How to Eat and Drink Your Way Through Paso Robles

As I sip my way across California, I like to dream up avatars for each wine region. I picture Napa Valley as a freshly retired tech founder who bought a vineyard to outrun boredom. Sonoma is a hippie farmer with ancestral roots in Italy. And Paso Robles is a laid-back rancher with an epicurean soul. He’s […]

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Beyond Zinfandel: The Grapes Thriving in Dry Creek Valley

There’s a lot to love about the world-class wine region known as Dry Creek Valley. There’s the easygoing pace, the deeply rooted winemaking culture and the sheer range of grapes thriving across the Sonoma County AVA. While the area is often synonymous with Zinfandel, that’s really just the beginning. From Rhône varieties to crisp whites […]

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Eat Your Way Through America’s Best Food Tours

Most people know to eat beignets in New Orleans, cheese curds in Wisconsin and barbecue in Kansas City, but it’s that personal touch — from impassioned locals, guides and storytellers — that really give a place its flavor. Nowadays, guided food tours can be found across the globe, in cities large and small, lending insider-y […]

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Philadelphia Is America’s Most Underrated Drinking City

“We are indeed the most overlooked drinking city in America,” admits Danny Childs, the James Beard-award-winning author of Slow Drinks and a partner at Almanac, a Philly cocktail den built on local and hyper-seasonal ingredients. “It’s a similar feeling in the bartending community here that’s long been echoed by the city’s sports teams — no […]

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The Smallest Bar in the World Is Worth the Trip

Milan is the center of attention for the Winter Olympics, but the best reason to visit the city might be to grab one of four seats at Backdoor 43, the smallest bar in the world. This closet-sized establishment operates behind a nondescript doorway in the Niviglio neighborhood, facing a canal on Ripa di Porta Ticinese. A […]

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Put Banff on Your Year-Round Travel List as a Gourmet Getaway

The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise is cozied up alongside the impossible, blue glacial waters of the lake whose name it bears. It’s a majestic setting, and during the long winter, those pristine waters freeze solid into an ice sheet you can walk over. The Canadian Rockies can be frigid at such times, but the resort […]

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