Des Moines area restaurant fans love to know what’s new, what’s hot and what favorite chef just launched a second effort that should be tried.
With that, the Des Moines Register updates its hot list , a look at some of the newest restaurants that diners can’t get enough of.
Here’s a look at 11 of the hottest new restaurants in the Des Moines metro , an alphabetical list that will be updated monthly as new restaurants arrive with newcomers removed as they reach six months old.
Basic Bird
Chef Joe Tripp, the five-time James Beard Foundation semifinalist for Best Chef Midwest, and his wife, Alexandra, opened Basic Bird in the Beaverdale neighborhood for fast-casual Korean street food.
Korean fried chicken makes up the heart of the menu, slathered in optional sauces such as sweet honey butter, spicy gochujang, or a combination of both. Diners can order cauliflower as well.
New menu items include bone-in chicken, a sandwich on brioche bun, and two kinds of dumplings — boiled chicken and kimchi or crispy chicken and chives. The restaurant also offers honey butter French fries, bubbly cheese corn as well as instant ramen salad, and a bap bowl with fresh veggies on top of Korean rice with a fried egg.