News that moves the dates of a food trip: festival and fair calendars, harvest timing shifted by weather, market hall renovations, seasonal restaurant closures, transport disruption and entry rule changes. Reports carry the dates and the places affected. For readers holding a booking that depends on a season.
Dates and disruptions for food trips.
Routine U.S. passport renewal runs four to six weeks and expedited service two to three, per the State Department’s January 2026 update — and neither figure includes mail time, which can add up to two weeks in each direction.
Crowding, credit-card entry and day passes have redrawn the line between the lounge and the terminal. Here is what that means for the traveler deciding whether the door is still worth walking through.
The day-tripper charge now covers 54 days including every summer weekend, but overnight guests — the ones eating at the bacari — follow different rules.
Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Pittsburgh join a new regional Michelin edition, with inspectors dining anonymously now and the first stars due in 2027.
The region's official 2026 picking calendar opens mid-August — on course to beat the previous record set in 2020, per the trade press and the CIVC's dates.