Gastro Obscura's Top 20 Places to Eat and Drink
Pacaya
Volcano · San Vicente Pacaya
"For this chef, an active volcano is his oven."
Indian Pueblo Kitchen
Native American restaurant · Albuquerque
"Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center."
Stadshuskällaren
Swedish restaurant · Riddarshomen
"Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall."
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."
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."
The Rock Restaurant Zanzibar
Seafood restaurant
"Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide."
El Vilsito
Taco restaurant · Narvarte Poniente
"By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquerĂa serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos."
Taedonggang Beer Brewery Bar
Permanently Closed
"An English brewery transported to North Korea."
Delaware Delicacies Smoke House
Permanently Closed
"At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself."
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."
"A Caribbean chef recreates his enslaved great-great-grandmother's dishes inside the home she purchased after buying her freedom."
Armenian Monastery Mechitarist
Monastery · Lido
"Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam."
Harukoro Ainu Restaurant
Izakaya restaurant · Hyakunincho
"Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan."
Bale Mountains National Park
National park · Bale
"An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants."
BĂĄlyveien 48
Vest-Agder
"The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway."
3259 E 95th St
Building · Lake Calumet Industrial District
"Calumet Fisheries: One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft." "
ATLAS
Bar · Singapore
"A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin."