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    The Best Restaurants in America

    What are the criteria for making it onto Eater's annual list of " The Best Restaurants in America? " We ask   Bill Addison , Eater's restaurant editor, to weigh in on his 38 essential picks for dining your way across the country.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Jan 21, 2017 • 1 min read

    What are the criteria for making it onto Eater's annual list of "The Best Restaurants in America?" We askBill Addison, Eater's restaurant editor, to weigh in on his 38 essential picks for dining your way across the country. Starting with the lobster thermidor at Petit Trois, Sqirl's crispy rice bowls and ricotta toast to the boiling hot pots of Sichuan Impression's chile oil-spiked fare, learn how these three LA restaurants are defining America's current dining scene. Addison also tells us which newcomers made the year's list, and why food lovers should start saving up for a night at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York, his pick for the best of the best.

    Music: "Clint Eastwood" (Instrumental) by Gorillaz and "Bird of Paradise" (Instrumental) by Fly By Pony

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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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      Abbie Fentress Swanson

      Independent reporter and producer

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    The full episode

    2 of 6
    ‘The Best Restaurants in America’ and power vegetables
    1. 0:00The Market Report: Mandarins
    2. 8:30The Best Restaurants in AmericaYou’re reading this
    3. 17:43‘The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs’
    4. 26:24'GoatMan'
    5. 37:37'Power Vegetables'
    6. 51:04Jonathan Gold says "Here's Looking at You"
    Back to Good Food