Gastro Obscura's Top 20 Places to Eat and Drink

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 on 2021.10.13
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19 Places
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"Volcanic pizza, a treetop restaurant, and other editor picks." By Alex Mayyasi, Editor of Gastro Obscura

Pacaya

Volcano · San Vicente Pacaya

"For this chef, an active volcano is his oven."

David garcía mansilla

Indian Pueblo Kitchen

Native American restaurant · Albuquerque

"Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center."

CBOWEN65

Stadshuskällaren

Swedish restaurant · Riddarshomen

"Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall."

Courtesy of the Stadshuskällaren

Jones Bar-B-Q Diner

Barbecue restaurant · Marianna

"One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home."

KING_LLR

Chùa Giác Minh

Buddhist temple · East Palo Alto

"An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat."

KU.BEE

"Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide."

MEET_MY_MEAT

El Vilsito

Taco restaurant · Narvarte Poniente

"By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos."

SAM O'BRIEN/ATLAS OBSCURA

"An English brewery transported to North Korea."

MARCUS MCFARLAND/KORYO TOURS

Delaware Delicacies Smoke House

Restaurant · Delaware County

"At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself."

LOCALASFARRELL

Wattana Panich Beef Broth

Thai restaurant · Watthana Khwaeng

"At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years."

ALEXYQJ

"A Caribbean chef recreates his enslaved great-great-grandmother's dishes inside the home she purchased after buying her freedom."

BRUNOMICHAUXVIGNES

"Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam."

CONTESSANALLY

Harukoro Ainu Restaurant

Izakaya restaurant · Hyakunincho

"Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan."

IRWIN WONG FOR GASTRO OBSCURA

Bale Mountains National Park

National park · Bale

"An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants."

JESSIKASOORS

Bålyveien 48

Vest-Agder

"The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway."

ADVENTUROUSMEE

3259 E 95th St

Building · Lake Calumet Industrial District

"Calumet Fisheries: One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft." "

ERIC ALLIX ROGERS

ATLAS

Bar · Singapore

"A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin."

EK YAP AND ATLAS

Tree pod

Restaurant

COURTESY SONEVA KIRI RESORT

McDonald's Taupo

Fast food restaurant · Taupo District

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