These Are PA’s Best Restaurants, New Ranking Says

PHILADELPHIA - Calling all Pennsylvania foodies!

USA TODAY released a new ranking of the best restaurants in the U.S. on Thursday, and three eateries around the state were named to the ranking. How many have you tried?

From Instagrammable photo op spots to small town classics, here are the honorees:

Doro Bet (4533 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia, Pa.)

Ethiopian fried chicken is the dish to try at this Philadelphia spot, according to the new ranking. The fast-casual eatery also offers fresh shawarma, long-simmered doro wot chicken leg and collards. Foodies with a mild palette can partake in the turmeric-fueled “alicha” fried chicken and collards.

“It’s their fried chicken that made them famous for hundreds of miles: breaded with the nutty pop and crackle of teff and tapioca flours, marinated in buttermilk with earthy-fiery berbere spice mixed by a sister in Ethiopia,” USA TODAY said.

The Speckled Egg Cafe ( 6326 Greenhill Road, New Hope, Pa.)

Only open Tuesdays and Saturdays at Rice’s Market, the New Hope eatery opened in 2021 and offers a rotating menu of breakfast and lunch specials from sticky pork belly congee to tomato eggs Benedict on a zucchini waffle, per the new list.

“The cafe features a regularly changing menu of breakfast and lunch items, showcasing the pair’s creativity at turning locally sourced ingredients into unexpected dishes,” USA TODAY said.

Viet Thai Cafe (2535 E. Market St., York, Pa.)

The decades-old staple Viet Thai Cafe is considered a “pioneer” of Asian fusion cuisine in central Pennsylvania, per the ranking, offerings rang of Vietnamese, Thai and Loa eats and a sushi bar.

"Yorkers tasted Thai food for the first time and kept coming back with the personal touch of the family," USA TODAY said. "Today, in a larger location, daughter Jennifer and Joseph DiMarcello, who started as a dishwasher in 1998 and married into the family, manage the restaurant with Jennifer's brother Francis."