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Ever since Molly and Tom Broder opened their “pasta bar” in 1994, the crowds have never stopped coming. Why? Easy: the pasta is absolutely astounding. Nearly 20 pastas and risottos are on the menu, ranging from risotto with smoked mozzarella and mushroom ragu to paccheri with braised short rib, gnocchi with duck cacciatore and stringozzi with lobster and roasted squash.

Chef Anna Klinger and husband Emiliano Coppa opened the Venetian-inspired Al di Là on Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue in 1998, at a time when most Manhattanites weren't especially interested in heading into Brooklyn for dinner. But by the time then-New York Times critic Frank Bruni gave the trattoria two stars in 2006, it was widely regarded as the neighborhood’s best restaurant, and helped to transform the dining scene on the now-thriving avenue. Klinger’s menu of home-style appetizers, pastas and braised and grilled meats rarely changes, but that's fine with us. Try the tagliatelle al ragu and charcoal-grilled young chicken.

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At this venture from Major Food Group, the pastas thrill. Consider the linguine vongole, the tortellini al ragu and a fantastic spicy rigatoni vodka. The lobster fra diavolo, pork chop and peppers and cherry pepper ribs are masterfully prepared. Carbone takes seriously the task of upscaling Italian-American classics like chicken scarpariello and veal parmigiana. Carbone has of charm thanks to its massive menus, tile floors and waiters in burgundy tuxedos, making it one of the best old-school restaurants in America.

Chef-owner Ken Vedrinski, a 2011 James Beard Award nominee, changes his menu often based on what he finds at the farmers market and what local fishermen bring to his kitchen. Pastas are handmade, cheese and salumi are imported from Italy.

In business since 1968, Giovanni’s is full of old-school, red-sauce-infused charm. Many of the recipes here date back to the early days, when owner Frances Cannarsa Truant (her father’s name was Giovanni) worked with the original chef to replicate the flavors of her family’s native San Marino. The menu here is about as classic as it gets — fried calamari, minestrone, linguine with clams, fettuccine Bolognese, meat lasagna, chicken piccata or Marsala, beef braciole, eggplant parmigiana — with all breads, pastas and sauces made in-house.

Pasquale "Patsy" Lancieri opened Patsy's in Easy Harlem in 1933, and it's still serving pizzas that are essentially perfect in a classic old-school dining room. The pizza here is light enough that you can easily eat three or four slices in a sitting, and you’ll want to because of its slight smokiness from the coal, perfect topping distribution, high-quality ingredients and addictively crisp crust. It’s a spectacular pizza, from one of America’s greatest old-school pizzerias.

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Leaf peeping is the perfect socially distanced fall activity.Call it the Kanc, if you want to sound like a local, and drive its 35 miles, starting in Lincoln, through the White Mountain National Forest in late September/early October. Be sure to stop at the C.L. Graham Overlook just below the summit of Kancamagus Pass, then picnic at Sabbaday Falls in Conway, a half-mile walk from the trail head that ends in a waterfall, before heading north to Bretton Woods on 302. There, you’ll be treated to blazing views of Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeast.

Mathieu Palombino’s Neapolitan-style pies have become so beloved in New York that he’s since opened two additional New York locations, five in Asia and one in Dubai. In New York, Motorino serves 15 impressive pies, including one with cremini mushrooms, fior di latte cheese, sweet sausage and garlic, another with cherrystone clams, and one with stracciatella cheese and Gaeta olives. But don't be afraid to order the Brussels sprout pie, in which the vegetable is joined by fior di latte, garlic, pecorino, smoked pancetta and olive oil, and gets pleasingly charred. Don't miss the special seasonal ramp pie in the spring; it’s one of the best pizzas you’ll find anywhere.

St. Louis has plenty of great Italian restaurants, but Trattoria Marcella is in a league of its own. Founded by Steve and Jamie Komorek in 1995, the restaurant serves impressive takes on traditional Italian fare like chicken and asparagus risotto, homemade spaghetti and meatballs, beef tenderloin with Barolo roasted garlic sauce and veal Marsala. Most impressively of all, nothing on the menu costs more than $24.

This San Francisco restaurant, which opened in 2009, uses Northern California ingredients to turn out pizzas and housemade pastas inspired by the regional cooking traditions of Italy. The menu changes daily based on what’s in-season, but you can expect thoughtful dishes like veal carpaccio with maitake conserva, pizza topped with pork sausage and mustard greens, black garlic and squash tortellini, beet and duck fattisu with apple mostarda and a large-format dish like veal Milanese with smoked potatoes.

Chef Fabio Trabocchi and his upscale D.C. restaurant Fiola have won countless accolades (including a 2020 Michelin star), and all you need to do is look at the menu to see why. It changes daily based on what’s fresh and in-season. Sample menu items include tuna crudo with caviar and red king prawn, hand-cut tagliatelle with foraged mushrooms, and charcoal-grilled venison with braised endive and preserved huckleberry. Can’t decide what to order? Opt for one of the tasting menus.

Opened in Coney Island way back in 1924 and still going strong, Totonno’s represents a bridge between the traditional Old World Neapolitan style and today's traditional New York slices. And with coal-blistered edges, spotty mozzarella and a red sauce, the pies served here are works of art. With black-and-white tile floors and tin ceilings, the place itself is a time capsule as well. Approaching 100 years old and still going strong, it’s one of America’s oldest restaurants.

Osteria is a big, lively place where the pizzas are terrific (try the one topped with egg, Bitto cheese and garlic) and the cooking is homey but first-rate, with items like candele with wild boar bolognese, wood-fired chicken with delicata squash and a 32-ounce fiorentina rib-eye for two. Warm and inviting, Osteria has racked up countless accolades since opening in 2007, including a 2010 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic for its chef, Jeff Michaud.

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Il Posto chef and owner Andrea Frizzi, originally from Milan, incorporates local ingredients and imported Italian ingredients into a menu of inspired fare. You should start with lobster gnocchi with fennel cream or a luscious corn and speck risotto. Then move on to an entree of duck breast with squash flan and Robiola. Pork belly with parsnip and milk-apple glaze is another intriguing option.

The pizzas at this legendary Phoenix restaurant catapulted chef Chris Bianco to pizza stardom, largely because the pizzas here are about as good as it gets. Try the Rosa, with red onions, rosemary and pistachios, but if it's your first visit, the signature Margherita, with its simple tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella and basil, is the one to try.

Legendary Chicago chef/restaurateur Paul Kahan may be gone from Nico Osteria, but it’s still one of the best restaurants for Italian-inspired seafood in the country. Standouts from the menu include hamachi with eggplant caponata and dark chocolate, grilled fish collar with red onion agrodolce, lobster amatriciana and a whole grilled spice-rubbed branzino.

2008 Best Chef: Northwest James Beard Award winner Holly Smith’s neighborhood eatery Cafe Juanita focuses on Northern Italian cuisine elevated to fine-dining heights. The menu changes frequently, but there’s always an emphasis on local produce, meats and seafood as well as high-end imported Italian ingredients. Alaskan king crab with green apple sorbetto and crab butter powder, hand-cut tajarin with Idaho white sturgeon caviar, and braised rabbit with porcini and pancetta are just a few of the items you’ll find on the menu at this restaurant that, from the outside at least, resembles a residential home.

Craig and Anne Stoll helped usher in a new era for San Francisco’s Mission District when they opened the groundbreaking Delfina in 1998. Fresh pastas, including tagliatelle al ragu, paccheri all’amalfitana with local rock cod and spaghetti with a simple tomato, sauce are the claim to fame, but other dishes including grilled Monterey Bay calamari and roasted chicken with hen of the woods mushrooms and olive oil mashed potatoes are exemplars of Northern California cuisine.

Back in January 2008, the area around newly opened Roberta's (in the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn) was essentially a no man’s land. The area has since transformed, and Roberta's played no small role in that. Roberta’s remains an iconic pizzeria, because no matter what you order, you’re guaranteed a chewy crust and a near-perfect Neapolitan-style pie.

Located in the heart of Providence, Rhode Island, Al Forno offers an essentially perfect Italian dining experience. Husband-and-wife owner-chefs George Germon (who passed away a few years ago) and Johanne Killeen created a restaurant that serves delicious pastas and entrees, but they're perhaps best known for their invention of the grilled pizza, a regional dish we bet you haven’t heard of, which is grilled over hardwood charcoal fire. Al Forno’s most notable grilled pizza is the Margarita, which is topped with fresh herbs, dollops of tomato sauce, two cheeses and extra-virgin olive oil.

Maureen Vincenti’s Brentwood eatery, going strong since 1997, is an old-fashioned Italian classic. The menu is comforting and traditional, with pastas including house-made fusilli with Sonoma lamb ragu and squid ink risotto with shrimp and asparagus. Wood-burning-oven entrées include whole roasted Dover sole, a veal T-bone and rotisserie Sonoma County duck. The thin-crust pizzas (served only on Mondays) are some of the best around.

Chef Sarah Grueneberg spent time as executive chef at Chicago’s renowned Spiaggia before opening Monteverde in Chicago’s West Loop in 2015. Grueneberg won the James Beard Award in 2017, which came as no surprise to those who've dined there. The vibe is upbeat and lively, and diners can watch many of the pastas being made by hand. Seemingly simple pasta dishes are elevated to new heights, and this is one of those restaurants where literally everything on the menu looks — and tastes — delicious. In fact, Monteverde is one of the best restaurants in America right now.

Bistro Don Giovanni is very warm. The service is warm and inviting and there is also the physical warmth of fireside dining — there are two traditional wood-burning fireplaces, one in the enclosed terrace and one in the main dining room. But the true warmth emanating from Bistro don Giovanni, which has been delighting visitors for more than 20 years, has always come from owner Giovanni Scala. The menu features simple pizzas and pastas, sustainably farmed local fruits, vegetables and organic meats. A visit here is one of the best ways to wrap up a day in one of the most romantic places in America.

Since 1994, Il Buco has been one of New York’s most appealing Italian restaurants, serving unpretentious, homestyle fare based on first-rate American and Italian ingredients. In 2011, the proprietors opened this more casual sister restaurant — a loose translation of Alimentari & Vineria is "food shop and wine bar" — and it's so lively, with such vivid, hearty food, that it has all but overshadowed the original. It’s open for breakfast and lunch, and you can buy bread, cheese, gelato, housemade charcuterie and Italian products, but stay for dinner and you’ll encounter items like roasted clams with herbs and garlic, octopus with creamy polenta, bucatini cacio e pepe, porchetta and roasted short ribs for two. Splurge on the bread with three recent vintages of olive oil.

Chef Tandy Wilson, and his restaurant, City House, blazed onto the Nashville scene in 2007 and never looked back, picking up a 2016 James Beard Award for Best Chef: Southeast. Wilson’s fusion of Italian and Southern cuisine struck a chord, and hordes started descending on the then-decidedly un-hip Germantown neighborhood. Drop in for dinner and you’ll see what all the buzz has been about via dishes like a corncake with smashed field peas, charred lemon gremolata; a must-order pizza with belly ham, mozzarella and chiles; and cornmeal-crusted catfish with grits, smoked tomato and cabbage ragu.

Valter Nassi is always working the room at his eponymous restaurant, where his lineup of Tuscan classics (many of which were inspired by his mother's recipes) keep the crowds coming. Don't miss the Rigatoni al Sugo Della Mamma, rigatoni with a tomato-based porcini and meat sauce. Other standouts include fennel-crusted duck breast in cognac and grape sauce; sweet Italian sausage with grilled calamari, scallops and shrimp; and pork tenderloin scallopini with porcini ragu and red wine sauce.

Chef Agostino Gabriele has been cooking professionally for nearly 60 years, and has been leading the kitchen at Vincenzo's since the restaurant opened in 1986. Along with his brother Vincenzo, he’s turned the restaurant into one of Louisville's most venerable culinary institutions. Gabriele's skills are on full display in dishes like mascarpone ravioli filled with grilled chicken, spinach and mushrooms; risotto with fresh seafood in a spicy red clam sauce and veal medallions stuffed with smoked gouda and pancetta in a Madeira sauce. Be sure to consider a made-to-order soufflé for dessert.

Razza opened in late 2012 in Jersey City and became locally renowned for its wood-fired pizzas from chef-owner Dan Richer. Richer's crust is crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, and his toppings are impeccable. For example, he had to wait years for a herd of water buffalo in New Jersey to grow large enough to ensure a steady supply of the notoriously difficult-to-perfect buffalo mozzarella. For his sauce he gathers the latest vintages of canned tomatoes from California, New Jersey and Italy, blind-tastes and grades them, then blends them like fine wine.

Chef Michael Pirolo spent time at some of Italy’s top restaurants before opening Macchialina in 2012. The menu is primarily antipasti and homemade pastas. Standouts include polenta with duck ragu, cavatelli with meatballs and porchetta, burrata ravioli with cherry tomatoes and basil breadcrumbs, and veal parmigiana.

Sally's Apizza opened in the late 1930s in Wooster Square, and it's still turning out classic New Haven-style pizzas from the same coal-fired oven. These pies are thin crust, chewy, slightly charred and a little bit oblong. The tomato pie here (tomato sauce, no cheese) is a work of art, and the pie topped with mozzarella and thinly sliced potato and onion is also a masterpiece. Like other New Haven pizza joints, this is one of those rare tourist trap restaurants even the locals love.

For nearly 40 years, chef Frank Stitt has consistently raised the bar in Alabama’s culinary scene. The impressive array of culinary talents who have launched their own successful careers after spending time in his kitchen speaks volumes (so too does that James Beard Award). At Bottega, he merges the flavors of the Italian countryside and the American South with stunning results. Don’t miss the parmesan souffle with prosciutto and mushrooms, beef cheek and farro risotto, spaghetti with shellfish, or venison with grilled carrots and pomegranate molasses.

Waikiki Beach's Arancino di Mare is renowned for its flawless pasta dishes and super-fresh local seafood. Standouts include antipasti di pesce with Kauai red shrimp and a variety of other shellfish; scallop carpaccio topped with sea asparagus, tobiko caviar and red onions; spaghetti tossed with a simple garlic tomato sauce and topped with a bounty of octopus, scallops, calamari, clams, mussels and shrimp; spaghetti with fresh uni in a garlic wine cream sauce; and a 32-ounce bistecca alla fiorentina. Not only is this restaurant fantastic, but it’s also one of the most romantic restaurants in America.

When it opened in 2009, Marea was immediately acclaimed as one of the most original and consistent and wonderful upscale Manhattan restaurants in recent memory. This very handsome establishment on Central Park South specializes in fresh fish and shellfish in Italian-inspired preparations by skilled chef and restaurateur Michael White. Try the crostini with lardo and Santa Barbara sea urchin or the fusilli with red wine braised octopus and bone marrow — the latter of which is one of the most iconic dishes in America.

The elegant Domenica, located in New Orleans’ Roosevelt Hotel (the birthplace of one of America’s favorite cocktails, the Sazerac), is a darn good restaurant, and chef Corey Thomas is putting a New Orleans spin on traditional Italian cuisine. The menu boasts 11 pizzas, including the Calabrese (tomato, spicy salami, mozzarella, capers, olives), Roasted Pork (roast pork, mozzarella, red onion, Anaheim peppers, salsa verde) and Tutto Carne (salami, bacon and fennel sausage). There’s also a wide variety of house-cured salumi, pastas including tagliatelle with slow-cooked rabbit and porcini mushrooms, and entrées that include Gulf fish with root vegetables and black garlic. Make sure you save room for desserts like banana zuppa inglese and gianduja budino.

Even though Las Vegas is (very) landlocked, Costa di Mare, located in the Wynn, might as well be nestled in a coastal village overlooking the Adriatic. Fresh fish and shellfish (including purple snapper, orata and Mediterranean slipper lobster) are flown in daily from Italy and served whole and live langoustines in four sizes are a menu centerpiece (ranging in price from $32-$45 apiece). The fresh pastas are delicious (try the oven-baked spaghetti with shrimp, spiny lobster, clams, mussels, scallops and flying squid) and the prices are astronomical.

A casual complement to chef Michael Tusk’s adjoining Quince (“cotogna” is “quince” in Italian), Cotogna is a casual, sun-filled, brick-walled dining room where a daily-changing menu of wood-oven pizzas, pastas and grilled and spit-roasted meats come out of the open kitchen. All meat, cheese and produce come from local purveyors. Don’t miss the ricotta ravioli with farm egg and brown butter, grilled Wolfe Ranch quail with farro verde and pomegranate or the simple and perfect agnolotti del plin, which thankfully doesn’t leave the menu — we named it among the best pasta dishes in the United States.

Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana is one of the American restaurants you simply need to visit. The New Haven icon opened in 1925, and when it moved into a new space next door shortly thereafter it became (at the time) the largest pizzeria in America. The pizzas here are perfect examples of the New Haven regional style: oblong, charred (it's a good thing, trust us), thin-crusted, chewy and coal-fired. There are 11 locations in the Northeast, and the owners have faithfully replicated the original coal oven, brick-by-brick, at each of them. Don't miss its famed clam pie: it's topped with fresh littleneck clams, garlic, olive oil, oregano and grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, and it's a true masterpiece. In fact, it’s No. 1 on our list of the 101 best pizzas in America.

At Oliveto, chef Brian Griffith's menu is vibrant and soulful. The menu changes daily and always features unexpected local fare like linguine with Dungeness crab, tomato, pickled avocado and preserved Meyer lemon. At Oliveto you’ll try dishes and flavor combinations that you’ve never experienced before that are at once familiar and completely unusual, and you’ll be very glad that you did.

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Chef Paul Bartolotta’s flagship Italian restaurant has been drawing guests to the suburbs of Milwaukee since 1993, and it's simply one of the best special occasion restaurants in America. Don't miss the uovo in raviolo (a single large truffle raviolo encasing ricotta, spinach and a whole runny egg yolk, topped with brown butter and white truffles). Other standouts include pappardelle with slow-braised duck ragù, a crisp roasted half chicken with a lemon white wine pan sauce, an assortment of grilled seafood, a wood-roasted filet of beef with pureed potatoes and Umbrian black truffle sauce, and whatever happens to be on the chef’s four-course seasonal menu that day.

Chef Nancy Silverton's Chi Spacca (“he who cleaves” in Italian) is, as the name might imply, a temple to meat. At this restaurant, appetizers like roasted squash blossoms with ricotta and tomato vinaigrette, fried panelle, and salumi platters are preludes to meat-heavy entrees. Main dishes include the likes of l porcini-rubbed short ribs with salsa verde, a lamb shoulder chop with mint yogurt and cilantro, and milk-braised veal breast with hazelnuts and crispy sage. The 50-ounce dry-aged bone-in bistecca fiorentina is one of the country's best (and most expensive, at $250), and the tomahawk pork chop is also a force to be reckoned with. Not only is this a great Italian restaurant, it’s right up there with the best steakhouses in America.

James Beard Award-winner Lydia Shire's showstopping restaurant, Scampo, is a whole lot of fun to dine at. Surprises like tandoori-fired sea scallops and Spanish ibèrico ham await. There are six handmade breads, a full "mozzarella bar," spaghetti topped with cracklings and hot pepper, and pizza topped with artichoke and proscuitto. Entrées include duck with parsnips and steamed pumpernickel dumplings, Kurobuta pork chop with pancetta and quince, and rabbit “porchetta” with butterfly pasta with apple mostarda. Everything on the menu looks delicious, but be sure to drop in on Friday night, when the special is roast suckling pig.

A "frasca" in Italy's Fruili region is a roadside farm restaurant that serves a simple menu. Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson's Frasca Food & Wine isn't exactly that, but it does capture that spirit and champions the vast diversity of Colorado’s culinary resources. Frasca is warm and inviting, perfect for both an impromptu dinner or a special occasion celebration. The menu changes regularly, but expect elevated Italian dishes like langoustine risotto, smoked black cod with apple and horseradish, and lamb with polenta and wild mushrooms.

First of all, there’s a mozzarella bar with nine options. Beyond that, the menu includes fantastic (and sometimes unusual) pasta (goat cheese ravioli with "five lilies," meaning five members of the allium family); maltagliati with rabbit ragu and simple bavetti cacio e pepe. Main dishes range from pan-seared rib-eye cap with potato and brodo di Parmigiano to whole grilled orata wrapped in radicchio.

Del Posto opened in 2005 in New York's Meatpacking District and the gleaming, 18,000-square-foot restaurant immediately made its mark on the city. Its $69 three-course prix-fixe lunch is an absolute steal, but drop by at night for the true experience. Choose between the $179 five-course menu or the $209 eight-course “Captain’s Menu.” You’ll be served expertly prepared classic and modern Italian dishes including three preparations of Arctic char (crudo, confit and tartare) with parsley root, linguine with geoduck and lemon, garganelli al ragu Bolognese, a Tuscan shellfish stew with a squid ink fritter, salt-baked seabass with octopus and potato and red-wine wagyu short rib with polenta and spinach. And vegans take note: there’s a completely vegan tasting menu as well, putting this place on par with the best vegan-friendly restaurants in America.

Bestia is located in an old industrial warehouse, and it can only be identified by is its spray-painted name on the building. Chef Ori Menasche (who owns the restaurant with his wife, pastry chef Genevieve Gergis) is turning out some truly astonishing Italian-inspired dishes. Standout menu items include a variety of housemade salumi, roasted marrow bone with spinach gnocchetti, pizza with housemade spicy ‘nduja sausage and Tuscan kale, spaghetti with sea urchin and trout roe, and slow-roasted lamb neck with smoked anchovy creme fraiche.

With a storied history, Chicago’s Spiagga has racked up countless accolades over the years and redefined modern Italian dining in America. Currently, it sits in good hands with new executive chef Eric Lees, who’s been there since 2016 and took over in 2019 for previous chef Joe Flamm, who’s perhaps best known for winning “Top Chef.” And with menu items like risotto with wagyu beef, caramelle with foie gras and pumpkin, a dry-aged bistecca fiorentina with truffle hollandaise and its trademark gnocchi with black truffle and Parmigiano Reggiano (one of America’s most iconic dishes), it doesn’t look like they’ve skipped a beat.

Chef Marc Vetri's Philadelphia flagship serves incredibly sophisticated fare via multi-course tasting menus personalized to your taste by chef de cuisine Matt Buehler. You might end up with, for instance, a sweet onion crepe with white truffle fondue, pappardelle with beef shank ragu, dry-aged pork with turnips, and a pear and almond tart for dessert. There is also a wine cellar of more than 2,500 bottles to choose from. But all this doesn’t come cheap. The tasting menu costs $165 per person, it’s one of the most expensive restaurants in America.

The charming and elegant three Michelin-starred Quince is located in a historic building in San Francisco’s Jackson Square neighborhood. Chef and owner Michael Tusk has built relationships with the best Northern California food purveyors, and was awarded the 2011 James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Pacific for his efforts. Every night, the 10-course, $298 seasonal tasting menu features dishes that showcase the season’s finest produce. If you're looking to spend a little less, you can take a seat in the salon, where an abbreviated tasting menu is available for $180 (along with a variety of a la carte caviar-based dishes). The menu changes nightly, but sample dishes from the tasting menu include Fresh Run Farm sunchoke with pomegranate and Castelmagno cheese, wild turbot with savoy cabbage and farro, agnolotti verdi, and Four Story Hill farm veal with cardoon and bagna cauda. No wonder Quince made our list of the 101 very best restaurants in America.

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To determine the most expensive restaurants, we scoured local and national publications, crowd-sourced for places we may have missed and reviewed menus for the ultimate high-ticket dining experiences. All of these spots are places where guests pay a set price of more than $300 per person for a multi-course meal, or more than 100 bucks on an entree. You may notice a few famous places missing from the list. This is because they’re closed indefinitely due to safety concerns or government mandates. Rest assured, if and when they reopen, they’ll rejoin the ranks.

The tasting menu at chef Cesar Ramirez’s New York City three-Michelin-starred Chef’s Table, predominantly featuring fish and shellfish, costs $394.36 per person, not including wine or sake. This spot is one of the hardest restaurant reservations to get in America, but because of the pandemic, you can now order impressive eats and bottles of Champagne or wine for much cheaper, exclusively through Caviar.

Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée is the Paris flagship of one of the world’s most renowned chefs. Alain Ducasse has transformed the main dining room of the Plaza Athénée into a shimmering, white-and-gold fantasy, with massive chandeliers dripping with crystals. The atmosphere is jaw-droppingly beautiful. The five-course prix fixe costs 395 € (about $458), but if you want to order a la carte, expect individual dishes to cost up to 195 € ($226).

Several menus are available at Guy Savoy’s eponymous Las Vegas restaurant, and they’re all exorbitantly expensive: The main menu costs $555 per person — premium wine pairing included — the Krug Chef’s Table costs $650 — this comes with 10 courses and Champagne — and if you care to dine a la carte, entrees average around $125.

Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville in Crissier serves some of Switzerland’s finest cuisine. A la carte dishes range from 60 Swiss francs (for vichyssoise) to 220 (for Bresse chicken for two), and the multi-course menu costs 390 (the Swiss franc-to-dollar exchange rate is about 1-to-1).

If you want to dine at the world’s first undersea restaurant, you’re going to have to head to the Maldives and be ready to shell out for the privilege: a four-course lunch at Ithaa Undersea Restaurant costs $220, and a six-course dinner will set you back $330. Located 16 feet under the sea, it’s one of the most beautiful restaurants in the world.

Kitcho Arashiyama in Kyoto, Japan — a top destination for travelers after coronavirus — has four different tasting menus, each increasing in price and lavishness. A meal here includes soup, sashimi, a side dish, a grilled dish, a slow-cooked dish, steamed rice and pickles, fruit and green tea and confections, but it’s so much more than that. The price ranges from 40,000 yen (or about $375) to 60,000 yen (or $565) — and that’s before including tax and service charge, which pushes the bill up to 79,200 yen (or $745).

Located inside the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, the Krug Room is one of the city’s best-kept culinary secrets. Chef Robin Zavou creates three tasting menus using high-end meat and seafood along with seasonal produce, and each course pairs with Krug Champagne. Three price tiers are available: 2,888, 3,888 and 5,888 Hong Kong dollars per guest (about $373, $502 and $760, respectively) for parties of six.

A stunning Parisian gem, Le Pré Catelan is helmed by chef Frédéric Anton, who’s earned it three Michelin stars. The eight-course prix fixe menu features cherry tree-smoked salmon, veal sweetbreads and langoustine ravioli with foie gras and fine gold leaf jelly. The meal will set you back 290 € (about $336).

Chef Anne-Sophie Pic’s three-Michelin-star restaurant Maison Pic is located in the charming city of Valence in southeast France, and it’s centered around a large chandelier and three unique dining rooms with windowed bays that open into gardens. The tasting menu here costs 320 €, or about $370, and features plates called Eucalyptus recomposé (“recomposed eucalyptus”) and Verdeur fondante (“melting greenery”).

The one restaurant you need to visit in Ibiza is Sublimotion. The 12-seat restaurant is essentially a blank canvas, and as each course changes, so too does the setting. Over a 12-course dinner, the scene shifts from the bottom of the ocean to a lush garden to a futuristic club to a carnival to high-tech fictional worlds, with music, VR and stagecraft. A meal there costs 1,650 € (or about $1,913) per person, and guests are welcome to enjoy the open bar in the private terrace when dinner concludes.

This restaurant is so cool, you need to see it to believe it. Ultraviolet is one of the most outrageous restaurants in Shanghai, China. Its 10 nightly guests are taken to a secret location, where they sit around a table in a minimalist dining room and enjoy a 20-course avant-garde meal. Wall projections, sounds and smells correspond with each dish, and the price tag is quite high: 4,000 yuan, or about $571, per person.

Some say the chance to dine at Noma is like finding the golden ticket in Willy Wonka. This famous Copenhagen, Denmark, restaurant serves seasonal plates, including a vegetable menu in the summer and a game and forest menu in the fall. Pricing is subject to change as the offerings do, but you can expect to pay around 2,650 Danish krone ($412) per person, plus 1,450 Danish krone ($225) for wine and 950 Danish krone ($148) for juice.

Geranium in Denmark, Copenhagen, offers an artistic multi-course tasting menu featuring organic, wild and seasonal Scandinavian ingredients. The plates here are described as “edible art.” For example, there’s a dish that looks like razor clams, but is actually dough painted with squid ink. If you’re lucky to get a reservation here, your tab will be 2,700 Danish krone ($417) per head and up to 15,000 Danish krone ($2,316) for wine pairing.

The fixed lunch and dinner menus at Frantzen in Stockholm are 3,500 Swedish krona ($395) per person, plus your choice of beverages. The three-story restaurant has 23 guests per seating, all of whom are treated to an experimental 10-course tasting of Nordic cuisine with Asian influence.

If you’re looking for a romantic dining experience, Mirazur in Menton, France, boasts unparalleled views of the French Riviera and three levels of vegetable gardens. The tasting menu is inspired by the sea and mountains and always changing, but you can expect to pay 320€ ($370) for a meal at the world’s best restaurant.

The menu at Narisawa in Tokyo changes with the seasons, with each rotation representing Satoyama, a border zone between mountain foothills and flatland where people live sustainably with nature. Here, dinner will run you 38,500 yen ($360).

Enjoy AIR: Alinea in Residence, an all-new multi-course Chicago rooftop dining experience, available rain or shine for $285 to $315 per person; or take your meal to go for a much cheaper price. This meal requires reheating at home, but we guarantee either option is worth it. Alinea is among the 101 best restaurants in America.

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