The Best New Restaurants in the World: 2025 Hot List
May 1, 2025 | 1 min to read
Throughout the past year, the editors at Conde Nast Traveler explored the globe to compile the 29th edition of the Hot List, showcasing the best new and revitalized dining and lodging experiences. Highlights include adventurous meals like zip-lining to dinner in the Maldives and unique stays in transformed locales, such as a tree house in Kenya and an auto body shop in Mexico City. This year's theme emphasizes joy, a much-needed sentiment.
This year’s best new dining destinations, from New Orleans to Sydney.
We’ve spent the last 12 months sleeping, eating, and sailing our way around the globe in order to bring you the 29th edition of the Hot List, our carefully curated annual collection of the best new (and reborn) hotels, restaurants, and cruise ships in the world, and we had a ton of fun doing it. How could we not when it involved activities like zip-lining to dinner in the Maldives, sleeping in an actual tree house in Kenya, and eating a truly memorable meal in a converted auto body shop in Mexico City? The through line of this year’s list is joy—something we could all use a little more of in our lives. These are the 2025 Hot List winners.
To see the full list of winners, please visit Conde Nast Traveler.