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A Ginjinha
A standing-room-only cherry liqueur bar near Rossio, pouring ginjinha since 1840.
Ainotsuji Machiya
A restored machiya townhouse stay in Kanazawa's old merchant quarter, a handful of tatami rooms.
Al Dhafra Restaurant
An old-school seafood house on the Abu Dhabi corniche, piling grilled catch and rice onto tables for local families.
Al Fanar Restaurant & Cafe
A traditional Emirati café near Souq Al Zafarana serving breakfast, Arabic coffee, and simple local dishes all morning.
Al Garghet
A 1950s farmhouse-on-stilts restaurant on Milan's rural southern edge, over a canal, serving Milanese classics.
Al Mohamadiya Cafeteria
A tiny neighbourhood cafeteria in Al Shuwaiheen, barely reviewed, known locally for its Chips Oman sandwich.
Al Mrzab Traditional Restaurant
A traditional Emirati restaurant behind the National Theatre serving simple Bedouin-style home cooking.
Al Ustad Special Kebab
A decades-old Iranian kebab house down a Deira side street, still mostly full of regulars rather than visitors.
Alley
A young couple's Kallio bistro, honest plates and artisanal wine, still running on almost no reviews.
Amal Center
A Guéliz restaurant and training kitchen where every meal helps fund and train local women for kitchen work.
Arabian Tea House Restaurant & Cafe
A wind-tower courtyard café in Al Fahidi serving Emirati breakfast and tea in a restored coral-stone house.
Araf İstanbul
A chef couple's open kitchen in a quiet Kadıköy apartment block, working through offal most menus skip.
Archivo Maguey - Mezcalería
A mezcal archive with a serious kitchen attached, serving contemporary Oaxacan plates alongside rare bottles.
Arctic TreeHouse Hotel
Glass-walled suites above Rovaniemi, built so the northern lights are visible from bed.
Argentikon Luxury Suites
A 16th-century walled estate in Chios's Kampos district, restored rather than rebuilt, with a stone-and-citrus patio to match.
Ayutthaya Antique House
A restored teak homestay in a quiet Ayutthaya garden, a short walk from the riverside temple ruins.
Baan Nok craft hamlet
Ceramicists, one coffee cart, and a pond. Ten minutes off the loop and nobody follows.
Bacareto da Lele
A student-favourite bacaro near Piazzale Roma, selling cheap ombre and simple panini standing up.
Bar Arocena
The Montevideo bar behind the chivito Anthony Bourdain called the "Everest of steak sandwiches."
Barney Greengrass
The Upper West Side "Sturgeon King" deli Anthony Bourdain called an essential part of a balanced breakfast.
Baths of Caracalla
The colossal ruins of Rome's imperial bathing complex, marble halls bigger than most basilicas, open to the sky.
Bodega de la Ardosa
A barrel-stacked Centro tavern open since 1892, known for hot vermouth and a crowd that never seems to change.
Brouwerij 't IJ
An organic brewery built into the base of a working windmill, best reached by bike.
Bu Qtair Restaurant
A bare-bones fishermen's-hut seafood grill on the Umm Suqeim beach, eaten at plastic tables by the water.
Bún chả Hương Liên
A modest Hanoi grill where Anthony Bourdain and Barack Obama shared bún chả and cheap beer in 2016.
Café Hoppe
A brown café on the Spui pouring drinks since 1670, one of Amsterdam's oldest working bars.
Cağaloğlu Hamam
A marble Ottoman hammam built in 1741, still washing visitors under the same vaulted domes.
Casa Ricardo
A Chamberí institution serving a set table and a slow-cooked stew that tastes like old Madrid.
Casa Toni
A loud, crowded Centro tapas bar built around offal and tripe, with regulars who've been coming for decades.
Chitose
A Nishinari neighbourhood canteen cooking thick Osaka-style okonomiyaki on the hotplate in front of you.
Csendes Létterem
A former 1883 literary café turned ruin bar, café by morning and DJ-run bar by night.
Custard Nakamura
A tiny Japanese bakery in a Sukhumvit alley making the same custard pudding buns since 1970.
Dagmar Bistro & Wine Bar
A neighbourhood wine bar by the Parliament steps, sommelier tastings and plates that feel like a friend's kitchen.
Dar Roumana
A converted medina palace with a candlelit rooftop and modern Moroccan cooking, a step up from the standard riad dinner.
Diporto
An unmarked basement taverna under Athens's Central Market, feeding traders and locals since 1887.
Doboz
A "premium" ruin club built around a 320-year-old tree and a giant illuminated wooden gorilla.
Dogo Onsen Honkan
Japan's oldest onsen bathhouse, a Meiji-era timber turret said to have inspired Spirited Away's bathhouse.
EcoCamp Patagonia
Geodesic domes inside Torres del Paine itself, with the granite towers visible from camp.
El Gallito Cantina
A dim, tiled neighborhood cantina in Centro, unhurried and mostly local.
El Higo
A neighbourhood grill tucked into the Albaicín's lanes, smoking meat for a local, unhurried crowd.
El Morocco Club
A 1950s salon of vintage brass and zellige tile in the Marshan district, once a haunt of Tangier's artists and spies.
Enoteca e Trattoria La Cantinetta
A tumbling Naples wine-cellar trattoria known for slow Sunday ragù, well outside the historic center.
Erth Restaurant
A contemporary Emirati restaurant built into a restored building inside Qasr Al Hosn's historic walls.
Fino Bar
Creative Andalusian tapas and wine on a residential Gràcia street, well away from Barcelona's tourist strips.
Fivelandsneset Fjordhytter
A small family-run set of fjord cabins at the water's edge in the hamlet of Markhus.
Free Spirit Spheres
Fibreglass spheres suspended in the rainforest canopy near Qualicum Beach, swaying gently with the wind.
Fretheim Fjordhytter
Traditional fjord cabins on the shore of the Aurlandsfjord, a short walk from Flåm's harbour.
Friedrichsbad
A 19th-century Roman-Irish bathing palace running a seventeen-station ritual through domed, tiled halls.
Hotel Haikko Manor & Spa
A grand manor-house hotel, spa and restaurant in Porvoo's leafy waterside park.
Három Holló
A vaulted medieval cellar below Castle Hill, pouring craft beer in a setting the newer ruin bars can't fake.
Henna Art Cafe
A rooftop café and small garden above the souk, mint tea and henna application done by hand.
Hotel Los Amantes
An art-curated boutique hotel in Centro, named for Oaxacan lovers — and their mezcal.
Hürrem Sultan Hamamı
A 16th-century Mimar Sinan hammam beside Hagia Sophia, restored to twin-domed marble symmetry.
Husk
Sean Brock's Low Country restaurant, the anchor of Anthony Bourdain's 2015 Charleston episode of Parts Unknown.
Instant-Fogas
Two merged ruin-bar landmarks — seven rooms, a rooftop and a different scene behind every door.
Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que
The gas-station barbecue joint Anthony Bourdain named one of "13 Places to Eat Before You Die" — renamed from Oklahoma Joe's in 2014.
Kanazawa Shinise Kinenkan
A preserved Kaga merchant house in Nagamachi, kept as a museum of craft and daily life.
Khao Soi Lung Prakit Kad Kom
A charcoal-fired khao soi shop in the old Kad Kom market, the bowl people credit with making Chiang Mai's khao soi famous.
Khao Soi Mae Sai
A decades-old khao soi shop near Chiang Mai's Chang Phueak neighbourhood, cheap and consistently packed with locals.
Király Thermal Bath
A small domed Ottoman bath in District II, still running on water piped in from Lukács since 1565.
Kobe Tonteki Phrom Phong
A cash-only Japanese-Western hole-in-the-wall near Phrom Phong, known for sous-vide pork done impossibly tender.
Kolarbyn Eco-Lodge
Moss-roofed forest huts with no electricity, built in the style of old charcoal burners' shelters.
Kőleves Kert
A summer-only garden bar with hammocks under mulberry trees — the mellow answer to Szimpla two doors down.
Kopitiam by Wilai
A heritage Sino-Portuguese coffee house on Phuket Old Town's Thalang Road, known for its old-town breakfast.
Kuurna
A quiet Kruununhaka bistro that helped start Helsinki's bistro boom, still running on natural wine and seasonal plates.
La Cueva
A former wine bar on Hidalgo street reborn as a candlelit cocktail and mezcal den.
La Negrita Cantina
Mérida's first bar, pouring since 1917 among vintage bottles and a crowd of regulars.
L'Affaire est Ketchup
A tiny Quebec City bistro Anthony Bourdain tweeted his thanks to after filming Parts Unknown there.
Lámpás
A below-street-level ruin pub with live music every night and a crowd of locals who never left.
Le Bernardin
Eric Ripert's Midtown seafood dining room — the restaurant Anthony Bourdain called his own favourite.
Le Continental
A Quebec City classic Anthony Bourdain visited for the flambéed tableside cooking on Parts Unknown.
Le Dôme Café
An 1898 Montparnasse seafood brasserie Anthony Bourdain called second only to the Eiffel Tower as a Paris must-visit.
Le Jardin des Biehn
A riad garden café in the Fes medina, homemade lunch served under old orange trees.
Le Mossacce
A four-generation family trattoria a block from Florence's Duomo, serving ribollita and bistecca at shared tables.
Les Maisons de Cappadoce
Cave houses in Uçhisar restored over two decades by a French architect, with a kitchen in nearly every one.
Local House Restaurant
A home-style Emirati and Gulf restaurant tucked into Al Fahidi's old coral lanes, away from the tourist strip.
Los Danzantes
Contemporary Mexican cooking in a leafy Coyoacán garden, from the mezcal house behind the Oaxaca original.
Los Diamantes
Unpolished seafood tapas, fried fish straight off the coast, with Granadinos three-deep at the bar.
Lukács Baths
The locals-first thermal bath that feeds neighbouring Király's water supply, away from the tourist circuit.
Luster Fjordhytter
Simple cabins on the inner Sognefjord, with glacier and peak trips a short drive away.
MAGI/one.1
A tiny Miyagi-cuisine izakaya in Shimokitazawa, pouring sake from the same region.
Maqam
An intimate riad-style restaurant near the Hassan II Mosque, classic Moroccan plates in a quiet, old-world room.
Mavro Provato
A Pangrati taverna serving Greek classics with unusual precision, and service locals still talk about.
Mazel Tov
A vine-canopied ruin courtyard doubling as a Middle Eastern restaurant, one of District VII's two anchor bars.
Mesón El Yunque
A quiet Albaicín restaurant beside Plaza de San Miguel Bajo, where the locals eat.
Miranda Gardens Resort
Cottages on the Avenue of the Giants where the redwoods start at the end of your balcony.
Nagataya
Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki, cabbage and noodles layered rather than mixed, griddled at the counter.
Nakashimaya
Home-style obanzai cooking in a Kyoto machiya lane, running since 1958.
Okonomiyaki Izakaya Gen
Okonomiyaki cooked at your seat alongside a full izakaya menu, just off Dotonbori.
Old Sewing Factory courtyard
A Soviet garment plant turned into a courtyard of small cafés. Go on a weekday.
Osteria del Sole
A wine-only Bologna osteria dating to 1465, no kitchen, bring your own food.
Osteria Manì
A neighbourhood osteria south of the Arno, off Florence's tourist map, making fresh pasta for locals.
Pa Lek Boat Noodle
A third-generation boat-noodle stall by an old Ayutthaya canal, still running on the same rich pork broth.
Pandeli
A blue-tiled Ottoman dining room above the Spice Bazaar, serving since 1901.
Parador de Carmona
A 14th-century Moorish fortress converted into a hotel, its vaulted stone courtyards looking out over the Carmona plain.
Prik-Yuak
A no-frills Phaya Thai neighbourhood kitchen where locals queue for home-style Thai curries.
Pulquería Las Duelistas
A century-old pulque hall in Colonia Centro, covered in painted murals and full of regulars.
Rastrello Boutique Hotel
A restored medieval palazzo hotel above Lake Trasimeno, inside the walls of the Umbrian hill town of Panicale.
Ravintola Nokka
A Michelin Green Star kitchen in a Katajanokka harbour warehouse, cooking sustainable Finnish food over an open fire.
Red Ruin Bar
A communist-kitsch dive bar under red fluorescent light, murals of Marx, Lenin and Stalin in party hats.
Restaurant Backas
A restored 200-year-old manor outside Helsinki, serving Arctic-influenced dishes across a parkland garden.
Restaurant Harald
A Viking-themed kitchen in the heart of Finland's oldest city, forest and sea flavours served with real production value.
Restaurant Khmissa
A family-run kitchen near Essaouira's fishing port, known for a slow-cooked fish casserole.
Riad Al Moussika
A restored 19th-century mansion turned intimate riad in the Riad Zitoun quarter, built around an open courtyard.
Rudas Thermal Bath
A working 16th-century Ottoman hammam under Gellért Hill, its octagonal pool lit through a star-pierced dome.
Russ & Daughters
A Lower East Side lox-and-herring institution since 1907, and one of Anthony Bourdain's favourite corners of "disappearing" Manhattan.
Sabrina's Haus
Twenty-two rooms on a private stretch of Aegean coast, reachable only by boat.
Salumi
Armandino Batali's cured-meat sandwich shop, called "a holy place" by Anthony Bourdain.
SENSATO Restaurant
A six-seat sushi counter in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, rated 4.9 from over 300 reviews, booking essential.
Shirube Shimokitazawa
An oden-and-shabu-shabu neighbourhood izakaya in Shimokitazawa, best in winter.
Sin Huat Eating House
A no-frills Geylang crab specialist Anthony Bourdain called out on No Reservations for its crab bee hoon.
Sobrio by Mezcal Speakeasy
A speakeasy behind an unmarked door in Centro, pouring small-batch mezcal to a mostly local crowd.
Széchenyi Thermal Bath
Europe's grandest spa palace, a Neo-baroque hull with outdoor pools that steam through the winter.
Szimpla Kert
The derelict factory that started Budapest's entire ruin bar scene in 2002 — now its most-visited one.
Taberna Águilas
A sherry-soaked Casco Antiguo bistro filled with locals rather than tourists.
Tacos Don Luis
A birria taquería pulling steaming, soup-soaked tacos from a colossal pot, fast and cheap.
Tertti Manor
A historic lakeside farmhouse hotel and restaurant growing its own produce, six rustic rooms outside Mikkeli.
The Chedi Al Bait
A restored heritage manor-house hotel inside Heart of Sharjah, its wind towers and courtyards shading the old town.
The House Cafe'
A laidback riverside coffee shop near Pai's walking street, more hammocks than menu boards.
The Roman Baths
Two thousand years of hot springs in the heart of the city named after them, green Roman water beneath Georgian stone.
Tonki
A Shōwa-era tonkatsu counter in Meguro, unchanged since 1939.
Tostévere
A one-menu chef's table inside a quiet Zona Centro courtyard, easy to walk past entirely.
Trattoria Pennestri
A modern Roman trattoria on the quiet Ostiense edge, doing gricia and pajata far from the tourist crowd.
Trattoria Trippa
A Milan trattoria built around offal, run for regulars rather than visitors.
Treehotel
Architect-designed tree rooms in the pine forest outside Harads, each one a different piece of architecture.
Trillby & Chadwick
A courtyard speakeasy off a Kruununhaka side street, pouring serious, literary-named cocktails in offbeat calm.
Tuzuri
An obanzai restaurant in a quiet Shimogyo backstreet, built around whatever's in season.
Umia
An elegant rooftop in the Essaouira medina with Atlantic views and Moroccan-French cooking.
Voltes Residences
A restored stone house inside Mesta's medieval walls, run by a host reviewers name by name.
Waterlooplein Market
The oldest flea market in the Netherlands — around 300 stalls of vintage, second-hand and genuinely strange finds.
Whitepod
Thermal geodesic pods on an Alpine shelf above Monthey, each framed around a valley view.
WHYs Nimman Cafe & Restaurant
A green, plant-filled food hub in Nimman stringing several small cafés and kitchens around one courtyard.
Wino
Half a dozen tables in Kallio, funk records and natural wine, priced well below kitchens twice its size.