitude: "We yearn for restaurants that are like us: casual, kindhearted, original, and a little too loud." Below, the full list:
GQ's 12 Outstanding Restaurants of 2013
Little Serow, Washington, DC
Hog & Hominy, Memphis
Vedge, Philadelphia
Curate, Asheville, NC
Uchi Houston, Houston
West Bridge, Cambridge, Mass.
Oxheart, Houston
Central Kitchen, San Francisco
Bäco Mercat, Los Angeles
St. Anselm, Brooklyn
The Ordinary, Charleston
La Vara, Brooklyn
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