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9 crazy-cool new restaurants we’re dying to try before 2021 ends

A touch of drama, intriguing fusions and super-cute lunch boxes are grabbing our attention as the year draws to a close

Tara Fitzpatrick, Senior Editor

December 17, 2021

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We’ve gathered a smattering of restaurants we’re dying to try as 2021 melts into 2022, with all the excitement and hope of a new year, a new chance to wow. This season, scrappy restaurateurs are digging in their hospitality heels and delivering cool new concepts that play with fusion’s boundaries in new ways, mash up dayparts, define authenticity through different lenses, entertain with tableside theatrics, offer one-of-a-kind experiences and pour up some powerful cocktails, too, all in an atmosphere that’s been custom curated and precision designed to bring on a specific mood.

Of note are elements of the unexpected, the dramatic and the just plain cool in this batch of Restaurants We’re Dying to Try, including Carversteak in Las Vegas, 2 Korean Girls in Chicago, YumCha Dumpling & Noodle Bar in Denver, Hilda and Jesse in San Francisco, The Fin in Philly, Dolce Vita in D.C., Maya in Charleston, S.C., Laurel Brasserie & Bar in Salt Lake City and Birdie’s in Richmond.

 

About the Author

Tara Fitzpatrick

Senior Editor, Informa Restaurant & Food Group

Tara Fitzpatrick is Food Management’s senior editor and a contributor to Restaurant Hospitality and Nation’s Restaurant News, creating editorial content for digital, print and events. Tara holds a bachelor of science degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kent State University. Before joining Food Management in 2008, Tara was associate editor at National Association of College Stores in Oberlin, Ohio. Prior to that, Tara worked as a newspaper reporter in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio, where she lives now. Tara is a fan of food history, legends, lore, ghost stories, urban farming and old cookbooks. 

Tara Fitzpatrick’s areas of expertise include the onsite foodservice industry (K-12 schools, colleges and universities, healthcare and B&I), menu trends, sustainability in foodservice, senior dining, farm-to-table and innovation.

Tara Fitzpatrick is a frequent webinar and podcast host and has served on the board of directors for IFEC (International Food Editors Consortium).

Tara Fitzpatrick’s experience:

Senior Editor, Food Management (Feb 2008-present)

Associate Editor, National Association of College Stores (2005-2008)

Reporter, The Morning Journal (2002-2005)

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