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A Brasileira
A 1905 Chiado café where Fernando Pessoa spent his time — and still sits, in bronze, at a table on the terrace.
A Ginjinha
A standing-room-only cherry liqueur bar near Rossio, pouring ginjinha since 1840.
Afrigonia
A one-of-a-kind African-Chilean fusion kitchen in Puerto Natales, run by a couple pairing Zambian technique with Patagonian ingredients.
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.
Ash & Vine
A small farm-to-table dining room in Palm Springs' old plaza, nearly perfect-rated on very few reviews.
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.
Benbow Historic Inn
A 1926 Tudor-revival lodge on a lake south of the redwoods, once a stop for Highway 101 road-trippers.
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 de Flore
A Saint-Germain café since the 1880s whose regulars ran from Huysmans to Picasso — and whose most famous couple got a film named after it.
Café Gijón
An 1888 café on the Paseo de Recoletos that became the meeting place of Spain's post-war writers, with poets' tertulias at its tables.
Café Hoppe
A brown café on the Spui pouring drinks since 1670, one of Amsterdam's oldest working bars.
Café Royal Circle Bar
An 1863 oval bar under Doulton tile portraits of Victorian inventors, just off Register Street.
Café Tortoni
Buenos Aires' 1858 café on Avenida de Mayo, whose basement arts club drew Borges and Alfonsina Storni, and where Gardel was a regular.
Cağaloğlu Hamam
A marble Ottoman hammam built in 1741, still washing visitors under the same vaulted domes.
Callejón de Hamel
An alley of Afro-Cuban murals and scrap-metal sculpture in Cayo Hueso, with live rumba every Sunday from noon.
Carmel's Hidden Gem
A small corner café at Mission and Fifth serving seasonal coastal fare, genuinely named for how easy it is to miss.
Casa Adela
A no-frills Puerto Rican counter in Loisaida serving the same weekly specials to a devoted block of regulars.
Casa de la Trova
Santiago's house of trova on Calle Heredia, where the guitar-and-voice music of eastern Cuba is played most of the day.
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.
Chubby Fish
A 40-seat, walk-in-only shellfish house plating whatever the Carolina boats brought in that morning.
Çırağan Palace Kempinski
Sultan Abdülaziz's Bosphorus palace, rebuilt after a 1910 fire and now the only hotel in Istanbul with its own stretch of the strait.
Cittie of Yorke
A drinking house on this spot since about 1430, in a building from the 1920s — plus a Dylan Thomas poem that stayed lost for sixty years.
Clandestina
Cuba's first independent design shop, selling screen-printed shirts, bags and posters on a corner of Old Havana since 2015.
Coppelia
Havana's 'Cathedral of Ice Cream': a 1966 park pavilion that sells in pesos, offers one or two flavours, and shuts when supplies run out.
Corazón Contento Brunch
A corner café a few doors from Don Emelio, turning out weekend brunch, fresh pastries and strong coffee away from Viña's tourist strip.
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.
Deetjen's Big Sur Inn
A cluster of 1930s redwood cabins and a candlelit restaurant tucked into a canyon just off Highway One.
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.
Don Emelio Restaurante
A family-run neighborhood restaurant in Viña del Mar serving generous plates of Chilean home cooking to a mostly local crowd.
Doña Carmen's Pupuseria
A handful of reviews and a near-perfect rating for handmade Salvadoran pupusas on Sandy Boulevard.
EcoCamp Patagonia
Geodesic domes inside Torres del Paine itself, with the granite towers visible from camp.
Ediciones Vigía
A Matanzas press making books entirely by hand since 1985, in editions of 200 or fewer — collected by the British Library.
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.
El Pescador Fish Market
A counter-service fish market and café on La Jolla's Pearl Street, order the day's catch and eat on the patio.
Eliza Thompson House
An 1847 Greek-revival house on quiet West Jones Street, with a shaded carriage-house courtyard and a proper Savannah breakfast.
Emporium Thai
A Southern Thai kitchen in a quiet Westwood strip mall, known locally for its crab omelette.
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.
Fairmont Windsor Park
A ground-up rebuild of a 19th-century Jacobean-style manor on the edge of Windsor Great Park, reopened as a country-house hotel in 2022 after a four-year, roughly £200 million project.
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A no-website, no-reservations Guamanian burger joint in Beacon Hill, nothing on the menu over twenty dollars.
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.
Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at Sultanahmet
A neoclassical Ottoman prison two minutes from Hagia Sophia, converted into a hotel with the original cell block layout still traceable in its courtyard.
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.
Fusterlandia
A barrio on Havana's western edge that the artist José Fuster has been covering in mosaic since 1994 — his house first, then his neighbours'.
Gordon's Wine Bar
London's oldest wine bar, poured from a candlelit cellar under Villiers Street since 1890.
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.
Harry's Bar
Giuseppe Cipriani's 1931 bar by the San Marco waterfront, a Hemingway favourite and the place the Bellini was invented.
Henna Art Cafe
A rooftop café and small garden above the souk, mint tea and henna application done by hand.
Hoop and Grapes
A leaning late-seventeenth-century timber house that Historic England calls a type once common in London and now very rare.
Hotel Kimal
A quiet adobe hotel a few blocks from San Pedro's plaza, its garden courtyards and rustic-wood rooms built for the desert's cold, star-bright nights.
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.
Hotel Katerina Sarayı
A stone mansion from Kars's decades as a Russian imperial garrison town, now a hotel with a fire pit built for the snow.
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 Bodeguita del Medio
An Old Havana bodega turned bar, its walls covered in signatures — where Neruda and Nicolás Guillén drank, and Hemingway's famous mojito line may not be his.
La Camaronera
A working fish market on the edge of Little Havana where the day's catch becomes ceviche seconds after it's weighed.
La Canchánchara
A colonial house in Trinidad pouring the canchánchara — rum, honey and lime in a clay pot — often called Cuba's oldest cocktail.
La Colombina
A small art-filled bistro on Valparaíso's Paseo Yugoslavo, serving daily lunch plates and coffee among a clutter of vintage curios.
La Cueva
A former wine bar on Hidalgo street reborn as a candlelit cocktail and mezcal den.
La Guarida
A paladar at the top of a crumbling Centro Habana mansion — the building where Fresa y Chocolate was filmed.
La Negrita Cantina
Mérida's first bar, pouring since 1917 among vintage bottles and a crowd of regulars.
La Piojera
A hundred-year cantina in Barrio Yungay where the terremoto cocktail was born and locals still queue for it late into the night.
La Super-Rica Taqueria
A cash-only taco stand on Milpas Street that Julia Child was famously a regular at.
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.
Le Pavillon de la Reine
A 17th-century hôtel particulier tucked off Place des Vosges, built as the queen's own garden pavilion.
Les Maisons de Cappadoce
Cave houses in Uçhisar restored over two decades by a French architect, with a kitchen in nearly every one.
Liuzza's by the Track
A corner po-boy joint beside the Fair Grounds race track, where the fried oyster sandwich is a guarded neighborhood ritual.
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.
Mandarin Oriental Ritz, Madrid
The 1910 Ritz that Alfonso XIII personally commissioned after finding Madrid had nowhere grand enough for his wedding guests.
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.
McGillin's Olde Ale House
Philadelphia's oldest continuously operating tavern, pouring since 1860, two blocks from City Hall.
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.
Mr Thomas's Chop House
An 1867 chop house on Cross Street, still cooking for the same kind of lunch crowd it opened for.
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.
The Oberoi Udaivilas
A 2002-built resort on Lake Pichola's shore, styled after the domes and courtyards of the Mewar palaces across the water rather than converted from one.
Okonomiyaki Izakaya Gen
Okonomiyaki cooked at your seat alongside a full izakaya menu, just off Dotonbori.
The Old Arcade
A 1844 pub beside Cardiff's original covered arcade, now the city's best-known rugby local.
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.
Palacio de Valle
A Moorish-revival fantasy villa built 1913–1917 at the tip of Punta Gorda, now a restaurant on Cienfuegos bay.
Palacio Duhau - Park Hyatt Buenos Aires
A 1930s mansion built for one of Argentina's patrician ranching families on Avenida Alvear, joined by an underground wine cellar to a newer Park Hyatt tower next door.
Palazzo Daniele
A 19th-century Puglian aristocratic palazzo at the tip of Salento, converted by two brothers into a small art-filled guesthouse.
Restaurante Pan con Chancho
A slow-roasted pork sandwich institution set inside a small craft-beer hotel in Puerto Varas.
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.
Parador de Granada
The only hotel inside the Alhambra's walls, built into a 15th-century Franciscan monastery raised on the site of a Nasrid palace.
Parador de Lerma
The 17th-century ducal palace built by the Duke of Lerma on Lerma's main square, now a state-run Parador.
Peekytoe Provisions
A pint-sized Main Street seafood counter where the harbor crowd grabs fried clams and lobster rolls, away from the crowds heading up to Acadia.
Peumayén Ancestral Food
A Providencia house restaurant replaying Mapuche and Andean recipes with native Chilean ingredients most kitchens dropped generations ago.
Prik-Yuak
A no-frills Phaya Thai neighbourhood kitchen where locals queue for home-style Thai curries.
The Prospect of Whitby
Claims 1520 and the title of oldest riverside tavern. The building is a 1777 rebuild, and the date seems to have been invented in the 1950s.
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.
Restaurant Mañío
A family kitchen near the stilt-town of Chonchi serving curanto and fresh seafood from Chiloé's own waters, largely for a local crowd.
Riad Al Moussika
A restored 19th-century mansion turned intimate riad in the Riad Zitoun quarter, built around an open courtyard.
Rino's Place
Family-run East Boston dinner spot where the day's Italian menu is scribbled by hand and there's no reservation line to call.
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.
Schlosshotel Kronberg
Kaiserin Victoria's private castle in the Taunus hills, built as her widow's retirement home and still furnished with pieces from the family's own collection.
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.
Tabard Inn
Washington's oldest continuously operating hotel, a 1922 brick rowhouse inn in Dupont Circle with a fireplace restaurant that draws its own quiet local following.
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.
Taj Lake Palace
An 18th-century white-marble palace that occupies its own island on Lake Pichola, reachable only by boat.
Te Moana
A Rapa Nui restaurant on Hanga Roa's main street where islanders gather for fresh tuna and ceviche as the Pacific breeze rolls in at dusk.
Tertti Manor
A historic lakeside farmhouse hotel and restaurant growing its own produce, six rustic rooms outside Mikkeli.
The Britannia Inn
A roughly 500-year-old whitewashed inn in Elterwater, with the Langdale fells rising off its doorstep.
The Chedi Al Bait
A restored heritage manor-house hotel inside Heart of Sharjah, its wind towers and courtyards shading the old town.
The Feathered Nest Country Inn
A cream-stone Cotswolds inn in a one-street hamlet, with a kitchen well ahead of its size.
The George Inn
The closest thing to a straight answer on London's oldest pub: a 1677 rebuild on a site mapped in 1542, and the last galleried coaching inn in the city.
The Godolphin
A Victorian seafront hotel and pub in Marazion, facing St Michael's Mount across the bay.
The Grapes
One room wide, with a veranda over the Thames, no straight floor, and a real claim to be the tavern Dickens wrote into Our Mutual Friend.
The House Cafe'
A laidback riverside coffee shop near Pai's walking street, more hammocks than menu boards.
The Olde Wine Shades
A 1663 merchant's house with a bricked-up river tunnel in the wall and the City's strongest claim to have outlived the Great Fire.
The Pot Still
A no-frills Hope Street whisky bar with well over a thousand bottles on the gantry.
The Roman Baths
Two thousand years of hot springs in the heart of the city named after them, green Roman water beneath Georgian stone.
The Seven Stars
The frontage says 1602. The building is more like the 1680s — and the gap between those two numbers is the whole story of old London pubs.
The Spaniards Inn
A sixteenth-century inn on the edge of Hampstead Heath, with a surviving toll house opposite that still pinches the road to a single lane.
The Star Inn
A thatched, Michelin-starred pub in a one-street North Yorkshire village.
The Trout Inn
An ivy-clad Thames-side pub by Godstow Lock, with peacocks in the garden and a weir out front.
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.
Umaid Bhawan Palace
A 1943 Art-Deco palace built for the Jodhpur royal family, who still live in one wing while the rest operates as a Taj hotel.
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.
White Horse Tavern
An 1880 West Village bar that went from longshoremen to writers in the 1950s — Dylan Thomas, James Baldwin, Jane Jacobs, Norman Mailer.
White Horse Tavern
A gambrel-roofed 1673 tavern that claims the title of America's oldest — low-beamed rooms serving upscale New England fare.
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.
Yamo
A four-stool, cash-only Burmese counter in the Mission, built around one order of rice noodles.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Rebuilt in 1667, the year after the Great Fire, and the birthplace of London's most durable invented pub legend.
Ye Olde Mitre
Founded in 1546 for a bishop's servants, housed in a building from about 1773, down an alley that was legally part of Cambridgeshire.