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7 fascinating new restaurants we’re dying to try this fall

Permanent outdoor dining, smoky barbecue obsessions, community-minded comfort food from all over the world and new concepts from coast to coast

Tara Fitzpatrick, Senior Editor

October 13, 2020

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While restaurant patios hold onto warmer weather, the restaurant industry hopes for a change in the current (and harsh) economic and political climate. The ongoing pandemic has made things bleak, no doubt about it.

Still, we hold onto the bright glimmers of hope with new restaurant openings this season. These newcomers bring a sense of place reoriented in some cases: A French brasserie in Tex-Mex country of San Antonio’s Pearl district. Fine Italian dining in the heart of Nashville’s honky-tonk avenue. Art merging with cuisine and diners wrapped in blankets for al fresco bliss in San Francisco.  Two other new concepts are permeated by smoke, the barbecue variety.

We see more pandemic-related shifts: parking spaces are becoming dining spaces, and takeout takes on new urgency. And this year isn’t over yet.

Check out these new restaurants emerging onto the scene and ready to weather the elements for the remainder of this year and beyond.

Contact Tara at [email protected].

Follow her on Twitter @Tara_Fitzie.

About the Author

Tara Fitzpatrick

Senior Editor, Informa Restaurant & Food Group

Tara Fitzpatrick is Food Management’s senior editor and a contributor to Restaurant Hospitality and Nation’s Restaurant News, creating editorial content for digital, print and events. Tara holds a bachelor of science degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kent State University. Before joining Food Management in 2008, Tara was associate editor at National Association of College Stores in Oberlin, Ohio. Prior to that, Tara worked as a newspaper reporter in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio, where she lives now. Tara is a fan of food history, legends, lore, ghost stories, urban farming and old cookbooks. 

Tara Fitzpatrick’s areas of expertise include the onsite foodservice industry (K-12 schools, colleges and universities, healthcare and B&I), menu trends, sustainability in foodservice, senior dining, farm-to-table and innovation.

Tara Fitzpatrick is a frequent webinar and podcast host and has served on the board of directors for IFEC (International Food Editors Consortium).

Tara Fitzpatrick’s experience:

Senior Editor, Food Management (Feb 2008-present)

Associate Editor, National Association of College Stores (2005-2008)

Reporter, The Morning Journal (2002-2005)

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