Food and drink

Food and drink

Melbourne laneways

Melbourne, Victoria

Melbourne's lanes and arcades are full of street art (Hosier Lane), cafés, bars and restaurants; it's Australia's coffee capital.

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Lygon Street, Carlton

Carlton, Victoria

Melbourne's 'Little Italy', the heart of the city's Italian community since the 1950s.

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Le Mandrać, Volosko

Opatija, Primorje-Gorski Kotar

A highly regarded restaurant on the little fishing harbour (mandrać) of Volosko, a picturesque village just along the coast from Opatija that has bec…

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Paseo El Carmen, Santa Tecla

Santa Tecla, La Libertad

Santa Tecla, a modern city on the edge of San Salvador, has turned its historic street, the Paseo El Carmen, into a pedestrian zone of cafés, bars, r…

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Hofbräuhaus, Munich

Munich, Bavaria

The world's most famous beer hall, brewing beer for the Bavarian royal court since 1589 and on this site since 1607.

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Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong

Central, Central and Western

A small, steep, L-shaped street and the lanes around it in Central, packed with bars, clubs and restaurants serving food from all over the world, fro…

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Gus O'Connor's pub, Doolin

Clare

Doolin, a small village on the County Clare coast, is the traditional music capital of Ireland, and Gus O'Connor's is its most famous pub, serving pi…

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Dōtonbori, Osaka

Osaka, Ōsaka

Osaka's lively entertainment street along a canal, famous for giant neon signs, including the Glico running man, and for street food: takoyaki (octop…

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Tsukiji Outer Market, Tokyo

Tokyo

The busy market streets left behind when Tokyo's wholesale fish market moved to Toyosu, packed with stalls selling fresh sushi, grilled seafood, tama…

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The Cray Pot, Jackson Bay

West Coast

A seafood restaurant in a little building at the very end of the road in South Westland, beside the fishing wharf at Jackson Bay.

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Lima's food scene and historic centre

Lima, Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima

Lima is one of the great food cities of the world: eat ceviche at a cevichería, try Nikkei and Chifa cuisine, and visit the Surquillo market.

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Hawker centres of Singapore

Tanjong Pagar, Central Singapore

Singapore's hawker culture is UNESCO-listed: open-air food courts with dozens of stalls serving cheap, excellent local dishes like Hainanese chicken …

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Durban beachfront and curry

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

Durban has a long beachfront promenade, the Golden Mile, warm Indian Ocean surf, and a large Indian community.

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Gwangjang Market, Seoul

Jongno-gu, Seoul

One of the oldest and largest traditional markets in Korea, opened in 1905, with rows of food stalls where you sit on benches to eat bindaetteok (mun…

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Pintxos bars in the Parte Vieja, San Sebastián

Donostia-San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa

San Sebastián's old town is packed with bars whose counters are piled with pintxos, the Basque version of tapas: small works of art on bread or skewe…

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Night markets of Taiwan

Songshan District, Taipei

Taiwan is famous for its night markets, crowded with food stalls.

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Yaowarat Road (Chinatown), Bangkok

Bangkok

Bangkok's Chinatown comes alive at night, when Yaowarat Road's neon signs light up and street-food stalls fill the pavements.

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Kebapçı İskender, Bursa

Bursa

The restaurant where İskender kebab was invented, run by the same family since 1867.

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The Caddy Mann, Jedburgh

Jedburgh, Scottish Borders

An award-winning, family-run restaurant in the Scottish Borders countryside, known for game and local produce such as venison, lamb and beef, with a …

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King Charles House, Worcester

Worcester, Worcestershire

A Grade II* listed timber-framed house built in 1577, now a pub and restaurant.

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Ristorante Paradiso, Kirkland

Kirkland, Washington

A long-running, family-owned Italian restaurant in downtown Kirkland on the shore of Lake Washington, run by a chef-owner from Sardinia.