Jill Broussard
With its decadent, over-the-top décor, The Charles is like the love child of Fellini and Chihuly—with utterly fabulous food. J Chastain delivers wood-fired oysters topped with crisp pepperoni and bronzed, Taleggio cheese-filled focaccia to nibble on, but also excellent house-made pastas (try the simple noodles delicately fluttered with Italian truffles) and mains, with sophisticated forays into fennel pollen and house-made burrata.