Monday Munchies: The 10 best places we ate in 2025
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Left: Chicken Adobo; Right: Pancit Bihon with shrimp. Photos: Alex Golden/Axios
It's a tough job, but … well, we're glad to do it for our readers. We get to check out newish places to eat all the time.
The big picture: If you're short on ideas when asked "what's for dinner?" here's a great cheat sheet — our faves throughout 2025.
🧀 Bloom Cheese Collective — A simple sandwich menu rounds out this eclectic cheese shop's offerings.
🍰 Butter + Blooms — Cakes and pastries here are rich, buttery and definitely cute.
🌮 Casa Alejo — Mexican spot with mouth-watering birria.
🧆 Casa Doner — Casual Mediterranean eatery with great chicken shawarma.
🇵🇭 Lasang Pinoy — A Filipino restaurant where you'll want to bring your friends because everything is family-style and delicious.
🍝 Mezzaluna — An upscale Italian place to put on your list for date night pasta.
🥩 Oak Steakhouse — A polished steak joint embedded in the Rogers skyline, but still laid-back enough for blue jeans.
🍅 Ryn — A fine dining, tasting menu-only restaurant that gets some of its ingredients from right outside at its on-site farm.
🥐 Un Deux Trois café — French-inspired eggs, bread and coffee. That's all you need to know.
🇵🇪 Warike 115 — Where to find Chinese-Peruvian fusion dishes full of flavor.
Worth mentioning:
- 🍦 Honeybean — This ice cream truck is serving up some of the best cold desserts around, but it's only open seasonally.
- 🐷 Jones' Bar-B-Q Diner — This barbecue legend is on the other side of the state, so it's off the Top 10, but it's heaven on Earth for meat eaters.