What It’s Like Eating at America’s Best New Restaurants for a Living

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🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder what it would be like to just travel around the country and eat for a living? If so, you'll want to buddy up to this week's guest, Julia Kramer, Bon Appétit's deputy editor and lead for the magazine's Best New Restaurants in America list. Each spring, she travels to more than 200 restaurants, booking double dinners, brunches, lunches, and more to find the best of the best and chisel it all down into one definitive lineup: the Hot 10. A few months ago (when the list was still very much top secret) we sat down with Julia before she headed out on maternity leave to find out just what it takes to do her job—and, of course, where we should be traveling to eat. The result is an episode that has us ready to book flights to Dallas, Detroit, and more for some Malaysian nasi lemak, Laotian noodles, rhubarb danishes, and charcuterie boards. Needless to say, you'll be hungry by the time it's over.

Reminder: If you’re in New York City and you want to taste some of the amazing dishes from the Hot 10 restaurants for yourself, Women Who Travel listeners can get 10 percent off tickets to Bon Appétit’s Hot Ten party on October 19 at BAhot10.com with code WWTHOT10.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Kanias Traveler.
0:08.4	I'm Meredith Keri, and with me, as always, is my co-host Lali Aricoglu.
0:11.9	Hello.
0:12.6	We are coming to you, essentially, from the past.
0:15.1	We're recording this episode in mid-July, because by the time it airs, our very lovely guest will be well into her
0:20.9	maternity leave. Joining us today and spilling on all things food is Bon Appetit's deputy editor,
0:25.9	Julia Kramer. Thanks for having me. In the same way that Traveler puts together our hot list of
0:30.9	incredible new hotels shaking things up, Bon Appetit puts out its list of the best new restaurants
0:35.5	in America. And as with Hot List,
0:38.5	I imagine the best new restaurants takes a lot of heavy lifting and a lot of research and a lot of
0:45.3	eating. I'd love to kind of dial it back to the beginning and to sort of, Julia, how did you get
0:50.5	started at BA and how did you end up on the new restaurant beat?
0:59.2	I used to be a restaurant critic in Chicago for our weekly paper there.
1:04.5	And I did that for five years and I was kind of a brutal restaurant critic.
1:08.1	Like I would just, I don't know, I had no filter. I was like, I guess what it's like to be 23 and have an outlet to say whatever
1:14.0	you want. And I really enjoyed that a lot. And while I was doing that, I became friendly with
1:19.4	Andrew Nolten, who used to be the deputy editor at Bon Appetit. And he would come into town and he'd
1:23.8	ask me where to eat and we would go out to eat and eventually he brought me on to
1:28.7	Bon Appetit, where I started working with him six years ago and he would sort of give me the cities
1:35.7	that he put together this list for many years and he would give me the cities that he didn't want to go to.
1:42.2	And then those were actually the cities I was more excited about
1:46.6	because, you know, of course you're gonna find amazing restaurants
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