Gourmet Flavours · 2026
The best places to eat in the world
Chosen by the writers who live there: the tables, markets, bars and bakeries worth planning a trip around.
Editorial Highlights
Our writers’ strongest tables, worldwide
What to eat, see and drink east of the Las Vegas StripMuseums, Thai food, beer halls and 24-hour dive bars a few minutes behind the resort towers, with 2026 hours and door rules.
Walking Kuromon Market and Nipponbashi in OsakaOne walk takes in the morning tuna counters, the kitchenware arcade, a moss-covered Fudo and a kilometre of neon shops.
Eating, drinking and cycling Avenida Huayacán in CancunA 2010s Cancun corridor with a free cycle path down its length, Yucatecan botana plates, live-fire cooking and one small hotel.
Four December hours through Manchester's wine barsFour hours of city wine bars, starting at the self-pour taps on Fountain Street and finishing with natural wine on the canal in Ancoats.
Where to shop, eat and stay in Mercury, St Julian'sThe Mercury quarter of St Julian's at walking pace: what to see, what it costs to book, the free piazza at street level and the terrace on floor 34.
Walking Old Bakery Street and Valletta's Carmelite quarterTriq il-Fran climbs from the bastions up to the Carmelite dome, and the balconies, cellars and palace stays along it will take you a full day.
Walking New Orleans' Irish Channel, church to breweryYou walk two rival parish churches, a 1931 barroom, 41 taps and the vintage racks of Magazine Street, in whatever order the opening hours allow.
Eating and walking Osaka's Tsuruhashi and Ikuno KoreatownA 1993 Korean gate, six arcades holding 800 shops, kimchi tubs stacked by the dozen and the grill house credited with inventing dipped yakiniku. Walked in order, with the hours and the prices.
Galluzzo, the Florence village below a Carthusian monasteryGalluzzo rewards a plan: the Certosa opens only on its guided tour slots, and the lampredotto kiosk on the main square is where you eat.
Clarke Quay in Singapore from Afternoon to the Night CruiseWhat the five godown blocks on the Singapore River hold now: a coffee at noon, and the last bumboat out at 22:30.
Walking Merchants Street and Is-Suq tal-Belt in VallettaWhat opens when along Valletta's Merchants Street: the 1861 market hall, the morning stalls, and the two bookings you should make before you travel.
Walking Bartók Béla Boulevard in BudapestOne Buda tram street has a cave church in the cliff, three galleries, a 1911 coffee house and a Polish bookshop bar with room for six.
How to spend a day and night on Cancún's Avenida YaxchilánWhere to eat, what to see and how late the music runs on downtown Cancún's main avenue.
Jaimanitas, the Havana barrio Fuster covered in mosaicJosé Fuster's tiled street grew out of the fishing shore beside it, and the marina and the seafood decks over the river are next door. One walk takes them in that order.
Walking Beuel, Bonn's right bank from river to EnnertBonn's right bank has a double church from 1151, a skywalk over a disused quarry, a one-star kitchen and the washerwomen who invented Weiberfastnacht.
Florence's Santissima Annunziata quarter on footFra Angelico's painted cells, an Etruscan chimera and a rooftop coffee with Brunelleschi's dome in view, all a few streets from the one Renaissance square Florence planned on purpose.
Features
Long reads, with the experiences you can book
Barcelona by Bite: The Tapas, Markets and Kitchens Worth the TripA market that's been trading since 1217, a vermouth workshop that sends you home with your own bottle, and the paella class that actually teaches you something — Barcelona's food scene rewards showing up hungry and curious.By Mara OliveiraNaples on a Plate: Pizza, Street Food and the Tables That Made a CityThis is the city pizza actually comes from — and the street food scene that keeps locals fed between meals is just as worth the trip as the pizzerias with the queues.By Mara OliveiraLisbon's Sweet and Salt: Custard, Seafood and the Markets of the TagusA custard tart recipe that's been a guarded secret since 1837, a market that's literally half of a 19th-century building, and the seafood that explains why Lisbon eats the way it does.By Mara Oliveira