At the hard-to-get-into pastaRAMEN in Montclair, New Jersey, diners don’t have to decide if their meal will include Italian flavors or Japanese flavors. They’ll get both in such crowd-pleasing dishes as Cacio e Pepe Gyoza and Temomi Ramen Shrimp Scampi.
The restaurant exemplifies a major 2024 food trend in the U.S.: European 2.0. Classic European cuisines such as Italian are evolving stateside and growing in popularity, according to food-and-beverage market research firm Datassential, which identified the trend. Restaurants serving modern European cuisine are opening across the U.S., displaying new ideas, next-generation ingredients and dishes that are lesser-known to U.S. consumers.