Across the country, restaurants are backing up the stories behind their food, whether it’s barbecue in Vermont, French food in Connecticut and North Carolina, or the deep southern roots of Husk in Nashville...

Whiskey plays an important role in two of Seattle’s trendiest restaurants, and others offer the sorts of Mediterranean-inspired small plates that are best eaten with a drink in hand. More on trending restaurants around the country >>

Arepas, tacos, pizza and other handheld food — including tendon puffs — are being munched on at hot Bay Area restaurants, many of which are also providing creative drinks to go with the snackable dishes...

Betony is an unabashed fine-dining restaurant, but it and its more casual counterparts turning heads this season are doing so for distinctive cuisine — although having great cocktails helps, too...

Of course there’s tuna tartare also — this is Miami — but the city’s trendy restaurants are looking to Italy and southern France for inspiration this season. More on trending restaurants around the country >>

Curtis Stone might be offering monthly changing ingredient-themed menus at Maude, and Roy Choi’s exercising his whimsy with canned meat at Pot, but the food at Los Angeles’s trendy restaurants this season nonetheless blend classic...

Straightforward Italian food and good southern cooking are attracting Houstonians this season, but so is a sophisticated new Korean restaurant. More on trending restaurants around the country >>

Duck poutine, lamb ragù, venison tartare and skate with rhubarb grace the menus of Dallas’s trendy restaurants this season as their chefs bring new sophistication to casual settings...

Would your customers take to a peanut agrodolce? Would they order a butter tasting or hickory ice cream? Nation’s Restaurant News’ inaugural class of National Tables — popular restaurants from outside of our 10 regularly featured...