Food-first travel · Plan a trip · 2027
Where to go in 2027, with the food filled in
Lonely Planet, National Geographic and Priceline just named the places everyone will want to go next year. You'll pick the place first. Chef filled in the food for each one: the dish to eat, where to eat it, and a trip with a food concierge.
The US and Canada
Baltimore and Maryland
Eat: Jumbo lump crab cake at Faidley's Seafood. Baltimore's lump crab cake stall, a Fells Point Irish pub on the New York Times list, and Chesapeake crab houses with paper on the tables.
Bayfield, Wisconsin
Eat: Lake Superior whitefish at Greunke's Restaurant. A Lake Superior fishing town where the whitefish comes off the boat and the livers go on toast.
Beacon, New York
Eat: A farm-to-table Hudson Valley dinner at Wild Kitchen & Bar. A Hudson Valley art town with a Main Street full of new restaurants, from farm-to-table to a British kitchen.
Birmingham, Alabama
Eat: Alabama white sauce barbecue at Saw's BBQ. Eater named it a top 15 dining destination, with a Bon Appétit best new restaurant and a Southern Living list of legendary tables.
Block Island, Rhode Island
Eat: Fried seafood and a raw bar by the harbor at Ballard's. A ferry-only island of clam shacks and bakeries, with raw bars and fried seafood by the harbor.
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California's Coastal Redwoods
Eat: Humboldt Bay oysters at Humboldt Bay Provisions. After a day under the tallest trees on Earth, Humboldt Bay supplies most of California's farmed oysters, shucked a few blocks from Old Town Eureka.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Eat: Halifax donair. Atlantic seafood, a donair born here, and Agricola Street tasting rooms in a small harbor city.
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Madison, Wisconsin
Eat: Friday fish fry. Friday fish fry at a supper club, a Saturday farmers market lap around the Capitol, and a new public market on the east side.
New Mexico (Santa Fe and Albuquerque)
Eat: Breakfast burrito smothered in Christmas at Tia Sophia's. The first Michelin Southwest guide in August 2026 put five New Mexico places on its Bib Gourmand list, all about red and green chile.
Pacific Coast Highway, California
Eat: A Big Sur coastal tasting menu at Sierra Mar. Michelin-starred dining on the clifftops of Big Sur, Carmel and Laguna Beach, with the highway to connect them.
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Prince Edward Island
Eat: Lobster roll. Canada's food island, where lobster rolls come off the boat that morning and Malpeque oysters are served within sight of the farm.
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Québec (Québec City and around)
Eat: Poutine at Chez Ashton. A walled French-speaking city where you can eat a late-night poutine in the Old Town and a two-Michelin-star tasting menu in the same weekend.
Snoqualmie, Washington
Eat: Salish Lodge brunch with honey at The Restaurant & Terrace Bar at Salish Lodge. Brunch above the falls at Salish Lodge, then burgers and coffee in North Bend.
Southern Ozarks, Missouri and Arkansas
Eat: Springfield-style cashew chicken at Leong's Asian Diner. Springfield invented its own cashew chicken, Bentonville has a real restaurant scene, and Eureka Springs hides a wine cave in a spring-fed building.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Bocas del Toro
Eat: Seafood in coconut sauce at El Último Refugio. Water taxis, stilt bars and Caribbean-Panamanian seafood in coconut sauce, all within a few minutes of Bocas Town.
Cape Froward
Eat: Chupe de centolla at La Luna. The wild end of the road sits 70 kilometers from Punta Arenas, a town of king crab chupe and old-school sandwiches.
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Grenada
Eat: Oil down at Dodgy Dock Street Food Wednesday. A real spice island where oil down, crab-back and nutmeg-scented rum punch are eaten in a harbor town.
Kuélap and Chachapoyas
Eat: Tacacho con cecina at El Batán del Tayta. Eat in Chachapoyas before and after Kuélap: cured cecina, yuca juanes and Amazonas coffee.
Miches
Eat: Pescado con coco at Al Coco Restaurant. A quiet coast of comedores serving fish in coconut sauce, now with new resorts.
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Puerto Rico
Eat: Lechón asado at El Rancho Original. Spend a weekend morning on the Guavate pork highway, then eat James Beard-recognized cooking in Santurce and fritters at the Piñones beach kiosks.
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Salvador, Bahia
Eat: Acarajé at Acarajé Dária e Laura. The capital of Afro-Brazilian cooking, with six restaurants in Brazil's 2026 top 100 and acarajé fried by baianas on the street.
Europe
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Innsbruck
Eat: Tiroler Gröstl. A mountain city where a five-toque kitchen sits a few streets from places that still fry Tiroler Gröstl the old way.
Leipzig
Eat: Leipziger Lerche. Three Michelin stars in town and a protected local pastry, the Leipziger Lerche.
Leon
Eat: Morcilla de Leon and cecina at Meson Jabugo. Order a drink in the Barrio Humedo and a tapa arrives with it; morcilla and cecina are the local stars.
Normandy
Eat: Normandy bistronomy at L'Odas. Bistronomic Caen and starred Rouen, with Bib Gourmands in Bayeux and Honfleur.
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Sibenik
Eat: Peka at Konoba Gorica. A Michelin-starred Renaissance palazzo and a handful of stone konobas cooking peka and brujet.
Swedish Riviera: Skanor-Falsterbo
Eat: Harbour fish and shellfish in Skanor at Fiskhuset i Skanor. Harbour seafood in a summer resort town, with one of Sweden's best tasting menus a short drive away in Malmo.
Tricity: Gdansk, Sopot and Gdynia
Eat: Pomeranian goose at ARCO by Paco Perez. Michelin's first Pomeranian guide year gave Gdansk a star and four Bib Gourmands.
Veneto
Eat: Tiramisu in Treviso. Tiramisu was born in Treviso, Verona cooks risotto in Amarone, and Venice still pours a glass at a standing-room bacaro.
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Vestland: Bergen and the fjords
Eat: Bergen fish soup at Bryggeloftet and Stuene. Bergen has two- and one-star Michelin dining and the city's own fish soup and cinnamon bun.
Africa, the Middle East and India
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Fes, Morocco
Eat: Pastilla at La Maison Bleue. The old capital is often called Morocco's food capital: pastilla, tanjia and a camel burger on a rooftop.
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Luxor, Egypt
Eat: Pigeon stuffed with freekeh at Al Sahaby Lane. Eat Nile Valley classics between temples, and plan ahead since eclipse week hotels are nearly gone.
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Malawi (Lilongwe and Lake Malawi)
Eat: Grilled chambo with nsima at Central Market stalls. Chambo fresh from the lake with nsima, plus Lilongwe's best tables.
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Oman (Muscat and Nizwa)
Eat: Shuwa at Bait Al Luban. Slow-cooked shuwa lamb in Muscat, then Omani halwa stirred in copper pots at the Nizwa souq.
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Rabat, Morocco
Eat: Lamb tagine with prunes at Dar El Medina. Morocco's calm capital pairs medina tagines with a new Alain Ducasse table on the 33rd floor and fresh Atlantic seafood.
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Tsavo East and West National Parks, Kenya
Eat: Swahili grilled fish in coconut sauce. Eat at the lodge waterhole in the park, then end on the coast with Swahili seafood in Mombasa and Diani.
Asia
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Chengdu
Eat: Mapo tofu at Chen Mapo Tofu (Qinghua Road). The home of Sichuan cooking, with a Michelin guide now topping out at three stars and Bib Gourmand noodle shops and mapo tofu houses on every other street.
Da Nang and Hoi An
Eat: Mi Quang at Mỳ Quảng Sứa Hồng Vân. Central Vietnam's noodle capital: 23 Bib Gourmands in Da Nang and Hoi An's cao lau a half hour south.
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Gujarat, India (Ahmedabad)
Eat: Gujarati thali at Agashiye, The House of MG. A vegetarian city where the thali, the fafda-jalebi breakfast and the Manek Chowk night market all fit in one day.
Jaipur, India
Eat: Laal maas at Spice Court. Pyaaz kachori for breakfast, laal maas for dinner, and sweets in Johari Bazaar.
Niigata
Eat: Murakami salmon at Sennenzake Kikkawa Izutsuya. Sea of Japan sushi at roughly half Tokyo prices, Murakami's whole-salmon cooking, and the country's densest cluster of sake breweries.
Okinawa
Eat: Soki soba at Gabusoka Shokudo (Maejima). Okinawa eats like nowhere else in Japan: pork-rich soba, pig's-foot broths, sea grapes and Agu pork shabu-shabu, all within a few blocks of Naha's old market.
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Penang
Eat: Char koay teow at Awesome Char Koay Teow. Malaysia's hawker capital, with 34 Bib Gourmands in the 2027 Michelin guide and nasi kandar finally listed.
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Transcaucasian Trail, Armenia
Eat: Dolma at Dolmama. Yerevan's modern Armenian tables and Dilijan's old-town restaurants are the base for the trail.
Australia
Adelaide
Eat: Afghan banquet at Parwana Afghan Kitchen. Australia's first Michelin Guide landed in South Australia in October 2026, with two stars in Adelaide's hills and a big Central Market in the middle.
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Melbourne
Eat: Soup dumplings at Ruyi. Melbourne has Australia's deepest restaurant bench, from Gourmet Traveller's 2026 Restaurant of the Year in Collingwood to dumpling houses downtown.
Also on the lists: Montserrat, Bariloche and the Lakes, Maya Ka'an, Dessau, Dumfries and Galloway, Santander, Fulidhoo, Maldives. We're still checking which places there are open and worth it, so their pages come next. Going sooner? Our food concierge plans it now.
How Chef filled it in
The destinations are the lists' own: Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2027 (the destinations, not the experiences), National Geographic Best of the World 2027 and Priceline's 2027 Where to Next?. The food is ours: every place comes from this year's critics, guides, awards and local press, and each one was checked open in November 2026. For parks and trails we name the town you'll eat in. Sources are on every page.
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