Bon Appetit magazine just released their
50 nominees for best new restaurant in 2014:
Acorn (Denver, CO)
Arden & Harlow (Cambridge, MA)
Birch (Providence, RI)
Blackbrick Chinese (Miami, FL)
CBD Provisions (Dallas, TX)
Central Provisions (Portland, ME)
Coltivare (Houston, TX)
Cured (San Antonio, TX)
Davenport (Portland, OR)
Eat the Rich/Mockingbird Hill/Southern Efficiency (Washington, DC)
Edmund's Oast (Charleston, SC)
El Camino (Louisville, KY)
Estela (New York City, NY)
Expatriate (Portland, OR)
Grand Central Market (Los Angeles, CA)
Gunshow (Atlanta, GA)
High Street on Market (Philadelphia, PA)
Hot Joy (San Antonio, TX)
Kin Khao (San Francisco, CA)
London Plane (Seattle, WA)
Luksus (New York City, NY)
Lusca (Atlanta, GA)
Maurice (Portland, OR)
MoPho (New Orleans, LA)
Mott Street (Chicago, IL)
Nico Osteria (Chicago, IL)
Night Market Song (Los Angeles, CA)
Novel (Kansas City, MO)
Odd Duck (Austin, TX)
Orsa & Winston (Los Angeles, CA)
Palace Diner (Biddeford, ME)
The Pig and the Lady (Honolulu, HI)
Q (Los Angeles, CA)
Qui (Austin, TX)
Rhubarb (Asheville, NC)
Ribelle (Brookline, MA)
Row 34 (Boston, MA)
Rose's Luxury (Washington, DC)
Rose's Meat Market and Sewet Shop (Durham, NC)
Sarma (Somerville, MA)
Serpico (Philadelphia, PA)
Sir and Star (Olema, CA)
Sobban (Decatur, GA)
Sushi Nakazawa (New York City, NY)
Thai-Kun (Austin, TX)
Tosca (San Francisco, CA)
Travail and the Rookery (Robbinsdale, MN)
Trois Mec (Los Angeles, CA)
Uncle Boon's (New York City, NY)
Westward and Little Gull (Seattle, WA)
I'll leave it to you guys to parse out any kind meaning or ranking from that list.