2023 Hot List: The Best New Restaurants in the World

Our global team spent the year researching, visiting, and vetting the entries to bring you a definitive directory of the best new restaurants.

La Semilla—Atlanta

This little tropical area serves up some of the tastiest plant-based dishes in the city. Married duo Sophia Marchese and chef Reid Trapani filled the space with unique personal touches, such as vintage decoration and hand-painted banana leaves on the bar's ceiling. Marchese selects drinks matching the place. Trapani's dishes pay honor to Marchese's Cuban heritage and his travels to Latin America. The star of the menu may be the soup made with local lion's-mane mushrooms.

Le Doyenne—Saint-Vrain, France

Australian chefs James Henry and Shaun Kelly transformed the former stables (马厩) into a working farm, restaurant, and guesthouse driven by the principles of regenerative agriculture. More than one hundred varielies of fruits, vegetables, and herbs make their way into Henry's cooking after being carefully nurtured by Kelly.

Mi Compa Chava—Mexico City

Scafood is a hangover cure in Mexico, and almost everyone eating here is devoted to fixing last night's damage from drunkenness and getting a head start on creating today's. On the sidewalk, crowds of locals and tourists alike line up for fisherman Salvador Orozco's creative takes on Sinaloa and Baja seafood. Anything from the raw half of the menu is a sure bet, though cooked dishes like fish can help fill out a meal.

Vilas—Bangkok

Can a dish inspired by a Spanish recipe using Japanese ingredients still be considered Thai? For Chef Prin Polsuk, one of Bangkok's most acclaimed Thai chefs, it most certainly can. At his latest restaurant, a small dining room at the base of Bangkok's landmark King Power Mahanakhon Tower, he gets ideas from King Chulalongkorn's 1897 journey around Europe and the foreign ingredients and cooking lechniques he added to the royal cookbooks.

Children's museums become an essential part of our play menu. Here are 4 famous muse-ums for families.

KidsQuest Children's Museum

It features huge windows, beautifully designed exhibits and an adventurous, two-story rope ladders in the opening gallery. Kids of all ages will love building with real tools in the re-cycled room, running the cash register, doing physics experiments on water in the Water Lab and much more. Reservations are required. You can make them online.

Imagine Children's Museum

Imagine Children's Museum's new 33,000-square-foot expansion doubles the museum's previous play space and its shows. At over 60,000 square feet, its current area is much bigger than other local children's museums (which average around 10,000-20,000 square feet). Visitors can spend hours in the museum.

Children's Museum of Tacoma

At 10,000 square feet in size, the Children's Museum of Tacoma has a huge draw. Since it opened about a decade ago, it has offered pay-as-you-will admission and has no plans to change that anytime soon. This means that you can stop off for an hour, without worrying about whether you've gotten your money's worth.

Seattle Children's Museum

This kid-favorite spot is located on the lower level of the Seattle Center Armory building. Long-time museum lovers will notice a new exhibit, a post office where kids can weigh packages and slide behind the driver's seat to make pretend deliveries.

We've all done it before-dropped a box of unwanted household belongings at a flea market and driven off with a sense of accomplishment. But have you ever stopped to think about where those items actually go?

Business journalist Adam Minter began considering this while cleaning out his late mother's home. Seeking reassurance that his mother's donated items would be put to good use rather than destroyed, he started a journey worldwide that resulted in his latest book, "Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale". He found the industry significantly in the dark, with a disturbing lack of data on secondhand goods, despite their crucial role in clothing, furnishing and educating people worldwide. 

In this book, Minter fully reveals himself as an investigative journalist. He doesn't shy away from the commonly-accepted assumptions about the global trade in used goods. First, Minter questions the idea that shipments of secondhand clothes from developed countries to Africa have destroyed local textile industries （纺织业）. That's overly simplistic, he says. He further explains that multiple factors, such as declining cotton production in local areas and economic liberation, have influenced the situation. 

Minter then explores the topic of car seats, making a statement that recycling car seats, instead of selling them secondhand, is wasteful and might compromise （危害） safety for children in developing countries. It is disturbing to say so in a society that prioritizes child safety and highlights zero risk, but when you consider the excessive caution that might endanger children's lives elsewhere, the situation starts to look different. 

Minter calls it "waste colonialism," this idea that developed countries can apply their own safety standards onto the markets of developing countries-and it's deeply wrong. Why label an used car seat or an old TV as unsafe if someone else, with different skills, is perfectly capable of repairing it and willing to use it, especially if they lack access to new products and other options?

The book explores the huge problems of handling surplus （剩余的） items and how producers discourage repairs and promote the sales of new products. Minter calls for initiatives to enhance product repairability and increase product lifetime.