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Ariete: Miami's #1 This Week
Ariete holds the #1 spot in Miami this week with 5,971 new diners and a stable ranking trajectory.
July 15, 2026
Michelin Stars Are Falling 3-to-1 and the Gap Is Widening
The star isn't shining as bright right now. This week, 98 Michelin-starred restaurants dropped in our rankings. Only 34 moved up. That's nearly a 3-to-1 ratio of fallers to climbers at the most decora
July 13, 2026
Fine Dining Is Winning the Week While the Middle Gets Squeezed
The high end is having a week. Across 354 restaurants in the $$$$ tier, average rank movement sits at +2.0 spots. That might sound modest until you zoom out: the $$ tier (1,304 restaurants, the bigges
July 10, 2026
Frasca Food and Wine: Denver's #1 This Week
Frasca Food and Wine holds the #1 spot in Denver this week with 6,276 new diners and a shifting ranking trajectory.
July 8, 2026
Elway's Just Climbed 7 Spots and Is Gunning for Top 10
[Elway's](https://www.hotrestaurantlist.com/restaurant/elways-denver) is sitting at #18 in Denver right now. Up 7 spots in a single week. At this pace, they're a top-10 restaurant by next Monday. Mark
July 6, 2026
57% of Restaurants Just Had a Losing Week
Three out of every five restaurants on this list dropped this week. Let that land. Across [27 cities and 2,700 restaurants](https://www.hotrestaurantlist.com/ranking), 514 moved up, 1,548 moved down,
July 3, 2026
Poole's Diner: Raleigh-Durham's #1 This Week
Poole's Diner holds the #1 spot in Raleigh-Durham this week with 6,268 new diners and a stable ranking trajectory.
July 1, 2026
Michelin Stars Keep Falling While a Different Tier Rises
Fine dining is having another rough week. Of the Michelin-starred restaurants tracked across our 27 cities, 96 moved down and only 34 moved up. That's nearly a 3-to-1 ratio, and it's not a new story.
June 29, 2026
Michelin Stars Are Falling 3-to-1 and It's Getting Hard to Ignore
Fine dining is having a rough week. Of the Michelin-starred restaurants tracked across our 27 cities, 96 moved down and only 34 moved up. That's nearly a 3-to-1 ratio of decline. If you've been watchi
June 26, 2026
Alinea: Chicago's #1 This Week
Alinea holds the #1 spot in Chicago this week with 1,961 new diners and a stable ranking trajectory.
June 24, 2026
Cajun and Creole Are Falling Again and It's Not a Blip
The bayou has gone quiet. For the second time in recent weeks, Cajun and Creole restaurants are sliding across our tracked cities. average drop of 7.0 spots across three restaurants this week. [We cov
June 22, 2026
Cajun and Creole Just Had Their Worst Week in the Data
The bayou is cooling off. Cajun/Creole restaurants dropped an average of 7.0 spots this week across our tracked cities, making it the clearest decliner in the national data. That's not a blip. That's
June 19, 2026
Commander's Palace: New Orleans's #1 This Week
Commander's Palace holds the #1 spot in New Orleans this week with 6,332 new diners and a stable ranking trajectory.
June 17, 2026
Tratto Just Cracked Phoenix's Top 10
Breaking into a city's top 10 is hard. Across 27 cities and thousands of tracked restaurants, it happens a handful of times a week at most. This week, [Tratto](https://www.hotrestaurantlist.com/restau
June 15, 2026
Michelin Stars Are Losing Momentum and the Data Is Clear
The numbers at the top of American fine dining are flashing something worth paying attention to. This week, 96 Michelin-starred restaurants dropped in the rankings. Only 34 moved up. That's a 2.8-to-1
June 12, 2026
Canlis: Seattle's #1 This Week
Canlis holds the #1 spot in Seattle this week with 4,587 new diners and a stable ranking trajectory.
June 10, 2026
Proof Canteen Just Made the Biggest Single-Week Jump in the Country
[Proof Canteen](https://www.hotrestaurantlist.com/restaurant/proof-canteen-phoenix) just jumped 8 spots to land at #77 in Phoenix. That's the biggest single-week climb on the entire list this week, ac
June 8, 2026
Cajun/Creole Is Falling Again and It's Telling Us Something
Cajun/Creole is still bleeding. Last week we watched the numbers slip. [This week they slipped harder.](https://www.hotrestaurantlist.com/blog/2026-05-29-cajun-creole-dropped-7-spots-per-restaurant-th
June 5, 2026
Le Bernardin: New York's #1 This Week
Le Bernardin holds the #1 spot in New York this week with 6,732 new diners and a stable ranking trajectory.
June 3, 2026
Elway's Just Jumped 7 Spots and Has Top-10 Written All Over It
Mark your calendars. [Elway's](https://www.hotrestaurantlist.com/restaurant/elways-denver) is on a tear, and the Denver steakhouse just gave us the most compelling story in this week's data. They clim
June 1, 2026
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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