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North America’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2026 Will Be Announced Tonight

North America’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2026 Will Be Announced Tonight

The Atomix team wins No. 1 at the 2025 North America’s 50 Best Restaurants ceremony. | Mike Kirschbaum/The World’s 50 Best Restaurants The 2026 edition of the North America’s 50 Best Restaurants list will be announced live tonight at an awards ceremony in New Orleans, where the best chefs from across the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean will gather to compete and celebrate. The event is produced by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants organization, which also produces lists for Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa region. You can watch the live stream of the announcement ceremony, which begins at 8 p.m. Central, here. Last year, in the inaugural edition of the list, Atomix in New York was named the No. 1 restaurant in the region, while Mon Lapin in Montreal earned the No. 2 spot and Restaurant Pearl Morissette in Jordan Station, Canada, came in third. The top ranked Caribbean restaurant was Buzo Osteria Italiana in Barbados, which clocked in at 41. It seems safe to anticipate the top of the list will look pretty similar this year (especially since No. 1 winners can repeat in the top spot, under the organization’s rules), although there are sure to be some shakeups. Kabawa, one of Eater’s Best New Restaurants in 2025, didn’t make the 50 Best list last year despite a slew of accolades, and based on early indications, that could change this time around. Also, in 2025, all five North American restaurants that appeared on the World’s 50 Best List reappeared in the North America list later that year; that cheat code isn’t available this year, since the regional list will be announced before the official reveal of the World’s 50 Best list, which will take place in November in Abu Dhabi. We’ll update this story with the winners as they’re announced this evening, so stay tuned. Eater’s coverage of the North America’s 50 Best Restaurants event was produced with assistance from the World’s 50 Best organization. All editorial content is produced independently. Re

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I Tried Erewhon’s New $15,000-a-Year VIP Membership for a Month

The hot bar is one of the easiest places to spend big at Erewhon. | Hilary Pollack When I have friends visiting Los Angeles and I ask where they’d like to eat, of all the incredible restaurants that the city has to offer — old Hollywood steakhouses, elite sushi counters, taco trucks, bustling Korean barbecue spots — there’s one place that always comes up these days: Erewhon. Best known as a wonderland of intriguing specialty products with prices that feel like performance art — $24 coconut yogurt, $75 matcha, $18 bottles of camel milk — the health-focused grocery store opened in LA in 1969. But in 2011, it fell under new ownership that rebranded it as an ultra-premium food destination rather than a hippie-food depot, and in 2022, all hell broke loose when Hailey Bieber’s $21 strawberry smoothie debuted and became an instant phenomenon, bringing national, even global attention to the once-lowkey chain. New Erewhon locations opened one after another in Silver Lake, Culver City, Beverly Hills, Pasadena, West Hollywood, and Studio City, with several more planned for the future. Its reputation is now both aspirational and polarizing; it’s known for its elaborate Tonic Bar beverages (including a never-ending series of celeb collabs), upscale hot bar, high concentration of influencers, and adherence to a particular mushroom-supplement vision of West Coast wellness. Despite becoming more and more omnipresent, the store seems to show no signs of waning interest from the public. I’m consistently fascinated by how many people in LA can afford to make the high-price-point chain their everyday grocer. A friend once casually told me she spends $2,500 at Erewhon every month. “On what?!” I asked, incredulous. “Oh, you know — food, my supplements,” she replied nonchalantly, as though spending $30,000 annually on groceries as a childless adult was perfectly normal. That exchange should perhaps have been a canary in the coal mine for what came next: the elite membership tiers that Ere

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