Food & Drink
Restaurants, cafés, bakeries and bars people keep going back to. Collections built by locals who eat out a lot.
Collections
- Amsterdam's brown cafés — A bruin café is defined less by its menu than by what nobody has changed: dark panelling, sawdust on the floor, jenever poured to the brim…
- Turin's historic cafés on the Locali Storici d'Italia register — The Locali Storici d'Italia register admits a room only if it has kept the fittings and the trade it started with, which in Turin means gil…
- Vienna's historic coffeehouses, the Kaffeehaus institutions — In Vienna a melange buys a chair for as long as you want it, plus a newspaper off the rack and a glass of water nobody charges for. The roo…
- Madrid tabernas trading for more than a century — Every house here has been pouring in the same premises since before 1920, several since the reign of Isabel II, and most still turn out the…
- Brussels' historic beer cafés — Spontaneously fermented beer is a Brussels speciality, sour and still and largely unexportable, and these rooms are where it is drunk on it…
- Porto's historic Port wine lodges — The fortified wine is grown up the Douro but aged here on the south bank, in long cool cellars built for the barrels rather than for visito…
- Naples pizzerias trading since before 1900 — Each of these houses can be traced in city records to the nineteenth century or earlier, before pizza left Naples for anywhere else. The ou…
- Buenos Aires bares notables, the cafés the city protects by law — A municipal register shields certain cafés and bars from renovation and demolition, on the grounds of age, architecture or the writers and…
- Paris dining rooms protected as monuments historiques — The state listing attaches to ceilings, painted panels, mosaic floors, mirrors and carved shopfronts, which means the room cannot be altere…
- Palermo counters that cook only offal — spleen, intestine, tripe, frittola — Spleen simmered in lard and stacked into bread, lamb intestine wound onto skewers over charcoal, boiled tripe sold by weight, frittola turn…