Best destinations for food

Paris is only the opening act — wine country, the Alps, and two coastlines.

The benchmark for food, history, and beauty.

Extraordinary food, culture, and cities. Nothing quite prepares you for it.

Mexico City is world-class. Add the coast, ruins, and food culture.

Food, beaches, and three or four cities that each justify the trip.

The complete package for warm-climate travel.

Ancient history and hypermodern cities at a scale that's hard to grasp until you're there.

The best value city in Western Europe.

The best two days you can spend between flights — or on their own.

Seoul alone justifies the flight — food, nightlife, and mountains inside the city.

Buenos Aires has the best steakhouses and nightlife in South America.

Overwhelming, beautiful, and utterly unlike anywhere else.

The most underrated food trip in Southeast Asia.

Istanbul alone is worth the trip. Add Cappadocia, the coast, and ancient ruins.

The best food in Southeast Asia, remarkable scenery, a long coastline.

Ruins in the morning, a swim by noon, taverna until dark.

Best street food in the world, dramatic gorges, deeply welcoming culture.

A continent pretending to be a country — cities, deserts, and the best national parks anywhere.

Vast, varied, relaxed. Reef, Sydney, and proper wilderness in one.

Warm, affordable, endlessly deep — beach, wellness, and culture in one place.

Dubrovnik, the Adriatic coast, ancient cities. Compact and beautiful.

Prague earns the crowds. The rest of the country is the bonus.

Dubai and Abu Dhabi: superlatives, desert, and a stopover worth a few days of its own.

Extraordinary food, wine, hospitality, mountains, and old cities — all cheap.

Medellin is one of the most exciting cities in the world right now.

Serious cities, river valleys, and the Alps in the south.

Budapest is the best-value great city in Europe.

Medinas, desert, mountains, and coast — sensory and varied.

Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley, Lima's food scene, and the Amazon.

Europe's best-value city break, with the history to match.

Atlantic beaches, excellent food and wine, slow pace.

Cape Town, safari, and wine country in one self-drive trip.