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These New England restaurants make NYT best restaurants list of 2024

Four restaurants in the region made the cut.

Somaek
Somaek, a new restaurant from chef Jamie Bissonnette, made the New York Times' top-50 restaurants for 2024. Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe

By Katelyn Umholtz

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The well-traveled food writers at The New York Times have once again put out their list of America’s 50 best restaurants for the year, published this week, with a few New England restaurants able to celebrate some recognition from the paper of record.

It’s a small showing, to be sure, with bigger states earning more restaurant spots than the region combined, and two New England states didn’t even make the cut (again). 

But the four restaurants from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island have commonalities and differences: They’re all newer restaurants, having opened at the earliest in 2020. The restaurants and the people behind them are award-winning, having made other top-restaurant lists and earning James Beard wins or nods. 

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And even though this is New England, the food at these restaurants isn’t just seafood (though there is plenty of seafood on these menus): We’ve got farm-to-table, new American, and Korean, too.

Here’s the full list of New England restaurants among the 50 best eateries, according to the Times.

Connecticut 

The Shipwright’s Daughter: Seafood and American; opened in 2020; 20 E. Main St., Mystic, Conn.

Maine

Inside the Alna Store. Nicole Wolf/Boston Globe

The Alna Store: Farm-to-table; opened in 2022; 2 Dock Rd., Alna, Maine

Massachusetts

A table set with dishes including Ojingeo bokkeum, with stir-fried squid, tteok, peppers, and fish cake, at lower right; Dwaeji bulgogi, with pork bulgogi, peppers, soy, and gochujang, upper right; and Yukhow, with steak tartare, egg yolk, Korean pear, pickled mustard, and gim bugak, top center at Someak, which is part of chef Jamie Bissonnette’s new project on Temple Place, which includes, Somaek, Temple Records, and sushi den Sushi @ Temple Records. Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe

Somaek: Korean; opened in 2024; 11 Temple Place, Boston, Mass.

Rhode Island

A spread at Gift Horse in Providence, which includes smoked fish dip, Sicilian crudo, monkfish toast, scallop crudo. The two cocktails include a classic Gift Horse Martini and a cherry blossom milk punch. Courtesy Catherine Dzilenski

Gift Horse: Korean and seafood; opened in 2023; 272 Westminster St., Providence, Rhode Island

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Katelyn Umholtz covers food and restaurants for Boston.com. Katelyn is also the author of The Dish, a weekly food newsletter.

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