Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

To enter this cluttered-yet-cozy sanctum of Belgian brews, ring the bell and tell the gatekeepers you've come “to taste beer.”

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

Once a month, an Indonesian feast appears inside an Elmhurst church hall.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

Stocking up on the world's best beer requires a pilgrimage to a monastery drive-through.

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

Puerto Rico's oldest rum producer started its 140-year-old business with "a little barrel."

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

An on-site urban farm and fish pond supply some of the produce for this upscale restaurant.

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found here.

Come for the bread-themed puppet show, stay for the buffet.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

Sail in for a ’dam good slice.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.