Tagged: food-and-drink

The California Wine Region near Los Angeles: Buellton and Solvang

It’s so easy to get caught up in California’s larger, more famous wine regions that people often overlook the lesser-known areas with just as much hospitality and personality. The…

How to Spritz: Make and Enjoy Aperol Spritz, Campari Spritz, and More Varieties—the Italian Way

When golden hour takes hold in Milan, from Piazza del Duomo all the way to the lively Navigli canal district south of the centro storico, the well-heeled Milanese can be found spilling…

Is Milan Worth Visiting? Reasons to Linger in Italy’s Fashion Capital

Milan was once seen as a chilly northern city clouded in fog. Aside from the impressive and imposing 14th-century Duomo (pictured above), Milan’s treasures and attractions were less…

50 Things to Do in Sicily: The Italian Island’s Best Beaches, Palaces, and Food

Stirring landscapes, Greek ruins, great beaches, delicious street food, baroque towns, amazing art, decadent pastries—the Italian island of Sicily has just about everything you could…

Tipping in Italy: A Gratuities Guide for Hotels, Restaurants, Drinks, and Tours

Italy is one of the most popular vacation destinations—and deservedly so. Considering how much great art, food, and music Italy has given the world, it's only courteous to return the…

Alcohol-Free Vacations: How to Join the Sober Travel Trend

A high proportion of well-established vacation rituals seem to revolve around alcohol, from the preflight tipple in the airport lounge to the post-dinner nightcap at the hotel…

Eat Like a Local: The Best Cheap Food in Honolulu, Oahu

Updated March 2, 2023Want to impress Hawaiian locals? Tell them you went to one of these places on your own. Waikiki is full of crummy tourist grub and chain restaurants, but don't…

13 Can't-Miss Experiences in Japan

A vacation will fly by in a county as full of variety, excitement, and cultural riches as Japan is. This is particularly true in the nation's major cities, where you'll often feel as…

Travel Insurance at a Glance

If you're taking an expensive tour or cruise, or if you're buying a vacation with components that won't be refundable if things go wrong (such as a making deposit on a rental home),…

How to Avoid Motion Sickness on an Airplane

Motion sickness on an airplane is caused by mixed signals reaching your brain from your inner ear, which senses you are moving, and your eyes, which counter that you are in fact…

What to Do in St. Pete, the Florida City That Defies Florida Stereotypes

One of the joys of travel—and one of its imperatives, if you ask us—is finding exceptions to stereotypes. And when it comes to Florida, the Gulf Coast city of St. Petersburg is…

$500 for Oysters? How Tourists Can Avoid Big Overcharges at Restaurants

A beach restaurant on the Greek island of Mykonos (pictured above) has garnered a lot of negative attention this summer for allegedly charging tourists prices that make LaGuardia…

What to Do in Maui if You Don't Have Much Time

For a smallish island, Maui has wildly diverse ecosystems and communities—there’s a lot to see and experience. If you only have three days, concentrate on some of Maui’s most…

$27 for One Beer?! Officials Vow to Clamp Down on Out-of-Control Airport Prices

Charging $5 for a bottle of water or nearly $11 for a side of fries is bad enough. But $27 for a single beer is outrageous even by airport standards. When a passenger at New York…

Shuck Yeah! Plan a Bivalve-Based Road Trip Along the Maine Oyster Trail

Autumn in New England isn't just for leaf-peeping. It's also prime oyster-slurping season.  Many devotees of the bivalve find that oysters "taste best in fall as they store fat and…

Puerto Rico’s Splashy New Entertainment Complex Is Corporate but Cool

If you're the type of traveler who likes to explore local culture, the idea of a multimillion-dollar, "multisensory," "tech-first" entertainment complex with a corporate sponsor in its…

Stay in the Home of Maker’s Mark Whiskey on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail

The Samuels family of Nelson County, Kentucky, traces its whiskey-making lineage back eight generations to an ancestral distiller who supplied liquid courage to the troops in George…

Bloody Brilliant! An English Dictionary for Americans Traveling in Britain

Globalization and digital connectedness notwithstanding, the English spoken in England still differs significantly from the English spoken in the United States. Any American traveler…

Café Gourmand: Try the Mini Desserts, Coffee, and People-Watching at These 5 Paris Cafés

Got a taste for something sweet and refreshing after a day of sightseeing in Paris? Fortunately, many of the city’s famed cafés have the perfect solution: the café gourmand. These…

Tokyo Cafe’s Robot Waiters Operated Remotely by Staffers with Disabilities

We usually think of robots as taking jobs away from humans, but the opposite is true at a new cafe in Tokyo. Opened June 22 in the city's Nihonbashi area, Dawn Avatar Robot Cafe uses…

5 Earth-Friendly Products for Camping, Beach Days, and Road Trips

We’re strongly in favor of getting out there and exploring the world. But we want to do that in a way that ensures there’s still a world left to explore in the future. Here are five…

What to Expect at the Newly Built Resorts World Las Vegas, Opening in June

The ginormous Resorts World Las Vegas has set an official opening date. The 3,500-room, $4.3-billion behemoth will begin accepting guests on June 24. The property is situated within…

Finland Created a Kitchen Made Out of Ice—and It Works

As if a hotel built from more than 20,000 tons of ice and snow weren't impressive enough, the designers and igloo constructors of Lapland Hotels SnowVillage in northern Finland keep…

Try 10 Classic American Foods in the Places They Were Invented

Is there any meal as scrumptious as a burger with a side of crispy fries? Though those dishes and other classic American snacks, sandwiches, and desserts may taste like gifts from…

MAPS: Learn the Most Popular Tourist Souvenir In Countries Around the World

Based on the merchandise for sale at airports and hotel gift shops, we'd guess that the world's most popular souvenirs are T-shirts and refrigerator magnets. But a new illustrated map…