43 Meals Everyone Should Eat In Their Lifetime
Slurp up a bowl of steaming hot Pho, a tangy beef noodle soup, in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Feast on a juicy, dry-aged steak from the famous Peter Luger Steakhouse in Brooklyn, New York.
Bite into a chewy, gooey slice of Neapolitan-style pizza in Naples, Italy.
Sample fresh, foraged food at Copenhagen's Noma, the new best restaurant in the world.
Learn how to properly eat soup dumplings in Shanghai: Use your chopsticks to pick up the top of the dumpling and dip it in soy sauce. Then place the dumpling on your soup spoon and poke a hole in it to let the soup drain out. Slurp up the soup and eat the dumpling.
Cool down with a scoop of authentic homemade gelato from Grom. There are locations all over Italy—Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice—as well as a few shops abroad.
Chow down on poutine, a dish of crisp french fries with brown gravy and cheese curds, in Montreal, Canada. Locals recommend the poutine from La Banquise.
Get some fresh hot beignets, a type of deep-fried pastry topped with powdered sugar, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The famous place to try them is Cafe du Monde.
Watch wildebeests from your breakfast table at Singita Grumeti, a luxury camp tent in Africa's Serengeti.
Taste the best sushi in the world at Sukiyabashi Jiro, the famed sushi restaurant from the documentary "Jiro Dreams of Sushi." (Go soon before Jiro retires!)
Eat crispy Baja-style (estilo-Baja) fish tacos from a street vendor in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Savor a succulent and juicy lobster roll in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Share a pot of paella, saffron-infused rice with seafood and chorizo, with friends at famed Can Majó, a restaurant on the beach in Barcelona.
Lap up a bowl of asam laksa, a spicy and sour fish-based noodle soup, in Penang, Malaysia.
Try some fresh-carved doner kebab in Turkey.
Cool off with a bowl of fresh Bahamian conch salad and a cold Kalik beer while listening to the waves and burying your feet in the sand in the Bahamas.
Wrap fresh-carved Peking duck up in a pancake with scallions and hoisin sauce in Beijing, China.
Embrace your carnivorous side, and feast on all sorts of grilled meats at a Brazilian churrasco.
Have a meal at Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée, arguably Paris's most elegant and finest restaurant. Menus change with the seasons, and a four-course tasting menu costs 380 euros (about $500).
Bite into a crispy, crunchy empanada filled with meat, cheese, or vegetables in Santiago, Chile.
Eat the extravagant four-course $225 tasting menu at Quay, Australia's most awarded restaurant, while looking out at Sydney Harbor. A meal here ends with the famed Guava snow egg, made from strawberries, guava, vanilla custard, and meringues.
Breathe in the fragrant aroma of lamb tagine, a sweet, rich, and flavorful stew from Morocco usually made with lamb, raisins, almonds, and spices and served over couscous, before diving in.
Treat yourself to a sachertorte—a rich, dense chocolate cake—in Vienna, Austria. The city is renowned for its elegant and historic pastry shops, like Cafe Landtmann and Demel.
Sample dozens of bite-sized morsels—dumplings, pork buns, turnip cakes, noodles—at dim sum in Hong Kong.
Try the reinvented Peruvian dishes at Lima's Central restaurant, which was named the best restaurant in Latin America.
Dig into the rib-sticking barbecue—pulled pork, ribs, burnt ends, and more—at famous BBQ joint Arthur Bryant’s in Kansas City, Missouri.
Take a bite out of a crispy, chewy, fresh falafel sandwich overstuffed with vegetables in Amman, Jordan. Falafel Al Quds and Abu Staif are famous falafel shops.
Crack open a fresh grilled lobster right on the beach in Caye Caulker, Belize.
Sample Berlin's iconic street food: Currywurst, pork sausage that's cut into slices and doused with curry ketchup. It's served with a fresh roll to sop up the delicious sauce. Berliners love Konnopke Imbiss in the neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg.
Dig deep into layers of the gooey, melted cheese and warm tomato sauce of a deep dish pizza in Chicago.
Sample the sumptuous five-course lunch tasting menu at The Test Kitchen in Cape Town, South Africa, which is widely considered to be the best restaurant in Africa.
Chow down on a hearty meal of fish and chips in London, and douse it with malt vinegar—just like the locals.
Peel off a crispy, flaky layer of fresh spanakopita, a feta-and-spinach pie that's served all over Greece.
Sit down to a hearty breakfast of a masala dosa, a thin crepe stuffed with potatoes, onions, and spices, and a chai tea in southern India.
Dig into a steaming bowl of moules-frites in Brussels, Belgium.
Select your own steak, then watch the grill masters cook it at Cabaña Las Lilas, a famous parilla (grill) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Indulge in a once-in-a-lifetime meal at The French Laundry, Chef Thomas Keller's iconic restaurant in Napa Valley, California.
Stuff yourself with a hearty and flavorful meal of arroz con pollo, rice mixed with chicken, vegetables, and black beans, in Havana, Cuba.
Start your day off right with a classic New York-style bagel, topped with lox, cream cheese, and red onions. Every New Yorker has his or her favorite bagel shop, but H&H and Ess-A-Bagel are classics.
Channel your inner carnivore and gorge on elk, venison, bison, and other wild game in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The Gun Barrel is a great place to try all these meats.
Sop up the spicy yet sweet gravy with a bun and crack into a pot of chili crab in Singapore.
Take part in a de rigeur French ritual: Picnic with a fresh loaf of crusty bread, soft cheeses, charcuterie, and a crisp bottle of chilled rosé in the south of France.
Sample authentic local street food—satay, pad Thai, fried fish—in Thailand.
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