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.

A long weekend in Copenhagen — design, cycling, and new-Nordic food.

One of the great dense cities — skyline, dim sum, and hiking trails minutes from the towers.

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.

Italy’s most glamorous stretch of coast — pastel villages stacked above the sea, lemons, and long lunches.

Canals, beer, and Flemish art, all an easy train ride apart.

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

Europe’s sunny western edge — Lisbon’s hills, Porto’s port, Algarve cliffs, and the best value in the west.

Italy at its most layered and intense — Greek temples, Baroque towns, street food, and a live volcano.

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

The template for the good life — Renaissance cities, cypress hills, and the best wine roads in Italy.

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.

A handful of islands where the landscapes and the ocean genuinely earn the flight.

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

Two coasts on one small island — calm Caribbean west, wild Atlantic east — with the best rum in the world.

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

The good life, distilled — lavender, hilltop villages, Roman ruins, and rosé under the plane trees.

One small island, two countries — Dutch nightlife on one side, French cooking on the other.

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.

The most photographed view in Greece — a drowned volcano rim of white villages above a blue caldera.

The Spice Island — nutmeg, a genuinely lovely harbour capital, and no crowds.

Two islands in one — a rainforest volcano on the left wing, beaches on the right.

The most characterful island in the Caribbean — and the one that asks a little more of you.

A sun-baked limestone island with more history per square mile than almost anywhere.

France in the tropics — rum distilleries, a volcano, and food that takes itself seriously.

A whole country where mountains drop straight into the Adriatic.

The Caribbean with a US plug socket — old-city romance, rainforest, and a bioluminescent bay.

Alps, coast, and a capital you can cross on foot — all in one small country.

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

A French village with superyachts parked outside — the Caribbean’s most expensive small island.

The Caribbean’s biggest party and its best birding — on two islands that share nothing but a flag.

Three islands, one national park, and no passport needed if you hold a US one.

The classic wind-down after a Tanzanian safari — beaches, spice, and a Swahili trading city.

The cheapest stretch of Mediterranean coast left in Europe — for now.

The dry, breezy Caribbean island that sits below the hurricane belt — sunshine you can actually bank on.

Green volcanic islands in the mid-Atlantic, half-empty and gloriously weird.

East meets West in one small, absurdly cheap country layered with living history.

Seven Mile Beach, world-class diving, and the smoothest logistics in the Caribbean — at a price.

A 4,000km country of deserts, wine valleys, lakes, and southern fjords.

A country-sized Greek island — Europe’s oldest civilisation, pink-sand lagoons, and a mountainous wild south.

Dependable Mediterranean warmth, ancient mosaics, and cool mountain wine villages on one easy island.

A steep, green volcanic island in the Atlantic — spring-like all year and built for walkers.

Far more than package beaches — turquoise coves, a UNESCO mountain range, and one of the Med’s best cities.

A resort island that actually has an interior worth leaving the beach for.

The Mediterranean’s best beaches, wrapped around a wild, ancient interior most visitors never see.

Thirty-three beaches, no high-rises, and not much else — deliberately.

A mountain range in the sea — France’s wildest island, where the Alps meet Caribbean-clear water.

The most characterful of the Dutch ABC islands — a candy-coloured capital, below the hurricane belt, over great diving.

A medieval old town wired to one of the most digital states on earth.

The slowest, gentlest country in Southeast Asia, and the better for it.

A polished, compact stopover built almost entirely around Doha.

The calm, safe, well-off corner of South America — beef, wine, and empty Atlantic beaches.

The Silk Road made real — turquoise-tiled cities that look like nowhere else, at prices that barely register.

The Indian Ocean’s answer to Hawaii — an active volcano, roadless canyons, and world-class hiking, on French soil.

The Balkans’ best night out — grilled meat, rakija, and river clubs, in Europe’s most underrated capital.