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These New England restaurants serve 4 of the best dishes in the U.S., according to NYT
They are in Rhode Island, Maine, and Connecticut.
Four New England restaurants are dishing up delights that have impressed The New York Times.
The publication released a list of the 26 best dishes we ate across the U.S. in 2024 and included tonnarelli with green garlic and Narragansett clams at Giusto in Newport, R.I.; Tuna de Tigre at Mr. Tuna in Portland, Maine; the mushroom breakfast taco at Ocotillo in Portland, Maine; and the beef empanadas at The Port of Call in Mystic, Conn.
The publication’s writers ate in hundreds of restaurants across 30 states over the course of the year to determine its picks and says “these are the bites from 2024 that will linger in our minds well into the new year.”
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About Giusto’s tonnarelli with green garlic and Narragansett clams, The New York Times wrote that the tonnarelli, made in-house daily, “is springy, and the tiny local clams are poached until just tender.” The dish is best enjoyed during the warmer months from the restaurant’s deck overlooking Newport Harbor, the publication noted.
Diners who order the Tuna de Tigre at Mr. Tuna (listed on the menu under “Dressed Up Sashimi”) discover that “the cubes of ruby fish are decked out in a tangy-sweet sauce of puréed coconut, lime juice, fish sauce and chiles, and crowned with a tangle of crunchy, golden shallots,” wrote the publication.
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The mushroom breakfast taco at Ocotillo has a memorable sauce: the housemade salsa macha, which The New York Times describes as “a brick-red drizzle exploding with toasted chiles, nuts and seeds, and sweetened with roasted garlic — the kind of haunting sauce you’ll want to slather on everything.”
Finally, about the beef empanadas at The Port of Call, the publication wrote that Chef Reneé Touponce’s beef renditions “are at once definitive and idiosyncratic — from the tender homemade crust to the ground beef from nearby Beriah Lewis Farm, juicy with sofrito, olives and American cheese.”
Check out the full NYT list of the 26 best dishes across the U.S. in 2024.
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