Esquire: Oun Lido’s on Best New List

Oun Lido’s is on Esquire magazine’s list of the Best New Restaurants of 2024.

…Using Maine’s rightfully lauded ingredients, cooking in a space that’s still in the process of being built out, and tapping into hazy, precious memories of childhood, [chef Bounahcree “Bones” Kim] turns out plates that brilliantly synthesize Cambodian and Cantonese flavors. Baptized in pungent homemade prahok, a Cambodian fish sauce, his beef salad topped with toasted rice powder is a salty-sweet-crunchy-meaty mouth party…

Oun Lido’s is one of two businesses in New England and 35 establishments overall included in the Esquire list.