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Fall is in full swing — the leaves are turning, football season is peaking, and the holiday dinner conversation has officially started. This batch of 45 new Dinova restaurants includes a Top Chef winner’s four-restaurant empire in Chicago’s Fulton Market, the oldest bar in Colorado (open since 1859), a boba tea shop in Texas kept alive by a family after their founder passed away weeks after opening, and a gourmet hot dog joint in Virginia with over 70 toppings. All of them earn you myDinova points on every visit.

Andreas Prime Steaks & Seafood
TX (2 locations)
Chef Andreas Kotsifos — a Greek native with 40-plus years in kitchens across Europe, Manhattan, and Palm Beach — runs this upscale steakhouse in Allen and Uptown Dallas. The beef Wellington is wrapped in phyllo dough instead of puff pastry, a nod to his Greek roots.

Bar Tutto
Chicago, IL
All-day Italian cafe in Fulton Market from Top Chef winner Joe Flamm and the Day Off Group. Morning espresso through late-night spritzes, with a wood-fired grill and an outdoor patio framed by a one-acre park.

Bayberry Garden
Providence, RI
Creative New England cooking with a sustainable raw bar in Providence’s Innovation District. Sun-drenched dining room full of live plants. Local farmers and fishermen supply the kitchen.

BLVD Steakhouse
Chicago, IL
Old Hollywood glamour in Chicago’s West Loop — Art Deco lines, a Champagne Room, and a retractable-roof Atrium bar. Another Joe Flamm and Day Off Group spot. Prime steaks, raw bar, and happy hour daily.

Bread And Butterfly
Atlanta, GA
European cafe by day — French pastries, croissants, cappuccinos in Atlanta’s Inman Park. At night it shifts to globally inspired dishes rooted in the African Diaspora, from Chef Demetrius Brown and co-owner Brandon Blanchard.

Buffalo Rose
Golden, CO
The oldest bar in Colorado — this spot on Washington Avenue has been the pulse of Golden since 1859. Generals Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan all stayed here. Today it’s a restaurant, live music venue, and event space with a retractable glass roof over the Sky Bar.
Death Of The Fox Brewing Company
Clarksboro, NJ
Craft brewery and coffee microroastery on ground that’s held a tavern for three centuries in Clarksboro, NJ. Established 2014 — first craft brewery in the state to also be a coffeehouse. They roast their own beans and brew beers like Milky Way Latte Porter using their own coffee.
Ethos Greek Bistro
FL (3 locations)
Authentic Greek and Mediterranean inspired by Cretan cooking traditions — three South Florida locations in Coconut Creek, Wilton Manors, and Fort Lauderdale. Founded by George Papachristopoulos with 25-plus years of restaurant experience. Featured on PBS’s Check Please! South Florida.

EYV Restaurant
Pittsburgh, PA
Stands for Eat Your Veggies — a veggie-forward restaurant in Pittsburgh that puts vegetables at the center of every plate. Named one of Pittsburgh’s best new restaurants. Locally sourced from Western PA and Eastern Ohio farms.

Fat Daddy’s Smokehouse and Grill
Eastpoint, FL
Victor Mitchell’s smokehouse on US-98 in Eastpoint, about ten minutes from St. George Island. All beef comes from Jerkins Angus Cattle Farm in Bristol, FL — dry-aged 14 days. Featured on America’s Best Restaurants. Pet-friendly patio with Apalachicola Bay views.

Flair Maison Lounge
New York, NY
Elevated cocktail lounge inside the Hilton Garden Inn near Penn Station — the draw is world-class flair bartending, where the cocktail preparation is the show. Global tapas menu with small plates inspired by flavors from seven continents.
Hands On Gourmet
San Francisco, CA
Not a restaurant — it’s a cooking party venue in SF’s Dogpatch neighborhood. Groups divide into teams, each working with a professional chef to cook a portion of a multi-course meal, then sit down and eat it together. Popular for corporate team-building and private events.

Heritage
Atlanta, GA
Chef Demetrius Brown — Trinidadian and Jamaican roots, Food Network Chopped finalist, Beat Bobby Flay winner — started Heritage as a pop-up during the pandemic. Won Atlanta Magazine’s Best Food Pop-Up, landed on the NYT’s America’s Best Restaurants 2024, and opened the brick-and-mortar in Summerhill. Caribbean and Afro-American fine dining.

High Grounds Lounge
Carneys Point, NJ
The quieter, wellness-focused sibling of High Grounds Coffee Roasters — also part of the Death of the Fox family. Espresso bar, breakfast, lunch, protein shakes, and a rentable wellness center for yoga, breathwork, and sound baths.

Ike’s Love & Sandwiches
(17 locations)
Ike Shehadeh started this as a tiny shop called Ike’s Place in San Francisco in 2007. Dutch Crunch bread and a proprietary ‘Dirty Sauce.’ Each location names sandwiches after local celebrities and icons.

Il Carciofo
Chicago, IL
Roman Italian from Joe Flamm’s Day Off Group in Fulton Market — the name means ‘the artichoke,’ a nod to Rome’s carciofi alla giudia. Handmade pasta from a dedicated Pasta Lab, wood-fired Roman-style pizza, and a big outdoor patio built to feel like a Roman piazza.

Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches
WA (2 locations)
Jimmy John Liautaud started this in 1983 in Charleston, Illinois — his dad gave him a choice after high school: join the military or start a business. Fresh-baked bread, ‘Freaky Fast’ delivery. 2,800-plus locations nationwide.

Joto Sushi
Chicago, IL
Intimate sushi spot tucked inside CH Distillery on West Randolph in the West Loop. ‘Joto’ means highest quality in Japanese. They run three dry-aging machines full-time for their signature dry-aged fish program.

Modan
McLean, VA
Upscale modern Japanese in Tysons Corner — Executive Chef Chico Dator spent 15 years at Nobu before landing here. Omakase, dry-aged fish, robata grill, curated nigiri flights. Jazz nights, sake ceremonies, and taiko drummers.

Patrizia’s
NY
Family-style Italian with recipes dating back over 150 years — wood-fired oven, fresh organic ingredients, and a presence across all five boroughs plus New Jersey, Florida, and Aruba. Each location is individually owned and operated by family members.

Potbelly Sandwich Shop
TX (2 locations)
Started as a Chicago antique shop in the 1970s — the sandwiches outsold the antiques. 425-plus locations now. Bread from the same Turano bakery since day one, toasted at 500 degrees.

Quincy Hall
Minneapolis, MN
Industrial-chic event center in NE Minneapolis’s Arts District — 15,000 square feet, 40-foot vaulted ceilings, outdoor patio with a gas fireplace. Catering by Crave. Weddings, corporate events, drag brunches, and craft fairs. Seats up to 600.

Rose Mary
Chicago, IL
Top Chef winner Joe Flamm’s debut restaurant — Adriatic Italian blending Italian and Croatian cuisine, named for his grandmothers Mary and Mary Rose. Handmade pastas, grilled fish, cevapi. The vibe is inspired by Croatian family-run taverns called konobas.

Urbane Café
CA (2 locations)
Tom Holt founded this in Ventura in 2003 after seeing a gap for a great sandwich spot built around a hearth oven. The signature focaccia is out of the oven for less than 30 minutes before it hits your sandwich. Everything from scratch.

What’s The Tea?
Hutto, TX
Lisa Nguyen — youngest of nine children in a family that came from Vietnam in 1985 — opened this boba tea and Vietnamese snack shop with her sister Diana in late 2025. Lisa passed away just weeks after opening. Today Diana and Lisa’s children keep it going, serving milk teas, banh mi, sticky rice bowls, and Vietnamese desserts.
Staff Pick
Gourmet Sandwiches • Dutch Crunch • SF-Born