Half a game hen is bejeweled in fried garlic, cooked until it’s pull-apart tender, and served with chrysanthemum salad and either rice or noodles in a light chicken broth. Shaped like a boat and rockin’ with Vietnamese pop hits, The Boat is a playful restaurant offering creative drinks and unparalleled chicken in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. Serena Dai, digital editorial director Bánh Kẹp It’s tiramisu funneled through a funhouse mirror-and just one of several magical dishes you’ll experience at Torrisi. Instead, an oversized martini glass comes packed with vanilla ice cream, mascarpone cream, hot fudge, and espresso granita. One dish I immediately rushed back to eat again was a dessert simply titled “affogato.” A creation of genius pastry chef Stephanie Prida, who has since moved on to esteemed California bakery Manresa Bread, the dessert is absolutely not the traditional espresso-topped ice cream. Despite major sceney vibes-you will want to show up looking hot-the food is creative and surprising and extremely worth setting your Resy alerts for. The restaurant comes from Major Food Group, the behemoth restaurant empire best known for celebrity fave Carbone, but Torrisi is a revival from when the crew was just starting out and Drake (probably) didn’t know they existed.
In 2023, if you want to know what it’s like to be at a downtown New York hotspot, head straight to Torrisi. Whether it was a tower of kakigori studded with little treasures, a grapefruit filled with swirls of luscious frozen yogurt, or a just-set pie covered with fresh fruit, these 10 dishes from new restaurants affirmed that in 2023, skipping dessert was never the move.
Restaurants are finding their groove again, and desserts-I mean the genuinely exciting, glad-we-didn’t-skip ones-are on the upswing. As our team ate across the country this year in search of the Best New Restaurants of 2023, our commitment to sugar paid off. Still, I’ve remained devoted to dessert, and almost always order something sweet to end my meal. In their absence, the range of desserts on offer at a lot of places got notably slimmer, simpler, and less exciting. During the pandemic, as restaurants looked to cut costs and pare down their operations, pastry chefs were often the first to be let go. The past few years haven’t been all sugar and spice for dessert menus. For our list of The 24 Best New Restaurants of 2023, click here. As we look back on a great year of dining, we're celebrating the best dishes and desserts we ate at new restaurants in 2023.
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