The results of one of the restaurant industry’s most closely watched rankings landed this week, sorting the best kitchens across the United States and Canada into a single pecking order. When the dust settled, one Upper West Side restaurant had earned a spot among them.
That restaurant is Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi, the genre-bending hit inside Lincoln Center, which landed at No. 39 on the 2026 edition of North America’s 50 Best Restaurants. Now in only its second year, the ranking is the regional arm of the global World’s 50 Best Restaurants franchise.
Onwuachi’s Lincoln Center restaurant, named for his older sister, has been one of the neighborhood’s most coveted reservations since it opened, and the new honor caps a steady run of national acclaim. The top spot this year went to Chicago’s Smyth, while New York held its usual heavy presence on the list — a full roster of city winners, from César to Torrisi, that Eater rounded up in detail…