As 2024 turns to 2025, every media outlet on earth churns out a “best of” list, but ours is particularly delicious. You can make these recipes any time of year, but these were our reader-picked most popular recipes in each delectable category of our website. Eat well and drink well in 2025, and stay healthy and happy!
TABLE Magazine‘s Best Recipes of 2024
Best Vegetarian Recipes of 2024
Plant-based and vegetarian food is on the rise as a food trend, and it’s here to stay. We expanded this category to vegetarian because we love cheese, but everything on this list can also be made vegan if you so choose.
Best Lunch Recipes of 2024
Lunch should have a moment this year. There’s all this focus on dinner, but lunch can be an important meal of the day as well, as Meike Peters’ cookbook Noon posits. What makes a good lunch? It’s up to interpretation, but this can be a great question to ask yourself going into 2025.
Best Finger Foods of 2024
Throwing a party? Whether it’s to watch a sports game, an awards show, or simply to get together with friends, finger foods are a good party snack to keep the fun going without a lot of prep or a lot of mess.
Best Soup Recipes of 2024
It’s winter. The weather leaves something to be desired. Soup can help! Borscht, pumpkin, squash, and more can warm your heart and soul as you bundle up and stay in. But soup can be a summer thing, too, if it’s chilled and uses seasonal produce.
Best Weeknight Dinners of 2024
There are 261 weekdays in a year. So, the weeknight dinner is a big deal. A weeknight dinner is something that’s easy, adaptable, and can serve a lot of people or give you a lot of leftovers the next day. These recipes are all designed to make your life a little easier and a little tastier.
Best Mocktails of 2024
Non-alcoholic drinks are on the upswing as a food and beverage menu trend. Mocktails don’t have to have non-alcoholic spirits—they can be as simple as a shrub with sparkling water, ginger, and lemon.
Best Salads of 2024
Is your new year’s resolution to eat healthier? Well, look no further than our best salads of 2024. We’ve got potato salads, roasted beet salads, lemon za’atar salad, some of the simplest, most fun salads out there to add a touch of color to your table.
Best Pasta of 2024
Our motto at TABLE could be “Italians do it better.” We have quite the serving of pasta recipes to round out the year, from Cacio e Pepe to Carbonara. Open up a bottle of Barbera, grate some Pecorino, and dive in.
Best Desserts of 2024
Who needs cleanses and dieting, anyway? Sometimes, you just want to indulge. Life is short, eat dessert first. And then eat it again. This list has all the cakes, pies, and cookies you could possibly want.
Best Cookbooks of 2024
Staff writer and author herself Julia Platt Leonard rounded up her favorite cookbooks from the year with the recipes that inspired her the most. The cookbook authors also generously shared their favorite recipes, linked within the article.
Best Gardening Books of 2024
Want to redecorate your backyard? As winter turns to spring, maybe you want a touch of color in your garden. Julia Platt Leonard also picked her favorite books to inspire you to bring as bit more of Mother Nature’s beauty into your life.
Best Cocktails of 2024
Just because New Year’s is over doesn’t mean the party has to stop. We’ve got inventive themed cocktails for the hottest pop culture releases of the year classics like the Espresso Negroni to add to your 2025 bar menu. Cheers!
Story by Emma Riva
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