After saying goodbye to neighborhood favorites such as Bad Saint and Meridian Pint, locals hope a new crop of bars and restaurants in this longstanding Columbia Heights culinary hot spot are here to stay.

Enrique Limardo’s Latin American eatery on 14th Street is one of three restaurants to make the list.

It credits the bagel shop with ending the city’s “much-kvetched-about bagel drought.”

The Hot 10 list was whittled down from 50, which included Mount Pleasant’s Ellē and the three eateries inside The Line hotel.

The real winner may be Petworth’s Upshur Street corridor.

Chef Jeremiah Langhorne’s obsession with local cuisine has paid off with a nod as one of the country’s ten best new restaurants.

Welcome to the past year in District dining, where long lines, Asian-fusion everything, and hyperlocal produce reigned supreme.

Including Crane & Turtle, Rural Society and Nurish.

Two D.C. restaurants and one in Alexandria made the cut in Bon Appétit’s list of the country’s 50 best new restaurants in the magazine’s September issue.