Places Edited by Sam O'Brien

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

This antique rail car has been reborn as an urban cafe.

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

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

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

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

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

From horses to stainless-steel trucks, this iconic Providence burger wagon is one of the oldest mobile diners in the country.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

Get fishing gear and craft beer at this restaurant on the pier.

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

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

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

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

Run by members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, this community farm nurtures traditional desert cultivars.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.