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The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

Eat like a "buckaroo" at this remote restaurant.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Grapes be damned, this distillery makes wine from apples, blueberries, cranberries, and more.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

Dine inside a giant caterpillar at this community-run eatery.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546.

Family-run for more than a century, this pizzeria makes a unique mustard pie.

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

What was once a communal kitchen now serves heaping portions of hearty German fare.

Sip creative cocktails in the former vault of the Riggs Bank.

Located close to a movie studio lot, this restaurant has a long history of star-studded patronage.

A real-life homage to the Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell's fictional Eurovision musical duo.