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BEST UP-AND-COMING CITY Providence, Rhode Island 🏆

2023 Reader’s choice award by Hemispheres magazine. www.hemispheresmag.com/the-magazine/

BEST UP-AND-COMING CITY Providence, Rhode Island We shouldn't be surprised that a city with one of the most competitive art and design schools in the country (RISD) would have a cool streak, but the capital of America's smallest state has begun to overshadow some of its more glamorous neighbors. New hotels include The Beatrice, which opened in 2021 in the 1887 Exchange Building, and the collegiate-themed Graduate Providence, which brims with artworks such as Ashley Longshore's portrait of fashion legend—and Brown University alum—Andre Leon Talley (pictured). On the food front, two locals recently made it onto the James Beard Awards' long list for Best Chef in the Northeast: Milena Pagan of Puerto Rican café Little Sister and Robert Andreozzi of Pizza Marvin, which might be the only place in America that tops its seafood tower with a pizza.

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