Places meredithp Wants to Go

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

In 2013, historians discovered a hidden room devoted to the art of making royals' hot chocolate.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

This Singaporean food-court stall was home to the world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal.

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

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

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

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

At this snack-shack in the bucolic British countryside, you can still get a slice of socialism with your spot of tea.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

At this historic pub, you can sit back, sip, and watch a whole century go by.

An English brewery transported to North Korea.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

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

The frozen treats at this Cape Town parlor are inspired by Africa's food cultures.

This snack factory boasts several tributes to its popular line of rice crackers, including a quasi-shrine.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

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

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.