28 city guides · 3-day food & drink itineraries
3-day city guides built around local cuisine, street food, markets and dining culture.
Fish-market grills at Mina Zayed, Emirati machboos and balaleet, Khalidiya's Lebanese canteens and k…
Cherry kebab, mahshi, muhammara and pistachio pastry across the souks, the Christian quarter and the…
Downtown falafel counters, Jabal Amman's produce souks, Circassian kitchens and the arak-and-mezze r…
Spice alleys of Shorja, tamarisk-grilled Tigris carp on Abu Nuwas, and buffalo-cream breakfasts in t…
Highland Maronite cooking at 1,500m: kishk drying on rooftops, apple orchards, saj bread, cedar hone…
Saturday farmers' markets, Armenian Bourj Hammoud, hand-churned sorbet, 4am shawarma and small-batch…
Mallet-pounded mastic ice cream, spice souqs heavy with rosebuds, Midan sweet workshops and arak in …
Alley tea shops, the Al Wakrah fish auction, spice-lane loomi and Doha's best machboos, mapped hour …
Balaleet breakfasts in Al Fahidi, fried hammour at a beach shack, Satwa shawarma at midnight and the…
Yemenite bakeries, Moroccan fish stews, Negev date wine and hummus stops from the shuk to the harbou…
Wadi Nisnas chickpea kitchens, the covered Talpiot Market, Druze bakeries on the Carmel ridge and do…
Mutton beryani in the bazaar, gaz nougat from 200-year-old workshops and khoresh-e mast in Safavid c…
Foul and tamees breakfasts in Al-Balad, charcoal-grilled Red Sea sayadiyah, mutabbaq stalls and Saud…
Mahane Yehuda at dawn, Iraqi-Kurdish stews, Old City sesame bread and arak bars behind shuttered sta…
Bedouin rice pots, dawn fish auctions on the Gulf, tea-house alleys in the old souk and a diaspora d…
Dawn fish auctions, family machboos kitchens, Muharraq halwa cauldrons and Adliya's late-night dinin…
Khorasan cooking at its source: sheep-head broth at dawn, charcoal shishlik in Shandiz, saffron ice …
Hijazi mandi and saleeg, Afghan-run kabuli rice halls, Ajyad juice stalls and the date souks that fe…
Tandoor tamees breakfasts, kabsa and saleeg platters, roadside camel milk and Quba's palm-grove date…
Dawn auctions at Mutrah's fish quay, clay-oven shuwa lamb, karak stops in Ruwi and majlis dinners un…
Wholesale date markets, mud-oven mandi, Yemeni haneeth halls and third-wave Saudi coffee across the …
Slow-roasted lamb pits, banana-and-coconut plantation stalls, Yemeni-Omani bakeries and frankincense…
Bubbling saltah in stone pots, tandoor-blistered malooj bread, spice mounds in Suq al-Milh and the m…
Emirati harees and luqaimat in the Heart of Sharjah, Kerala fish curry in Rolla and 24-hour karak st…
Fars Province cooking at its source: herb-heavy stews, rosewater sorbets, saffron-stained rice and t…
Eat your way through the world's largest covered bazaar, Tabriz's legendary kufteh meatballs, and th…
Bazaar spice stalls, dizi at century-old workers' cafés, ash-e reshteh from street cauldrons and Alb…
Yemenite soup kitchens, Levinsky spice alleys, Jaffa fish grills and the sabich-and-arak street cult…