Places Jay Braun Wants to Go

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

Founded in 1880, this humble brewery still practices a disappearing technique of sake-making.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Sample cuisine inspired by the Great Plains indigenous people who have been gathering at this sacred Canadian Heritage Park for 6,000 years.

In her ancestral home, one chef preserves ancient Filipino recipes and serves up traditional, home-cooked food to history-loving foodies.

Blowtorches, tuna, and a jolly, chain-smoking proprietor mark this beloved street-food stand.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.