Best Restaurants 2016

The year’s best bite transports even the most jaded traveler to Spain’s colorful southern coast, home of sherry, flamenco music, and bullfighting.

Shareable entrÉes have come a long way. As we ate our way around town we couldn’t help but notice more menus embracing food for two, or even a crew.

It's time to collectively update our etiquette manuals.

“Every time you eat octopus, you taste the ocean.”

Randy Sebastian’s chocolate soufflé at Boca blew the collective Dine Team mind.

Often the best seat in the house is at the bar.

Enough already with Shishito peppers.

Cozy, off the beaten path, and with a menu touched with a lovable Southern drawl, right down to the bourbon-centric cocktails, Bouquet verily announces “Come on back, y’all.”

Tucked into a strip mall straddling Madisonville and Oakley are some of the most authentic Oaxacan flavors around.

Cristian Pietoso’s second restaurant has all the bones of an upscale eatery, but the menu is infused with enough Italian soul to make nonna proud.