This RI Restaurant Is Among America's Top 50, NYT Ranking Says

RHODE ISLAND — The New York Times recently announced its 50 favorite restaurants in America for 2024, and one from Rhode Island made the cut.

“Over the last 12 months, reporters and editors traveled to nearly every state scouting restaurants for our annual list,” according to the newspaper. “As always, there were no-brainers and tough choices — the United States has a vast, diverse spread of great restaurants these days — but these are our 50 favorites for 2024.”

The restaurant from Rhode Island that made the list was Gift Horse at 272 Westminster St. in Providence.

"On any given night, the shuckers behind the horseshoe bar at Gift Horse are prying open oysters grown in about a dozen spots along the Rhode Island coast," the New York Times wrote. "The quality of the shellfish is impressive, even before you dress them with kimchi mignonette or a few jade-colored drops of hot sauce drawn from fermented green chiles. Sky Haneul Kim, the chef, reworks the traditional New England raw bar using the flavors of South Korea, where she was raised."

Of the 50 restaurants highlighted by the Times, 32 are newly opened.

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