Eater names Philadelphia's Machine Shop among best new restaurants

Zoom in: Pastry chef Emily Riddell ran the Machine Shop as a wholesale operation for about five years, with her baked goods available at pop-ups and coffee shops, before opening the retail bakery this January.

• Eater praised Machine Shop for embodying "high standards of excellence without any of the pretension."

Plus: Riddell was named among Food & Wine’s best new chefs in 2022.

The big picture: It's been a good year for bakers, according to Eater.

• "This is the year that a bakery — not a bakery-plus-restaurant, not a bakery with a savory menu too, just a damn good bakery — can feel revolutionary, even when sticking to the classics," Eater wrote.

Of note: Eater considered restaurants that launched between Sept. 1, 2021, and Sept. 30, 2022.