Women have long been doing incredible things in restaurant kitchens. It's time they get credit for it, too.
Newly opened establishments helmed by extraordinary female executive chefs. Our motivation? While women had always been doing incredible things in restaurant kitchens, they hadn't always been getting credit for it, and we wanted to help change that. And with such rapid innovation going on in food (it's almost hard to remember when ramen was what you prepared on dorm-room hot plates), we just wanted to know where, if we're spending our hard-earned money, the great places to go out to eat are. In this, our second installment of the ELLE restaurant guide, we narrowed our list to 15 but kept to our original criteria: new restaurants with a kick-ass woman running the joint.
Forward-Thinking Cuisine: One restaurant in this year's collection has a menu inspired by a letter written by Mark Twain; another crowd-sources ideas for its specials on Facebook.
Great Scene: Hot guys, cool girls, authenticity. The kind of place where you could people-watch for hours.
Instagram-Inspiring Presentation: Whether it's 22-foot reclaimed-wood ceilings in the dining room (see: Seattle's Chop Shop) or a dollop of whipped cream on a stack of pancakes swirled just so (Chicago's Johnny's Grill), there's an element in each of our picks too visually stunning to keep to yourself.
And above all else, the food has to be really, really good. Yeah, there's that. And, now, without further ado, the listings...
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