The Real Cost of a Chef's Tasting Menu
What a chef's tasting menu really costs: ticket prices, service charges, pairings and deposit rules at Eleven Madison Park and Alinea, with practical ways to keep the total down.
Dining
Where to eat on the road: family dining rooms, market counters, bakeries, wine rooms and the occasional tasting menu. Entries give the dish justifying the stop, cost per person, booking lead time, closing days and the detour distance involved. For travelers deciding whether a meal is worth an hour of driving.
Restaurants, bakeries, wine rooms and market counters covered with the dish to order.
Best Hotel Bars: The Quiet Comeback of the Classic Hotel Bar
Lobbies have become the most reliable cocktail seats in town — and the reasons say a lot about how travelers drink now.
Dining Etiquette Around the World: A Traveler's Primer
Chopstick taboos, tipping norms, and the small gestures that tell a room you belong at the table.
Tipping Customs by Country: How Much to Leave and When It's Included
The same gesture reads as generosity in one country and an insult in another. Here is how to tell which table you are sitting at.
Restaurant Dress Codes Around the World: What to Pack and When It Actually Matters
A tasting menu in Tokyo, a trattoria in Rome, and a steakhouse in New Orleans each carry a different unspoken rulebook, and the wrong outfit rarely ruins the meal but can change the room.
DOP, IGP, STG: What Europe's Food Labels Promise a Traveler at the Table
Three European Union marks appear on menus, rinds and market stalls, and they answer three different questions — where a food was made, how much of it was made there, and whether only the method is protected.