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One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

On a river island north of Bangkok, a small bar helped lead a home-brewing rebellion.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

From the dishes to the art, this Michelin-starred restaurant orbits around one beloved French melon.

This recipe is set in stone.

This tiny, tucked-away eatery reflects the history of Mexico's Lebanese immigrants.

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.

The melon has its own sculpture, festival, and order of knights.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

Enjoy egg rolls and live music in a converted bank vault.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.