Places michaelleejones Wants to Go

This modern tandoor eatery was once a canteen for Soviet farmers.

For more than 15 years, this downtown dive bar has hosted fiery outdoor “iron pours.”

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

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

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

For more than two centuries, this family-run establishment has been serving up some of Ireland's best oysters.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

Taste rums made with heirloom sugarcane on the distillery's own estate.

Have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul.

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

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

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

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

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

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

This 24-hour vending machine serves up homemade treats inspired by the local Japanese snow monkeys.

Feast on Middle Eastern mezze from an Israeli expat duo.

This ambitious restaurant celebrates the culinary traditions of the Ozarks before 1870.

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

Dine on Hungarian-Jewish dishes at this multigenerational, family-run institution.