Bon Appétit focuses on what's "now" in the world of food, drink, and entertaining, while still giving readers valuable cooking tools, tips, and most of all, recipes. This food lifestyle publication looks at life through the lens of food & cooking in, dining out, travel, entertainment, shopping and design.
The Return of BA’s Best New Restaurants
WHAT I’M LOVING • Seven books that have caught my eye
WELCOME TO PARK MGM LAS VEGAS
Family Meal • We’ve turned some of the great restaurant meals we’ve eaten this year into weeknight warriors
Pork Chops With Frisée-Apple Salad • A honey-infused quick-pickling liquid imbues Fresno chiles with a sweet, briny flavor, and doubles as a dressing for a crisp apple salad
Laotian-Style Chicken and Rice Salad • This hearty salad, typically made by breaking up deep-fried rice balls, gets its texture from crisping cooked grains in a hot skillet
Gyoza and Greens With Chile Butter • In lieu of making spiced dumplings from scratch, this recipe calls for store-bought gyoza drizzled with a piquant chile-spiked butter
Shrimp Pasta With Preserved Lemon • Chefs love pairing the salty brightness of preserved lemon with seafood. Here, the pantry product is the base of a luscious pasta sauce
London Pouring • A natural-wine-soaked tour of Britain’s capital, with nary a pint in sight
Your Thanksgiving problems—solved! • We’ve got genuinely juicy turkey, gravy for procrastinators, pies without the fuss, and so much more…
HEADS OF THE TABLE • THE PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS, and RESTAURANTS BUILDING a BETTER FOOD WORLD
The Educators: Indigenous Food Lab Minneapolis
The Restaurant Redesigners: Contento New York City
The Listeners: Heard San Antonio
The Movement Starter: Cellphone Oakland
The Responders: Sonoma Family Meal Petaluma, California
BEST NEW RESTAURANTS
BABA’S PANTRY Kansas City, MO • It takes a village to open a restaurant—or in this case an entire family
BABA’S TIMELINE • A brief look at the life of Yahia “Baba” Kamal, from growing up in Palestine to opening one of the U.S.’s Best New Restaurants
BOCADILLO MARCKET Chicago • Marrying his Southern heritage with Spanish techniques, chef James Martin’s Chicago kitchen is an ode to both cuisines
CAFE MUTTON Hudson, NY • Welcome to the country’s most uncompromising restaurant
CANJE Austin • A pastry chef gets personal (and savory) at this pan-Caribbean paradise
DAYTRIP Oakland • At this vibrant fermentation-focused wine bar, everyone—from the diners to the staff—gets to be the life of the party
IRWIN’S Philadelphia • A lofty love letter to the island of Sicily
REPÚBLICA Portland, OR • A tasting menu goes deep with six courses of seriously delicious Mexican history
PAIRING IS CARING
SEMMA New York City • Bringing the breadth and depth of South Indian cuisine to New York City
THE PATH TO SEMMA • For chef Vijay Kumar, it all began with rice
SULPERLAND Charlotte, NC • Beneath the vaulted ceilings of a converted church, the Supperland team is hosting a Sunday potluck—and you’re invited
YANGBAN SOCIETY Los Angeles • What do you get when you mix a knockout Korean American restaurant and a kitschy-cute mini-mart? Downtown L.A.’s tastiest new hangout
Home Fry • Fried foods are, in a word, irresistible. Deep-frying food at home is, on the other hand, a little intimidating—but it doesn’t have to be! If there were ever a time to conquer your fear of frying, this is it
Guy Fieri’s Dream Dinner Party • It’s a nonstop, all-day affair