One of the city’s most popular restaurants, Spoon and Stable, is upscale but not stuffy, and exudes a cozy, chic feel.Ĭreated by James Beard award-winning chef/owner Gavin Kaysen, Spoon and Stable is housed in an old horse stable and has a menu reflective of its Midwestern seasonal sensibilities and Kaysen’s French background.
If you are planning to tour famous cities in the United States, surely food is one of your top considerations for the trip. It feels a lot like the place that I live in the sense of how we all feel about it.”Ĭhristensen can’t wait to go back: “Everyone is making this delicious, heartfelt food and I found that to be a consistent vibe across our experiences in Minneapolis.” Wondering which are the best foodie destinations in the USA From San Francisco to New York City, here are fourteen cities you should add to your list. And that feels very, you know, I connect with that. There’s a lot of pride from the people who live there. “It’s one of of those cities that is so uniquely its own. Courtesy The Restaurant ProjectĪshley Christensen, who has a restaurant empire in Raleigh, North Carolina, says she fell in love with Minneapolis during her first visit. Young Joni, pictured here, dishes up wood-fired share plates with ethereal results. (Full disclosure: This author is from Buffalo and can’t argue with it being a sneaky good food city.)Ĭhefs love the food scene in Minneapolis. Geoffrey Zakarian, a chef and owner of restaurants in New York City, Miami and Atlantic City, also praises Birmingham’s growing culinary cred.īuffalo, New York, is another city Zakarian is excited about.įrom The Dapper Goose for perfectly balanced cocktails and small bites that change with the seasons to southern-focused Toutant and Japanese gastropub Dobutsu, Buffalo may well be New York’s second city, but it’s a worthy one at that. Zimmern likens Birmingham’s current rise to recent food trailblazing cities Portland, Oregon, and Portland, Maine. I find Birmingham a very exciting town to eat my way through,” Zimmern says. “There has been a development underneath all the well-known restaurants there that has just bubbled up and exploded. The city has “gone from hot to blazing hot,” he says. Sure, he’s a fan of Miss Myra’s Pit Bar-B-Q and Frank Stitt’s well-regarded spots – Chez Fonfon and Highlands Bar & Grill – but Zimmern insists there’s more to the Southern city than well, its Southern food roots. Man of many hats – restaurateur, television host and food writer to name a few – Andrew Zimmern is super into Birmingham, Alabama.
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