654: Who Made Bon Appétit’s Best New Restaurants List? Joseph Hernandez Helped Make the Tough Calls.

Today on the show, we have a great conversation with Joseph Hernandez . He’s the associate director of drinks & lifestyle at Bon Appétit and Epicurious, and we talk about BA ’s best new restaurants of 2025 list that drops today. It’s a terrific list that covers the United States with ambition and great taste, including stops in Pittsburgh, Honolulu, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Who made the list? We go over all of it. Also on the show, Aliza and Matt go over some of their favorite baking cookbooks from this busy fall season. These include: Pastry Temple , The Art of Gluten-Free Bread , Lebanese Baking , Baking and the Meaning of Life , The Secret Life of Chocolate Chip Cookies , Dorie’s Anytime Cakes , Dobre Dobre , 108 Asian Cookies . This is a really fun episode, and we hope you enjoy it. Subscribe to This Is TASTE : ⁠⁠ Apple Podcasts ⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠ Spotify ⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠ YouTube ⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices