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.
Dining
Restaurants, bakeries, wine rooms and market counters covered with the dish to order.
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.
One Tray, Complete: Teishoku and the Geometry of the Japanese Lunch Set
Rice, soup, main, side, pickles — the teishoku set is ichiju-sansai made portable, the cheapest way to eat Japan's most balanced meal, and its logic explains the whole table.
Plat du Jour: France's Formule Midi and the Art of the Working Lunch
Entrée, plat, a glass of wine and coffee inside an hour — France's midday formule is the country's real daily cuisine, and it welcomes any traveler who arrives before one.
The Longest Meal: Inside the Italian Sunday Lunch at a Trattoria
Ragù simmered since morning, four courses and no hurry — the Sunday pranzo is Italy's most protected institution, and travelers can sit at its table.