Esquire’s
The Best New Restaurants in America, 2023

CORNER OFFICE

Taos, New Mexico

“A decade ago, Zak Pelaccio and Jori Jayne Emde kick-started a culinary boom in New York’s Hudson Valley with a risky, first-of-its-kind restaurant called Fish & Game. Not long after Pelaccio won a James Beard Award, they sold it, quietly moved to Taos, and decided to hit reset. Quirky and shaggy and unlike anything Taos has ever seen, Corner Office is the après-ski lodge of your dreams: a warren for quaffing natural wines and feasting on funky comfort food. You want a frico, which is a potato pancake all gooey with melted Gruyère, and you want the sardine toast that involves sourdough smeared with the hand-churned French butter known as Beurre de Baratte. You want plenty of time, too, because you’ll wind up staying for hours. —J.G.”