PETER FRANK EDWARDS/REDUX
10 TRAVEL+LEISURE | SEPTEMBER 2019
The Grey, in Savannah, Georgia, is one of 30 picks on our World’s Best Restaurants list (page 17).
CONTENTS
14 Letter from the Editor
World’s Best
Restaurants
17 We teamed up with our
partners at Food & Wine
to send one critic around
the world in search of the
best places to eat. After
flying more than 100,
miles, she delivered this
completely subjective,
totally wonderful list.
Experiences
51 THE CASE FOR CHARDONNAY^
A long weekend in Sonoma
County reveals how the
region has reinvigorated this
white wine’s reputation.
56 TAIPEI’S FOOD SCENE
HEATS UP Innovative chefs
are transforming Taiwan’s
capital into one of Asia’s
buzziest food cities.
62 THE COOK’S CARIBBEAN^
Nina Compton explores
Jamaica’s culinary
traditions—and visits stylish
resorts along the way.
64 MASSIMO, MODENA,
AND A NEW GAME IN TOWN
Chef Massimo Bottura and
his wife, Lara Gilmore, bring
modern art and familiar
dishes to a new Italian
guesthouse.
74 SMALL CITY, BIG APPETITE^
A diverse immigrant
population and a dose of
old-school moxie make
Providence an unlikely
dining mecca.
The A-List
81 Our annual curated list
of the world’s top travel
advisors, with experts for
every region and interest.
Departments
Features^120 DINING LIKE A MADRILEÑOIn a city of tradition,^
chefs are giving essential
Spanish dishes a
deliciously modern twist.
Your Best Shot
132 Reader Joe Ellett
photographs a sunny
breakfast spread in
Chefchaouen, Morocco.
100 AN AMERICAN STORY^
Unpretentious cooking
and fresh-air adventures
await at Tennessee’s
Blackberry Farm and
its new sister property,
Blackberry Mountain.
110 PERFECT PAIRING^
On a river cruise through
Bordeaux, two friends
reconnect over wine
and bike rides around
the bucolic French
countryside.
116 THE CHEF’S ISRAEL^
Twenty-five American
food icons eat their
way through the
promised land.
ON THE COVER
Subscriber: Plaza Mayor, in
Madrid (page 120). Photograph
by Carol Sachs. Newsstand:
Blackberry Mountain’s Firetower
restaurant (page 100).
Photograph by Marcus Nilsson.
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