World Cuisine
73 places under World Cuisine — all tried, all liked, all paid for ourselves.
Taverna 37
South of Athens, in Vouliagmeni, in the Four Seasons Astir Palace's own cove: Taverna 37. It is nothing like the classic hotel restaurant; right on At…
Onyx
Near the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Onyx is a strikingly elegant restaurant that brings French gastronomy together with the techniques and flavours …
Le Colimaçon
Wandering around the Marais in Paris, we were after somewhere we could eat classic French food — not done up, just a warm, unpretentious bistro. Le Co…
Osaka
One of Lima's best-known Nikkei restaurants, Osaka is among the most successful expressions of an approach that brings Japanese technique together wit…
The Pelican
The gastropub concept has spread quickly in London in recent years, led by the Public House group. Unlike the simple, quick snacks we're used to in cl…
Casa Mono
Casa Mono is a tapas restaurant serving Spanish food in New York. Tapas — a range of small hot and cold plates — is a Spanish classic. Casa Mono's suc…
Papaioannou
Athens has become a favourite destination for Turkish travellers lately, and the interest has started to show up in both local and international press…
Em Sherif
Em Sherif is one of the best global ambassadors of Lebanese cooking. A few months ago it opened its eighth branch outside Beirut, inside Tersane İstan…
Ayaspaşa Rus Lokantası
Ayaspaşa Russian Restaurant has been welcoming guests in Taksim Gümüşsuyu since 1943. The historic texture takes you in as soon as you walk through th…
Barbouni
Kos is a destination you can reach comfortably from Bodrum on a thirty-minute ferry. It isn't the most enjoyable of the Greek islands, but it still of…
L'Odas
L'Odas sits right beside Notre-Dame cathedral in Rouen, France. Michelin-starred, it offers not only a wonderful menu but a gastronomic experience fro…
Afsona
Uzbek food resembles ours quite closely. Its two most famous dishes are Uzbek mantı and pilaf. The mantı is a little like Chinese dumplings, and beyon…
Kol
Kol is a chef's restaurant opened in London's Mayfair in 2020 by the Mexican chef Santiago Lastra. Experienced through a tasting menu, Kol presents ex…
Majka
Majka, which opened about three weeks ago in Moda, is a representative of Balkan cooking. A lovely room has been created on the upper floor of Rita Mo…
Mezkla
Mezkla is a Mexican restaurant that opened recently in Akatlar. It's a place whose name we've been hearing a lot lately, for both atmosphere and flavo…
Vinitus
Say Barcelona and the first places that come to mind are tapas bars — usually lovely rooms where you can try different flavours in small plates. There…
Lefteris o Politis
Lefteris o Politis, with roots going back to 1951, is one of Athens' most deeply rooted souvlaki shops. Founded by Lefteris Usta, a migrant from Istan…
Balthazar
Balthazar has been serving since 1973 beside Athens' popular Kolonaki district, in a delightful neo-classical building with 19th-century origins. Its …
A Figueira Rubaiyat
A Figueira Rubaiyat must be the most famous restaurant in São Paulo, Brazil's largest city. Set in a garden where the branches of a hundred-year-old f…
Sunset Taverna
Santorini's most popular area is Oia, in the north of the island. Built on the clifftop like the whole western side, Oia is the island's most popular …
Roka
Santorini is one of the most special of the Greek islands. Formed by a volcanic eruption, its western shore offers a magnificent view, with settlement…
Mayan Cocktail & Food
Mayan, in Datça's Kairos marina, serves Mexican food and stands out for its cocktails. In terms of location, Kairos marina may be the best address in …
Culinarium
Culinarium is a very pleasant place with a wonderful terrace, two minutes' walk from the centre of Datça. The terrace holds six or seven tables — smal…
Manhatta
Manhatta is a restaurant on the 60th floor of a skyscraper in Downtown New York, serving examples of American cooking. Being on the 60th floor, it has…
Batard
Batard has been welcoming guests in Bomonti since 2019 without compromising on quality. The interior recalls a Paris restaurant, but the eclectic menu…
Balthazar
Balthazar is a French restaurant in New York's popular Soho that has become a classic since it opened in 1997, never compromising on quality. Its larg…
Katz's Delicatessen
Katz's Deli, serving since it was founded in 1888, is a legendary New York institution. It's famous for its pastrami (cured meat usually made from bee…
Zurbaran
Zurbaran is a popular place in Kolonaki — the closest thing Athens has to Nişantaşı — serving good examples of world cuisine. The menu runs from sushi…
Artemis Fish Tavern
Artemis Tavern is a wonderful fish restaurant east of Athens, out beyond the airport. You reach it by turning off the main road onto a dirt track that…
Steak and Wine Bar
Serbian cooking has a menu that mixes Italian and Turkish. That mix produces options very well suited to the Turkish palate. Burrata, cold cuts, börek…
Lyon
Lyon is above all famous for its gastronomy, but it offers more than that. Lyon is a smaller but better version of Paris, as some call it. The Rhône r…
Daniel et Denise
Daniel et Denise is a bouchon that has become one of Lyon's landmarks, operating across three sites. Chef Joseph Viola has appeared in the Michelin gu…
Le Poêlon d'Or
With hundreds of bouchons in Lyon, choosing is difficult, so it pays to go on recommendations. Le Poêlon d'Or, which we tried on someone's advice, is …
Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse
Paul Bocuse holds such an important place in Lyon's cooking that the city's gastronomic market, Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse, honours his name. It's…
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
Lyon is France's gastronomic capital — far calmer and more enjoyable than Paris, and a wonderful city for seeing different sides of French cooking. We…
Khedi
Khedi restaurant, on the terrace of the Khedi hotel in Tbilisi, serves Georgian cooking with an inventive sensibility. Khedi means 'view' in Georgian,…
Le Marché
Le Marché is a likeable French restaurant that opened about two months ago in the St Germain district of Paris. It came about when a husband and wife …
Shemomechama
Tbilisi is a very enjoyable city. Georgian cooking offers different versions of flavours we know well, along with a strong wine culture. Georgians cla…
Turkish Airlines CIP Lounge
Turkish Airlines' CIP lounge at Istanbul Airport is a gourmet paradise. The mantı may be the best in Istanbul, and the pides are properly crisp. Diffe…
Agounistra
Corfu, in the Ionian Sea between Greece and Italy, has a cuisine that has taken influences from both countries. Argyrades, a village in the south of t…
MSA'nın Restoranı
The Culinary Arts Academy (MSA) has been a lifeline for Turkish cooking through the chefs it has trained over the years. Its restaurant sits inside th…
Los Altos
Los Altos is a Mexican restaurant on the terrace floor of a building right beside Galatasaray Lisesi. With a magnificent view, we drank the best marga…
Estimar
Estimar is a great restaurant for seafood lovers, serving its clients in two locations in both Barcelona and Madrid. The restaurant in Barcelona is lo…
Ferida
Ferida, which began life at Fişekhane with a menu leaning Bosnian, opened its Bağdat Caddesi branch two weeks ago. The new place on Noter Sokak is air…
Xiringuito Escribà
When I asked the locals of Barcelona where to eat the best Paella, they suggested Escriba. Escriba is in a great spot on the beach of Barcelona, in …
Mercat de la Boqueria
Mercat della Boqueria is a food market on Barcelona's famous street, La Rambla. You can buy all kinds of delicatessen, fresh seafood, vegetables, frui…
El Nacional
El Nacional in Barcelona is a spacious venue with high ceilings, reserved for private areas, serving grilled meat, Spanish seafood and tapas. You have…
Tehroon
Iranian food is both close to ours and different from it. Among its many rice dishes, saffron rice is the best known. Tehroon in Maslak, with its Iran…
Alma
Peruvian cuisine is the shining star of recent years. With the influence of the Japanese minority in the country, the mix of Far East and South Americ…
La Charcuteria
La Charcuteria stands out among the many options inside 42 Maslak for its charcuterie. Alongside a wide range of cured meats, the menu includes salads…
Sanayi313
Sanayi 313 has led the slow transformation of the Maslak auto industrial estate ever since it opened there in 2015. Sanayi 313 is more than a restaura…
Le Villaret
Le Villaret is aerving great examples of French couisine under chef Olivier Gaslain since 1992. A good option in the competitive Parisian restaurant s…
Café de La Paix
Café de la Paix, with a history going back to 1862, is one of the classic addresses of Paris. In the Opera district, it's a classic example of good Fr…
Ysabel
Ysabel stands out in the competition on Suadiye's popular Plajyolu Sokak. With a kitchen serving good examples of world cuisine and an ambitious bar, …
Cookshop Arka Bahçe Villa
Etiler's Tepecik Yolu has become considerably livelier this summer with the back-to-back openings of Delicatessen and Cookshop Arka Bahçe Villa. With …
Neni Brasserie
Neni is a charming brasserie with French echoes in Caddebostan. The menu is accomplished, the food good, the service team experienced and the decorati…
George WPA
George WPA is a cosy French brasserie in the Museum Quarter of Amsterdam. In good weather it's worth waiting for a table in the pleasant outdoor seati…
Cross Fingers
The shopping area inside Etiler Alkent has turned into a small gourmet spot over the last three years. Tike, Du Lupo Trattoria and Cross Fingers have …
Casa José
Being next to the Atlantic, Casablanca offers an excellent choice of seafood. Casa José adds a Spanish perspective to that fresh seafood. Everything w…
Franck Bistro
Franck Bistro is one of Istanbul's best-kept secrets. A French chef hosts just one group each evening. Whether you're two or ten, he cooks a menu made…
La Villa Bleue
Tunisian cooking is a magnificent mix of North African and French. Spiced, sauced and leaning heavily on seafood. La Villa Bleue, in the UNESCO-protec…
Time Out Market Dubai
Time Out Market Dubai is a high-level food court home to seventeen different restaurants. Organised by the world-famous Time Out magazine, it sits rig…
Tzitzikas kai Mermigas
On the other side of the Aegean the flavours are both familiar and different. Tzitzikas kai Mermigas, near Syntagma Square — Athens' equivalent of Tak…
Sumakh
Sumakh is one of the right addresses for discovering Azerbaijani cooking in Baku. We started with düşbərə soup, went on to xəngəl (similar to mantı) a…
QonaQ
In this period when restaurants are closed in Turkey, QonaQ in Baku felt like medicine. We had a lovely evening with good fresh meze, delicious kebabs…
Rosi's Sonnbergstube
Kitzbühel, a favourite ski resort, pleases its visitors with wonderful food too. The place that impressed us most in the area was Rosi's, about twenty…
Figlmüller
There's usually a queue outside Figlmüller, the most famous schnitzel house in Vienna, the schnitzel's homeland. They serve Wiener schnitzel in both v…
Qədim Qəbələ
Meat never disappoints in Baku. Lamb of a freshness and flavour you can't find in big cities in Turkey is cooked in pomegranate sauce and served magni…
Beearif
With restaurants closed in Turkey, we wanted to try different flavours on our trip to Baku. On our first evening we tried Azerbaijani dishes and were …
Restaurant Chez Sleh
A place in Tunis where you can find good seafood. The olives, pepper paste and tuna starter served to begin were wonderful. The red mullet we had as a…
San Sebastián
Welcome, October. The ideal season for food lovers to visit San Sebastián.…
Frontière
Frontière is Bebek's ambitious new arrival. Serving examples of French and Italian cooking, it hasn't even been open a month. With an ambitious menu l…
Rustyfork
Rustyfork is one of Istanbul's representatives of Tex-Mex cooking. From this cuisine, born in the American South with Mexican influences, chicken wing…
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Our picks: Franck Bistro (Kadıköy), Figlmüller (Vienna), Casa José (Casablanca). 73 places in total — every one tried by us, every bill paid by us.
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