Travel
Why Ljubljana Might Be Europe's Best-Kept Secret
Ljubljana, Slovenia's capital, is a city of 300,000 that most travelers skip between Venice and Zagreb, which is exactly why it's one of the best small cities in Europe.
2026-06-07
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Sophie Chen
Drinks & Travel Editor
Sophie writes about what to order and where to go, in that order. She spent four years behind bars before she started writing about them, which is why her cocktail coverage tends to be about technique and cost rather than provenance stories. She travels light and complains about people who do not.
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Travel
Why Tbilisi Is the Coolest City Nobody's Talking About
Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, is having a moment that most of the Western travel world hasn't caught yet.
2026-06-06
Travel
Why You Should Visit Medellin Before Everyone Else Does
Medellín has spent two decades rewriting its story, and the current chapter is a city of innovation, nightlife, and mountain-valley beauty that rivals anything in South America.
2026-06-06
Travel
48 Hours in Nashville: The Dandy City Guide
Nashville has evolved well beyond the rhinestone-and-country stereotype into a legitimate food and culture city that happens to have a world-class music scene attached.
2026-06-05
Travel
How to Get Upgraded on a Flight (Legally)
Airline upgrades aren't random acts of kindness — they're the result of systems, status, and strategy that frequent flyers have been gaming for years.
2026-06-05
Drinks & Dining
Why a Good Cutting Board Is Worth the Investment
A cutting board is not a glamorous purchase, and that is exactly why most people own a terrible one.
2026-06-03
Drinks & Dining
How to Make the Perfect Espresso at Home
Perfect espresso at home is achievable, but it requires understanding what you are actually doing.
2026-06-02
Drinks & Dining
The 10 Best Bakeries in Paris for a First-Timer
Paris is not a city where you go to a single bakery.
2026-06-02
Drinks & Dining
The Best Matcha Spots in Every Major City
Matcha has evolved from a niche Japanese tea ceremony ingredient to a global café staple, and the quality gap between good matcha and bad matcha is wider than almost any other beverage category.
2026-06-02
Drinks & Dining
The 8 Best Champagnes Under $50
Champagne under fifty dollars is not a compromise.
2026-06-01
Drinks & Dining
The 10 Best Whiskey Bars in America
A great whiskey bar is defined by three things: selection, knowledge, and atmosphere.
2026-05-31
Drinks & Dining
The Best Canned Cocktails That Don't Taste Like Chemicals
The canned cocktail market exploded in recent years, and most of it is terrible.
2026-05-31
Drinks & Dining
Why Thai Street Food Changed the Way I Think About Cooking
The first time you eat pad kra pao from a street cart in Bangkok, standing on a sidewalk at eleven at night while motorbikes whip past, you realize that almost everything you understood about cooking was incomplete.
2026-05-30
Drinks & Dining
How to Order at a Mexican Restaurant Like You've Been Before
Walking into an authentic Mexican restaurant and ordering chicken fajitas is the culinary equivalent of going to a jazz club and requesting Happy Birthday.
2026-05-30
Drinks & Dining
The 10 Best Food Instagram Accounts Worth Following
Food Instagram ranges from genuinely inspiring to offensively bad, and the algorithm does not care which is which.
2026-05-30
Drinks & Dining
Why the Food Court Is Undergoing a Renaissance
The food court of the 1990s was a fluorescent-lit graveyard of Panda Express, Sbarro, and Auntie Anne's.
2026-05-28
Drinks & Dining
How to Batch Cocktails for a Party Like a Pro
Making cocktails to order for a party is a fast track to spending the entire night behind a cutting board with a jigger in your hand.
2026-05-28
Drinks & Dining
Why You Should Learn to Ferment Something (Start with Kimchi)
Fermentation is one of the oldest food preservation techniques on the planet, and it requires almost no skill, no special equipment, and very little attention.
2026-05-27
Drinks & Dining
Why the Al Pastor Taco Is a Perfect Food
The al pastor taco is a fusion of two cultures that never intended to collaborate but created something transcendent anyway.
2026-05-27
Drinks & Dining
How to Build the Perfect Cheese Board (It's Not That Hard)
The perfect cheese board follows a simple formula: one soft, one semi-soft, one hard, and one blue.
2026-05-26