Hyper-curated city guides · No. 2 · Fall/Winter 2026

listedeville

The best of the best in a city — must-visit, unique, a rockstar in its own right. All ten cities are live.

10cities, from New York to Houston
7,973places across twelve lists per city
324Michelin-starred restaurants, all cities
30itineraries — one, three or five days

Cities

Ten cities. Ten live.

Each guide is a running list — revised, argued over, never quite finished.

Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan at night

New York

975 places · Fall/Winter 2026 · the first published edition

Boston

Boston

795 places · Fall/Winter 2026 · new

The Washington Monument at dawn

Washington, DC

783 places · Fall/Winter 2026 · new

Miami

Miami

753 places · Fall/Winter 2026 · new

Chicago

Chicago

803 places · Fall/Winter 2026 · new

San Francisco

San Francisco

799 places · Fall/Winter 2026 · new

Los Angeles

Los Angeles

797 places · Fall/Winter 2026 · new

Seattle

Seattle

738 places · Fall/Winter 2026 · new

New Orleans

New Orleans

764 places · Fall/Winter 2026 · new

Houston

Houston

765 places · Fall/Winter 2026 · new

How to read a listedeville

Twelve lists, seven occasions, one filter away.

Every city is sorted into the same twelve lists — the restaurants and bars, of course, but also the speakeasies you need a password for, the rooftops worth the elevator, the coffee, the brunch, the bakeries, the dessert, the scene, the nightlife, and an off-beat list for the things that could only exist in that town. Think of them as twelve short books on one shelf.

Then every place is tagged for the evening you're actually planning: romantic, date night, casual, group, brunch, late night, sweets. Tap one on a city page and the whole guide narrows to fit — add a price band, a neighborhood word in the search box, or "Michelin-starred," and you're down to a shortlist you can book from. The little marks beside each name (★, Bib, 50 Best, NYT, JBF) say who else agrees; the Amex tick says the dinner pays you back.

Cafés — a café sign in Manhattan Speakeasies — neon after dark Rooftops — the skyline from above Brunch — a plate, close up
Cafés · Speakeasies · Rooftops · Brunch — four of the twelve.

The compiler

Tony Abraham

Technology entrepreneur. New Yorker. A passionate home cook who learned that the best way to understand a dish is to try to recreate it the next morning.

Honestly Speaking is written from a simple conviction: that the food itself — its taste, its texture, its quiet decisions — deserves a more careful kind of attention than it usually gets. The plate, not the room. The dish, not the hype.

Every guide is cross-referenced against the Michelin Guide, the World's 50 Best, The New York Times, The Infatuation, Eater, Resy, OpenTable and Yelp — then argued down to the places worth an evening.

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