Restaurants & Bars
Alameda Eatery A Best New Restaurant In America Pick: List
14 restaurants from coast-to-coast were chosen. Have you tried this super-popular spot?
ALAMEDA, CA — If you love dining out, you can eat at one of the best new restaurants in America without ever leaving the island, according to Eater, which selected 14 honorees for this year's "Eater’s Best New Restaurants in America in 2024" list. The only Bay Area restaurant to make the cut is Alameda’s Fikscue.
From Seattle to Brooklyn, Los Angeles to New Orleans — these sensational restaurants all opened their doors between September 2023 and September 2024. Eater praised them for providing "meals that felt exciting, confident, and joyful."
So why Fikscue, out of all the restaurants that opened this year? "Indonesian cooking and Texas-style halal barbecue converge in the modest shop, where self-taught pitmaster Fik Saleh cuts slices of tender, wobbly brisket for customers after a 21-hour process of trimming, seasoning, and smoking."
In addition to beef brisket, there’s smoked chicken, and beef sausages peppered with flecks of pickled jalapeño and pepper jack cheese.
If your mouth is watering for Indonesian flavors, "Reka Saleh steers the Indonesian comfort food offerings, like a brisket-laden rendang curry with kale; nasi goreng, or Indonesian fried rice, flavored with kecap manis and corned beef; and warming North Sumatran beef noodle soup, soto padang, that shakes up the well-worn barbecue genre and moves it out of its usual lane."
The restaurant is at 1708 Park Street, in Alameda. Check out the Fikscue menu as you wait to be served. Eater warns of wait times of up to two hours.
And what about the other 13 restaurants chosen by Eater? "This year’s list of the country’s best new restaurants is the result of a collection of restaurant folk — including chefs, hosts, line cooks, and servers — who are doing exactly what they want to be doing, because hell, it’s now or never."
See the full list on Eater.
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