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2026 National Eater Award Winners Mapped
2026 Eater Award winners across the U.S. highlighted in a map of best new restaurants, bakeries, and bars.
In brief
2026 Eater Award winners across the U.S. highlighted in a map of best new restaurants, bakeries, and bars. 2026 Eater Award winners include Maroon in Las Vegas, The Pastry Project in Seattle, and OK Chicken & Khao Soi in Portland. Originally reported by Eater.
2026 Eater Awards Overview
The 2026 Eater Awards, presented by Capital One, now in their 17th year, capture the breadth of dining in the U.S.
The Pastry Project
One of Eater’s 2026 Best New Bakeries offers training to people facing barriers to employment in Pioneer Square.
OK Chicken & Khao Soi
Occupying the former SE Division home of a different well-known Northern Thai-influenced restaurant, OK Chicken & Khao Soi was Portland’s biggest opening of the year.
Cassis
An Eater 2026 Best New Restaurant with a nearly 200-seat dining room in Milwaukee.
Culebra Chicago
A 2026 Best New Restaurant in Chicago with creative dishes like West Indies crab salad with butter crackers.
Bad Butter Chicago
A 2026 Best New Restaurant in Chicago known for seafood priced at $65 per person.
Creepies Chicago
A 2026 Best New Restaurant in Chicago with a focus on seafood and a liquor license.
All Well Chicago
A 2026 Best New Restaurant in Chicago with dishes like collard green barbajuan with burnt lemon.
Rosy Cleveland
A 2026 Best New Restaurant in Cleveland with Filipino food dishes like bagoong and sinigang.
Somssi New York
A 2026 Best New Restaurant in New York with dishes like ceviche Acapulqueño and duck carnitas enmoladas.
Echo Lake Brooklyn
A 2026 Best New Restaurant in Brooklyn with dishes like West Indies crab salad with butter crackers.
Diljān Brooklyn
A 2026 Best New Restaurant in Brooklyn with creative dishes like West Indies crab salad with butter crackers.
In short
2026 Eater Award winners include Maroon in Las Vegas, The Pastry Project in Seattle, and OK Chicken & Khao Soi in Portland.
