These two NYC spots were just named the best new restaurants in the world

Once again, when it comes to the best of the world, you don’t have to travel far if you already live in NYC.  

Yesterday, the award-winning travel magazine and website Condé Nast Traveller released its 2025 Hot List. The annual series calls out the best new things all around the world, encompassing newly minted hotels, places to stay and more. As for what’s shiny and sparkling in food, two new-ish New York restaurants caught the eye of the publication, both receiving a spot on the list. 

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Ranked in no particular order, chef Vikas Khanna’s Bungalow made the list. Cited for being one of the hottest tables in 2024, the East Village restaurant received its dues for its unapologetic celebration of Indian culture and food. Global Digital Director at Condé Nast Traveller Arati Menon called out its “melt-in-your-mouth dahi kebabs with a seviyan (vermicelli) crust” and its “Goan shrimp balchão served in cones reminiscent of the 'cream rolls' at traditional Indian bakeries.” It seems we agree with CN Traveller, as Bungalow also made our best new restaurants list last year. 

The Upper East Side’s second act of Le Veau d'Or also topped the survey. According to writer Kyle Beechey, the revival of the 1937 restaurant led by Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson (of Frenchette, Le Rock and Frenchette Bakery) received the honor for its classic menu of French fare, “executed with a precision that even some of Paris’s best restaurants fail to command.” Beechey went on to call the pommes souffleés “magical” and the martini as “pitch-perfect,” finishing with the sentiment: “In a city obsessed with the new, it’s refreshing to be transported to a glorious past.”

Here is the full list of best new restaurants in the world, according to Condé Nast Traveller: 

• 19 Saint Roch, Paris
• Acamaya, New Orleans
• AngloThai, London
• Arami, La Paz, Bolivia
• Clandestina, São Paulo
• Clara, Quito, Ecuador
• Saint Peter at the Grand National, Sydney
• Banng, Delhi NCR, India
• Bar Vitrine, Copenhagen
• Bungalow, New York City
• Caleña, Ávila, Spain
• Ciel Dining, Ho Chi Minh City
• Dōgon by Kwame Onwuachi, Washington DC
• Esperit Roca, Girona, Spain
• Il Carciofo, Chicago
• Jan Franschoek, Franschoek, South Africa
• Jee, Hong Kong
• Kaia, Boston
• La Tapa del Coco, Panama City
• Le Veau d’Or, New York City
• Mr Panther, Lagos, Nigeria
• Notori, Mount Fuji, Japan
• OpenHouse, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Osip, Bruton, UK
• Rua Kigali, Kigali, Rwanda
• Somma, Singapore
• Stüvetta, St Moritz, Switzerland
• Sufret Maryam, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Supernormal, Brisbane, Australia
• Terrāi, Hyderabad, India
• Vinai, Minneapolis
• Voraz, Mexico City
• Sunny’s, Miami