Melanie Hansche

Ritz-Carlton’s first foray into cruising yields some of the best fine dining on a ship. Here’s a first taste of the onboard restaurants Talaat Nam and S.E.A., spearheaded by chef Sven Elverfeld of the three-Michelin-starred Aqua, the fine-dining restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Wolfsburg, Germany.

One of the best airports for culinary-driven travelers among the 2024 Global Tastemakers awards, Munich Airport (aka Franz Josef Strauss Airport) elevates local flavor and hospitality with a gourmet delicatessen, brewpubs, a grocery store, and a winter market from mid-November until late December.

Ease is the name of the game all summer long with simple recipes and tips for hosting and entertaining to make your next summer soiree the best one yet.

The cruise industry has been doubling down on the quality of food and drink experiences, luring big name celebrity chefs to open restaurants on cruise ships, curating extraordinary wine cellars on board cruise ships, and arranging visits to exclusive restaurants on shore. These are the best food-forward cruises to take in 2025.

The 2025 Global Tastemakers Awards celebrates the best in culinary travel, including the top restaurants, bars, cruises, hotels, airlines, and airports. Voted on by over 400 chefs, travel experts, and food and travel writers from across the world, let the 165 winners inspire your next delicious trip in the U.S. and abroad.

Don't expect a menu of familiar Thai dishes at this homely and vibrant restaurant in Phoenix. Instead discover flavor-packed microregional dishes from Chiang Rai, Kanchanaburi, and the Andaman Sea, informed by the families and communities that have touched Lom Wong's owners, Yotaka and Alex Martin.

Food & Wine's Best New Chef Mentorship Program includes professional programming hosted with industry leaders annually and is designed to empower each class of Best New Chefs with the tools to navigate their newfound fame and publicity in ways that benefits their staff and their careers. These are some of the most valuable lessons of the last seven years.

Over the past 25 years, Brussels sprouts got the superstar treatment, avocado toast became a brunch staple, and burrata was the cheese of the moment. Discover the dishes that have withstood the test of time to become the defining trends in modern dining.

Explore the Food & Wine 25 — the cocktails, wines, dishes, chefs, and big ideas that defined how we ate and drank over the past 25 years. From tiny cupcakes and "Sex and the City," to "The Bear" and the food truck revolution, these moments shaped the 2000s.

Food & Wine's annual Global Tastemakers Awards recognizes the best in culinary travel. To uncover the top food and drink experiences, we polled over 400 chefs, travel experts, food and travel writers, and wine pros from across the globe and then turned the results over to our Global Advisory Board, who ranked the top nominees in each category.