Cajun/Creole Dropped 7 Spots Per Restaurant This Week
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Cajun/Creole Dropped 7 Spots Per Restaurant This Week
Cajun/Creole is getting cold. Not cold like a trend that peaked two years ago and quietly faded. Cold like you ordered the étouffée and someone turned off the heat mid-cook. Across our 27-city dataset
May 29, 2026
Kann: Portland's #1 This Week
Kann holds the #1 spot in Portland this week with 4,968 new diners and a stable ranking trajectory.
May 27, 2026
Portuguese Food Is Taking Over and Honolulu Is Leading the Way
Three Atlanta restaurants dropped 9 spots each in a single week. Same city, same number, same week. That's not a coincidence. That's a signal.
May 25, 2026
Friday Heat Check: Portuguese Is Hot, Cajun Is Not, Go Splurge
Three out of every four restaurants on our lists lost ground this week. Not a quarter. Not half. Three out of four.
May 22, 2026
Nick & Toni's: Hamptons's #1 This Week
Nick & Toni's holds the #1 spot in Hamptons this week with 5,510 new diners and a stable ranking trajectory.
May 20, 2026
Why Honolulu Is Eating Portuguese Food and Loving Every Bite
Nearly three times as many restaurants fell this week as rose. Let that land for a second. Across [all 27 cities we track](https://www.hotrestaurantlist.com/ranking), 1,548 restaurants lost ground, 51
May 18, 2026
Friday Heat Check: Portuguese Is Hot, Cajun Is Not, Go to Honolulu
Three out of every four restaurants on our list lost ground this week. Not three out of ten. Three out of four.
May 15, 2026
Bestia: Los Angeles's #1 This Week
Bestia holds the #1 spot in Los Angeles this week with 4,040 new diners and a stable ranking trajectory.
May 13, 2026
Why Honolulu Is Eating Portuguese Food Right Now
Three Atlanta restaurants dropped nine spots each in a single week. At the same time. That doesn't happen by accident.
May 11, 2026
Friday Heat Check: Piri Piri Is Hot, Cajun Is Not
Cajun is dying. Not slowly. Not gracefully. This is the third consecutive week it has shown up in our Cooldown section, and this week it dropped an average of 7.0 spots across three restaurants. That
May 8, 2026
Why Honolulu Is Eating Portuguese Food and Loving Every Bite
Nearly three out of every four restaurants on our list dropped this week. Let that sink in. Of the 2,700 restaurants we track across [27 cities](https://www.hotrestaurantlist.com/ranking), 1,548 fell,
May 4, 2026
Friday Heat Check: Lisbon Wins, Cajun Loses, and Luxury Is Back
Three out of every four restaurants on our list lost ground this week. Not in one city. Not in one cuisine. Across all 27 cities, in every price tier, at every level of prestige. The gravity was nearl
May 1, 2026
Addison: San Diego's #1 This Week
Addison holds the #1 spot in San Diego this week with 3,145 new diners and a stable ranking trajectory.
April 29, 2026
Portuguese Food Is Taking Over and Honolulu Is Leading the Way
Michelin stars fell apart this week. Not a little. [A lot.](https://guide.michelin.com) Of the 130 Michelin-starred restaurants that moved in our rankings, 96 went down and only 34 went up. That's a 7
April 27, 2026
Friday Heat Check: Portuguese Is Hot, Cajun Is Not, Go to Honolulu
Three out of every four restaurants on our national list lost ground this week. Let that sink in. In a dataset covering 27 cities and more than 2,700 restaurants, the crowd moved in one direction: dow
April 24, 2026
Pizzeria Bianco: Phoenix's #1 This Week
Pizzeria Bianco holds the #1 spot in Phoenix this week with 6,457 new diners and a shifting ranking trajectory.
April 22, 2026
Why Honolulu Is Eating Portuguese Food Right Now
Nearly three times as many restaurants fell in the rankings this week as climbed. Think about that. [Across our full rankings](https://www.hotrestaurantlist.com/ranking), 514 restaurants moved up, 638
April 20, 2026
Friday Heat Check: Portuguese Is Hot, Cajun Is Not, Go to Honolulu
Three out of every four restaurants on our lists dropped this week. Let that sink in.
April 17, 2026
Staplehouse: Atlanta's #1 This Week
Staplehouse holds the #1 spot in Atlanta this week with 5,476 new diners and a stable ranking trajectory.
April 15, 2026
Portuguese Food Is Taking Over and Honolulu Is Leading the Way
Something is rotten in Michelin-land. This week, 96 Michelin-starred restaurants dropped in the rankings. Only 34 moved up. That's nearly a 3-to-1 ratio of falling stars, and it's the kind of signal t
April 13, 2026
Friday Heat Check: Piri Piri Is Hot, Cajun Is Not
Three out of every four restaurants on our national list lost ground this week. Let that sink in.
April 10, 2026
Joel Robuchon: Las Vegas's #1 This Week
Joel Robuchon holds the
April 9, 2026
Portuguese Food Is Taking Over and Madre + Mason Saw It Coming
It was a rough week to be a restaurant. Across our 21 cities, 1,459 restaurants dropped in the rankings while only 436 climbed. That's not a correction. That's a shakeout. But buried inside all that t
April 7, 2026
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April 7, 2026