Welcome to Hillstone, America's Favorite Restaurant | Bon Appetit

It’s never going to win a James Beard Award. Or try to wow you with its foam experiments or ingredients you’ve never heard of. But it is the best-run, most-loved, relentlessly respected restaurant in America. And, oh yeah, Danny Meyer, David Chang, and Shaq all agree. Welcome to Hillstone.

Thanks, but no thanks. That’s essentially the response I got. It’s not often that a restaurant turns down a story in a national food magazine. As the deputy editor of Bon Appétit , I’m usually the one fielding calls from publicists requesting coverage for the cool new place from so-and-so who worked for a month at Noma in Copenhagen. Big-name chefs are featured in our pages monthly. So why was a chain restaurant telling me to get lost? We got 8 never-before-published recipes for Hillstone's most popular dishes That’s what happened when I first e-mailed the Hillstone Restaurant Group (perhaps k

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