Food Festival Spotlights

A practical guide to building a trip around meals, markets, cooking classes, and regional specialties, so your best travel memories start at the table.

A repeatable food scouting method for finding memorable local meals: how to look past tourist lists, read a menu, ask locals, and plan a one-day eating route.

Heading to Pripyat, Kolmanskop, Craco or Bodie? Plan your meals around remote ruins with a packable picnic recipe and a simple routine for eating locally.

A practical pre-trip checklist for food-focused travelers: research markets, pack smart for edible souvenirs, and plan meals so logistics never get in the way...

Quirky bookstores make great travel stops. Here's how to build a day around one, pairing browsing with local food, markets, and a simple recipe to try at home.

Plan a food-led New Zealand trip: how to think about seafood, wine regions, Māori food traditions and farm-to-table stops, plus a simple pavlova-style recipe.

A practical way to build a trip around food: research local dishes, anchor days with markets or classes, book a few key tables, and leave room to wander.

Afar's list of 17 tree house hotels shows how treetop stays now include restaurants and spas. Here's how to pick one and plan the eating around it.

Before you book airport parking, check how the car park charges and build in a sensible buffer. A travel expert's simple timing tips to save you money.

Food is increasingly driving where people travel. Here's a practical way to build a trip around markets, street food, farms and local dining customs.

A practical planning guide for Canadians booking fall and winter getaways: how to budget for food, book early, and use rewards wisely before you travel.

Backroads is pointing active travelers to Krakow to Budapest and Egypt. Here's how to plan a food-focused active trip and what to taste along the way.