MA Spot Among Top 25 New Restaurants In America, Food Writers Say

This isn't a typical "best of" ranking based on diner reviews.

By Joseph Hosey, Patch Staff

Nov 11, 2026 9:47 AM EST

Food writers are "infatuated" with a Massachusetts restaurant.

Let us explain. The Infatuation, a national restaurant review website known for its opinionated dining guides and recommendations, named Liars to its list of America's Best New Restaurants Of 2026 released this week.

This isn't a typical "best of" ranking based on diner reviews.

"According to our back-of-the-cocktail-napkin math, our team ate at more than 2,600 new restaurants across the country this year," The Infatuation said. "After weeks of debate and nights spent obsessing over details like utensil drawers and ham carts, we've narrowed that number down to 25."

The sections are "places that made us feel something that we couldn't stop talking about," the site said.

The moment the food writers knew they loved Liars was when they "bit into the pecan fiddlehead bar mix and realized corn nuts were dead to us."

" Liars is a neighborhood bistro from the people behind Spoke Wine Bar focused on rare spirits and unique spins on global drinking food," The Infatuation said. "At a moment when many Boston openings are from big restaurant groups that pour money into super-luxe design while treating the food as an afterthought, it's downright refreshing to go into a place where an owner walks you to your table with paint under their fingernails and gives you a menu with things like elk lettuce wraps and tuna meatballs. "

The restaurants are found in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Washington.

"They include a place with an entire menu of steak frites, a date night spot in a Central California strip mall, an all-day café in cattle country, and a tasting menu on the non-billionaire side of Palm Beach County," The Infatuation said. "Regardless of where they fall on the walk-in-only-to-white-tablecloth spectrum, we'd recommend them to pretty much anyone."