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Best Food & Drink Destinations in Europe

120 city guides · 3-day food & drink itineraries

3-day city guides built around local cuisine, street food, markets and dining culture.

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🇹🇷 Turkey

Adana

The birthplace of the Adana kebab, şalgam suyu, bici bici ice and liver kebab…

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🇳🇱 Netherlands

Amsterdam

Market stalls in De Pijp, colonial-era rijsttafel feasts, jenever tasting rooms and the best broodje…

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🇦🇩 Andorra

Andorra La Vella

Trinxat, cargols a la llauna and duty-free wine cellars between the Valira rivers at 1,023m…

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🇹🇷 Turkey

Ankara

Ankara tava and Bursa-style döner, the copper alleys and spice cellars of Ulus, tandır bread from st…

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🇹🇷 Turkey

Antalya

Tahini-drenched bean salad, charcoal-grilled Serik köfte and Mediterranean seafood, eaten from Ottom…

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🇧🇪 Belgium

Antwerp

Flemish stoofvlees in a convent courtyard, kosher bakeries in the diamond quarter and vintage gueuze…

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🇬🇷 Greece

Athens

Central Market butchers at dawn, souvlaki on Mitropoleos, natural Assyrtiko in Koukaki and the taver…

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🇫🇷 France

Avignon

Les Halles at dawn, daube and tapenade in the intra-muros lanes, and Châteauneuf-du-Pape poured a fe…

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🇦🇿 Azerbaijan

Baku

Pomegranate-heavy bazaars, clay-pot piti, smoky Absheron kebab and the Caspian's own tea-house ritua…

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🇪🇸 Spain

Barcelona

Market breakfasts in Sant Antoni, hundred-year-old bodegas in Poble-sec, and the bomba that El Raval…

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Bath

Farmers' market cheese under a Victorian train shed, wood-fired sourdough on Walcot Street, beef-dri…

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🇬🇪 Georgia

Batumi

Adjaran khachapuri, khinkali soup dumplings, Georgian wine and cha-cha grape spirit…

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🇬🇧 Northern Ireland

Belfast

Victorian market halls, Comber spuds and champ, Lough Neagh eels and the best whiskey bars in Irelan…

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🇷🇸 Serbia

Belgrade

Green markets at dawn, smoky grills at midnight, and the Balkan roll-your-own culture of pljeskavica…

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🇳🇴 Norway

Bergen

Cardamom buns at dawn, fish cakes at noon, reindeer sausage at midnight — eating Vestland from the f…

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🇩🇪 Germany

Berlin

Street food capital of Germany, the world's best döner kebab, craft beer and Michelin-star restauran…

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🇨🇭 Switzerland

Bern

Tuesday and Saturday market stalls on Bundesplatz, Emmental cheese cellars, Berner Platte in vaulted…

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🇪🇸 Spain

Bilbao

Market mornings at La Ribera, pintxo-hopping through Diputación and the Casco Viejo, salt-cod classi…

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Birmingham

The city that invented the Balti, feeds itself from Britain's largest wholesale-fed retail market, a…

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🇸🇮 Slovenia

Bled

Kremšnita on the terrace where it was invented, Bohinj cheese from the dairy, buckwheat žganci in Go…

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🇮🇹 Italy

Bologna

Hand-rolled egg pasta, 30-month Parmigiano, wine-only osterie and the mortadella counters that made …

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🇫🇷 France

Bordeaux

Entrecôte bordelaise, Arcachon oysters, foie gras, duck confit and Saint-Émilion Grand Cru…

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🇫🇷 France

Bourges

Crottin de Chavignol, poulet en barbouille and forestines through the covered market halls, wine bar…

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🇸🇰 Slovakia

Bratislava

Sheep-cheese halušky, Saturday market halls, Pressburg pastry and Small Carpathian wine across three…

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🇩🇪 Germany

Bremen

Domshof market mornings, Schnoor cellar classics, Weser-side breweries and the coffee port that inve…

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Bristol

A 1743 glass-roofed market, Somerset cider by the third, harbourside shipping containers and Glouces…

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🇨🇿 Czech Republic

Brno

Špalíček market stalls, moravský vrabec with sauerkraut, Starobrno pivnice halls and the wine cellar…

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🇧🇪 Belgium

Brussels

Spontaneously fermented gueuze, Anderlecht's market halls, Dandoy speculoos and beef-fat frites eate…

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🇷🇴 Romania

Bucharest

Peasant markets, smoked pork fat, sour soups and the strongest natural wine scene between Vienna and…

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🇭🇺 Hungary

Budapest

Hand-stretched strudel, ruin-bar food trucks, hundred-year confectioneries and a Michelin kitchen po…

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🇹🇷 Turkey

Bursa

The birthplace of the İskender kebab, candied chestnuts and Turkey's oldest covered bazaar food hall…

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🇬🇧 England

Cambridge

Market Square stalls, Mill Road's immigrant kitchens, Cambridge burnt cream and the beer of the Fens…

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🇬🇧 England

Canterbury

Shepherd Neame ales, Whitstable oysters, Goods Shed market produce and the Kentish cream tea across …

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🇫🇷 France

Carcassonne

Cassole-baked cassoulet, Aude producers at Les Halles, Minervois and Cabardès cellars, and the bistr…

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🇬🇧 Wales

Cardiff

Victorian market stalls, laverbread and cockles, Pontcanna's bakery street, Basque-grilled Welsh bee…

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🇮🇹 Italy

Catania

Dawn fish-market theatre at A Piscaria, horse-meat grills in San Berillo, pistachio arancini and Etn…

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🇷🇴 Romania

Cluj-Napoca

Village markets, Hungarian-Romanian kitchens, third-wave coffee and craft beer across Transylvania's…

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🇵🇹 Portugal

Coimbra

Wood-fired suckling pig in Mealhada, chanfana goat stew, Baixa market stalls and Arrifana-poured Bai…

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🇩🇪 Germany

Cologne

Brewery taprooms with blue-aproned Köbes waiters, Belgisches Viertel bistros and a Turkish-Moroccan …

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🇩🇰 Denmark

Copenhagen

Rye bread and pickled herring, Torvehallerne's stalls, Reffen's harbour street food and the natural …

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🇪🇸 Spain

Cordoba

Market pavilions, barrel-poured Montilla-Moriles, guild taverns and the kitchens rebuilding 10th-cen…

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🇬🇷 Greece

Corfu

Venetian-Greek cooking, a working morning market, kumquat liqueur distilleries and Ionian wine from …

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🇬🇷 Greece

Corinth

Saturday laiki markets, Nemea's Agiorgitiko cellars, rooster stewed in red wine, and gavros grilled …

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🇮🇪 Ireland

Cork

Farmhouse cheese counters, offal breakfasts, day-boat fish and the craft beer revival of Ireland's f…

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🇷🇴 Romania

Craiova

Sour ciorba, clay-oven mici and smoky aubergine spreads from the Piata Centrala stalls to the terrac…

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🇧🇪 Belgium

Dinant

Rock-hard honey biscuits pressed in walnut moulds, Wallonian trout, abbey ales and the Leffe brewing…

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🇮🇪 Ireland

Dublin

Victorian market halls, Dublin Bay shellfish, boxty and blaas, and a stout scene that goes far beyon…

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🇭🇷 Croatia

Dubrovnik

Morning markets on Gundulićeva poljana, Mali Ston oysters, šporki makaruli and Pelješac wine poured …

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🇩🇪 Germany

Dusseldorf

Copper-amber Alt poured by aproned Köbes, mustard from a 300-year-old mill, and Immermannstrasse ram…

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🇬🇧 Scotland

Edinburgh

Farmers' market breakfasts in Stockbridge, Michelin-starred langoustine in Leith and single-cask dra…

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🇳🇱 Netherlands

Eindhoven

Worstenbroodjes on the market square, Turkish ovens on the Kruisstraat, Michelin cooking on Kleine B…

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🇵🇹 Portugal

Faro

Market clams, copper-pot cataplana, almond-and-fig sweets and barrier-island beach seafood across th…

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🇮🇹 Italy

Florence

Sant'Ambrogio market breakfasts, lampredotto from the cart, hand-rolled pici and Sangiovese poured s…

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🇩🇪 Germany

Frankfurt

Handkäs mit Musik, seven-herb green sauce and stoneware jugs of Ebbelwoi, from covered market stalls…

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🇵🇹 Portugal

Funchal

Sugar-cane mills, bay-laurel skewers, family wine lodges and Zona Velha tascas across three days of …

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🇮🇪 Ireland

Galway

Native Galway Bay oysters, Saturday market stalls behind St Nicholas' Church, Michelin-starred seafo…

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🇹🇷 Turkey

Gaziantep

Dawn lamb soup, hand-rolled yufka, spice-market pistachios and 400-year-old coffee houses across Tur…

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🇵🇱 Poland

Gdansk

Smoked eel in a neo-Gothic market hall, Kashubian duck soup, shipyard food halls and the 1598 birthp…

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🇨🇭 Switzerland

Geneva

Open-air markets, a 200-year-old chocolatier, lakeside fondue and the vineyards on the city's wester…

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🇮🇹 Italy

Genoa

Mortar-ground pesto, chickpea farinata straight from copper pans, salted anchovies and Sciacchetrà i…

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🇧🇪 Belgium

Ghent

Mustard drawn from a wooden barrel, cuberdon cones on the Groentenmarkt, and the vegetarian capital …

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Gibraltar

Chickpea calentita straight from the bakery tray, Genoese-Andalusian rosto pasta, British ales and S…

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🇬🇧 Scotland

Glasgow

Chip-shop suppers, the city's own chicken tikka masala, Finnieston's small-plates strip and Barras M…

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🇹🇷 Turkey

Goreme

Village pazars, cave kitchens sealing testi kebap in dough, hand-pinched mantı and Emir wine poured …

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🇸🇪 Sweden

Gothenburg

Three days of Baltic herring hatches, 19th-century saluhallar, Majorna craft-beer tanks and Michelin…

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🇪🇸 Spain

Granada

The only city in Spain where every drink comes with a free tapa — 3 days of culinary exploration…

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🇦🇹 Austria

Graz

Kürbiskernöl at dawn markets, Backhendl and Käferbohnen in Altstadt cellars, and Schilcher rosé from…

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🇩🇪 Germany

Hamburg

Dawn fish auctions, Hanseatic sailor's food, Schanzenviertel street eats and the bar that invented t…

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🇫🇮 Finland

Helsinki

Century-old kauppahalli counters, fried silakka, Kallio beer bars and Finland's foraged fine dining…

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🇬🇷 Greece

Heraklion

Market alleys, mizithra cheese from Psiloritis, bougatsa at dawn and raki poured until the plates ar…

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🇷🇴 Romania

Iasi

Peasant market stalls, tochitură moldovenească with a fried egg, cured pastramă from the Carpathian …

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🇦🇹 Austria

Innsbruck

Markthalle mornings, vaulted gasthaus lunches, 1803 pastry counters and Tyrolean brewpubs under the …

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🇬🇧 Scotland

Inverness

Cullen skink and haggis in the Victorian Market, Moray Firth langoustines, and Speyside-adjacent mal…

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🇹🇷 Turkey

Istanbul

Kadıköy's produce stalls, Karaköy's baklava counters, Beşiktaş kokoreç carts and the raki-and-mezze …

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🇹🇷 Turkey

Izmir

Kumru sandwiches in Çeşme, gevrek at dawn, wild greens in Alaçatı and rakı-fuelled meze tables along…

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🇵🇱 Poland

Katowice

Rolady and kluski in coal-town milk bars, the covered halls of Rynek, and craft beer on Mariacka Str…

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🇱🇹 Lithuania

Kaunas

Soviet-era market halls, Lithuania's zeppelin dumplings, farmhouse beer from the Nemunas valley and …

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🇷🇺 Russia

Kazan

Echpochmak from wood ovens, kymyz at the Bazaar, horse-meat kazylyk and chak-chak pyramids across Ta…

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🇺🇦 Ukraine

Kharkiv

Cathedral-side market halls, varenyky canteens, Kharkiv-born coffee chains and the brewery district …

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🇺🇦 Ukraine

Kiev

Bessarabsky's marble market halls, varenyky by the dozen, banosh from the Carpathians and a natural-…

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🇸🇰 Slovakia

Kosice

Market halls, Hungarian-Slovak border cooking, sheep cheese dumplings and eastern Slovakia's craft b…

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🇲🇪 Montenegro

Kotor

Bay mussels in buzara, mountain-cured pršut, backyard grills and Montenegrin wine poured inside medi…

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🇵🇱 Poland

Krakow

Market halls, milk bars, zapiekanka hatches and cellar kitchens across the Old Town, Kazimierz and P…

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🇷🇺 Russia

Krasnodar

Sunflower-oil markets, Adyghe cheese, Kuban borscht with pampushki, and Russia's best domestic wine …

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🇨🇭 Switzerland

Lausanne

Market malakoffs, papet vaudois in a 1780 bistro, Dézaley Chasselas on the terraces and craft beer s…

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🇬🇧 England

Leeds

Chapel Allerton delis, beef-dripping haddock, Mill Hill curry houses and the mill-conversion taproom…

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🇫🇷 France

Lille

Waterzooi, carbonnade flamande and merveilleux pastries across Wazemmes market halls, Vieux-Lille ch…

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🇦🇹 Austria

Linz

Linzer Torte at the source, Südbahnhofmarkt at opening hour, Austria's largest beer garden and the D…

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🇵🇹 Portugal

Lisbon

Century-old grocers, tinned-fish cathedrals, charcoal-grilled sardines and green wine poured straigh…

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🇬🇧 England

Liverpool

Global-port cooking, Victorian market halls and the Baltic Triangle street-food scene, eaten the way…

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🇸🇮 Slovenia

Ljubljana

Riverside market halls, Friday's Odprta Kuhna street-food fair, štruklji and potica, and Slovenia's …

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🇵🇱 Poland

Lodz

Milk bars, a 19th-century market hall, Piotrkowska bistros and the food halls hiding inside Łódź's r…

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

London

Brick Lane beigels at dawn, Hackney market stalls, game at Rules and Cantonese roast duck in Soho.…

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🇵🇱 Poland

Lublin

Onion flatbreads with EU protected status, Ukrainian-Polish borderland kitchens, and craft beer in R…

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🇨🇭 Switzerland

Lucerne

Riverside market stalls, 19th-century Wirtshäuser, hand-rolled chocolate and the brewpubs and grotto…

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🇱🇺 Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Smoked pork collar in the Grund, Glacis market stalls, Moselle crémant and a bouneschlupp-fuelled cr…

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🇫🇷 France

Lyon

Market mornings on the Croix-Rousse, quenelle and pâté en croûte in the bouchons, and Beaujolais pou…

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🇳🇱 Netherlands

Maastricht

Sour stew simmered for days, cherry vlaai from a 1930s bakery, marl-cave-aged cheese and Belgian bee…

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🇪🇸 Spain

Madrid

Century-old markets, cast-iron churro counters, Sunday vermouth taps and the callos-and-cocido canon…

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🇪🇸 Spain

Malaga

Iron-vaulted markets, barrel-poured Pedro Ximénez, fried-fish counters and a beach restaurant where …

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🇸🇪 Sweden

Malmo

Möllan's Middle Eastern street stalls, Skåne farm produce, third-wave roasteries and a two-star tast…

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🇬🇧 England

Manchester

Victorian market halls, Rusholme's neon curry strip, Ancoats pasta counters and railway-arch breweri…

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🇫🇷 France

Marseille

Aïoli on Fridays, chickpea fritters on the quay, North African spice halls and natural-wine bars abo…

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🇮🇹 Italy

Milan

Historic covered markets, saffron risotto and cotoletta, Brianza cheese counters and Campari-fuelled…

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🇧🇾 Belarus

Minsk

Soviet-era canteens, a colonnaded farmers' market and the craft-beer courtyards of Oktyabrskaya, eat…

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🇲🇨 Monaco

Monaco

Market stalls on Place d'Armes, Monégasque socca and barbagiuan, La Condamine trattorias and the Riv…

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🇫🇷 France

Montpellier

Covered markets from 1855, Picpoul de Pinet on the terrace, and Bouzigues oysters shucked twenty min…

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🇷🇺 Russia

Moscow

Soviet-era domed markets, Georgian feasts, blini counters and the farm-fed Michelin kitchens rewriti…

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🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mostar

Ćevapi in somun, slow-cooked aščinica stews, Bosnian coffee ground to dust, and Žilavka wine drunk i…

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🇩🇪 Germany

Munich

Beer-garden roast pork, pre-noon veal sausage, Viktualienmarkt cheese cellars and the fifth-generati…

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🇫🇷 France

Nancy

Macarons baked from a 1793 nuns' recipe, Art Nouveau brasseries, mirabelle plum eau-de-vie and the c…

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🇫🇷 France

Nantes

Galettes and salted butter from Brittany, oysters and Muscadet from the Loire, and the LU biscuit le…

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🇮🇹 Italy

Naples

Dawn fish markets, standing-room fritture, six-hour ragù and Campanian wine poured in a Chiaia alley…

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🇫🇷 France

Nice

Chickpea crêpes off the wood fire, stuffed vegetables in Vieux-Nice courtyards, and Bellet wine from…

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🇨🇾 Cyprus

Nicosia

Charcoal-grilled souvla, sheftalia and Ottoman sweets in the only capital where lunch and dinner sit…

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🇷🇺 Russia

Nizhny Novgorod

Sterlet soup on the cliffs, Soviet-era markets, Pokrovskaya bistros and a Nizhny beer scene that riv…

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🇷🇸 Serbia

Novi Sad

Green markets stacked with Fruška Gora produce, Habsburg-era paprikaš, Bermet dessert wine and Novi …

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🇷🇺 Russia

Novosibirsk

Central Market stalls, Siberian dumpling counters, cedar-nut desserts and the craft-beer bars of Kra…

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🇩🇪 Germany

Nuremberg

Finger-sized sausages over beechwood, flourless Elisenlebkuchen and dark Franconian Rotbier from san…

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🇬🇱 Greenland

Nuuk

Musk ox burgers at Braetttet, New Nordic tasting menus at Sarfalik, and snow crab pulled from the fj…