2 of America’s best new restaurants are a short drive from Sacramento, Bon Appétit says
Bon Appétit released its annual list of the United States’ 50 best new restaurants on Thursday, and two of the food magazine’s top choices are a short drive away from Sacramento.
You could take a day trip to Daytrip, a wine bar and fermentation-focused restaurant on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland. Or cross into the city for Good Good Culture Club in San Francisco’s Mission District, which aims to celebrate AAPI heritage through food.
Highlights from Daytrip’s frequently-rotating menu included charred fava beans with candied sesame brittle and white-jasmine ricotta, and hand-cut pasta with honeynut squash miso and kelp pearls. “Every meal feels like a dinner party,” Bon Appétit staff wrote, and tables tend to fill up early.
A sister concept to San Francisco’s Liholiho Yacht Club Restaurant, Good Good Culture Club scored points for its staff-focused ethos, including an equally distributed 20% gratuity charge in lieu of tips. Sticky rice-stuffed chicken wings and sesame-cherry short ribs were among the restaurant’s standout dishes.
“While there’s plenty of space for dinner and drinks in the spacious dining room, the best seat is on the roof, where you’ll eat an assortment of dishes that blend Asian influences while surrounded by lush, swaying greenery,” Bon Appétit staff wrote.
Three Los Angeles restaurants (Filipino fine dining spot Lasita, Quarter Sheets pizzeria and Korean-influenced Yangban Society) also made the list, as did San Diego’s Kingfisher, a modern Vietnamese spot described as “a stunner of a restaurant by any metric.”