If there’s one thing that totally rocked in 2016, it was the slate of new restaurant openings in Montreal.

This year, Toronto toned down its affinity for Japanese cheesecake and “cold-pressed everything,” and unhinged its jaw to dig into new obsessions: tortas, poke bowls, sushi burritos, Thai rolled ice cream, and melt-in-your-mouth Texas BBQ.

Though 2016 has been quite a year in a lot of respects, it was not the year of the restaurant.

2016 was a really good year for the Honolulu restaurant scene with lots of brand-spanking-new spots making names for themselves.

Deciding where to satisfy the urge when hunger strikes has gotten exponentially harder in Denver this year.

It's been a monumental year for Berlin’s restaurant scene.

2016 has been an eventful year, to say the least, so you might not have noticed all the excellent new restaurants that opened around town.

It was a banner year for Memphis restaurants, especially in our seemingly ever-expanding Downtown area.

Even those of us who subscribe to all the food blogs, search for #newopenings, and cross town for soft launches find it hard to keep track of London’s newest restaurants; there just aren’t enough meals in the day.