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94 TIMESeptember 3–10, 2018

In 2017, Edouardo Jordan became the

irst black chef to win the James Beard

Award for Best New Restaurant

Serving truth

JUNEBABY,SEATTLE

FANTASY ISLAND

WARNER BROS. WORLD ABU DHABI,ABU DHABI

Few chefs serve food like

Edouardo Jordan, whose

Seattle eatery offers up

soul-food staples (pulled

pork, fried chicken, candied yams) while

educating diners about their complex

history. JuneBaby’s walls are lined with

artwork featuring slaves, and its website

includes an “encyclopedia” of menu

ingredients that explains, for example,

how corn bread became popular among

slaves. (It didn’t require a fork and a

knife.) “This is the food that fed a lot of

people to build America,” says Jordan,

a St. Petersburg, Fla., native who last

year became the irst black chef to win

the James Beard Award for Best New

Restaurant. “We shouldn’t hide that. We

should embrace it.”

—Ashley Hoffman

THE NEW

WORK-STAY
TRIBE PERTH,
PERTH, AUSTRALIA

LURING

MILLENNIALS

ABOARD
THEA

Opened last year in
laid-back Western
Australia, Tribe brings
a taste of affordable
luxury to the tech-
savvy, co-working
generation. The
property—branded
as “part collaborative
workspace, part
social club”—does
away with perks like
concierges and room
service in favor of
sleek design and
no-fuss check-ins,
with rooms starting
at $120 per night.
—Suyin Haynes

U by Uniworld’s
millennial-focused
cruises nixed a
21-to-45 age limit,
but they’re still a
far cry from sedate
river tours of old. U’s
black-hulled ship,
simply calledA,
oficially debuted
in April, sailing on
the Rhine, Main
and Danube rivers.
It’s “part boutique
hotel, part yacht,
part local hot spot,”
the company says.
Replete with photo
booth and farm-
to-table cuisine,
A docks at hip
European cities for
fun day excursions.
—Joseph Hincks

THE WORLD’S GREATEST PLACES 2018

The United Arab Emirates

became home to two of the

world’s largest indoor theme

parks when Warner Bros. World

opened in July. The Abu Dhabi Yas

Island park—which cost $1 billion

to build and spreads across 38 acres,

just a little smaller than the garden

of Buckingham Palace—is designed

to entertain all kinds of Warner

Bros. fans and also ofer them a

reprieve from the region’s often

sweltering heat. Attractions are

grouped into six “neighborhoods,”

including Gotham and Metropolis

(from the DC Comics universe,

featuring superheroes like Batman,

Superman and Wonder Woman)

and Dynamite Gulch and Cartoon

Junction (with animated classics

such as Road Runner andLooney

Tunes).—Gabby Raymond