The Places · Page 179
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01.Winery
Cottanera
Castiglione di Sicilia, Italy
Cottanera is a Castiglione di Sicilia winery in Contrada Iannazzo, combining polished Etna DOC wines, strong hospitality infrastructure and volcanic vineyards on the northern slope.
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Sweet Rose Creamery
Los Angeles, United States
Sweet Rose Creamery on Santa Monica's 26th Street has been a reference point in Los Angeles's artisan ice cream scene since its early years, occupying a tier defined by seasonal sourcing and small-batch production rather than volume or novelty. In a city where dessert culture skews toward spectacle, it holds a quieter position: a neighborhood shop with a loyal following built on ingredient transparency and rotating flavors tied to California's produce calendar.
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Azienda Agricola Sciara
Randazzo, Italy
Azienda Agricola Sciara is the canonical winery behind the user-requested Stef Yim entry. Based in Randazzo, Sciara Volcanic Winery centers on Yim's high-altitude Etna project, with natural-leaning production and wines that foreground Nerello Mascalese, Carricante and the volcanic identity of Contrada Taccione.
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Yann Couvreur Café
Miami, United States
Yann Couvreur Café brings the Paris-trained pastry tradition of its namesake chef to Wynwood's creative corridor at 2243 NW 2nd Ave. The café sits at an intersection of French technique and Miami's growing appetite for ingredient-conscious, low-waste food culture. For visitors tracking the city's more considered dining alternatives, it marks a distinct point of difference from the neighbourhood's louder, higher-volume options.
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05.Bar
Blue Ribbon Brasserie
New York City, United States
Blue Ribbon Brasserie on Sullivan Street has anchored SoHo's late-night dining scene since the early 1990s, drawing a cross-section of off-duty chefs, neighbourhood regulars, and occasion diners with a format that runs deep into the night. The kitchen leans on a wide-ranging American brasserie menu, and the room has the earned ease of somewhere that has never needed to reinvent itself.
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06.Bar
Common House
Charlottesville, United States
Common House at 206 W Market St occupies a considered position in Charlottesville's social fabric, part members' club, part gathering place for the city's creative and professional community. The format places it in a category that has grown across mid-sized American cities: spaces that function less like traditional bars and more like civic infrastructure for regulars who want to eat, drink, and linger with purpose.
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07.Winery
Domaine Marc Colin
Saint-Aubin, France
Damien Colin runs extended-élevage Burgundy whites from Saint-Aubin. Classical peer set with Ramonet and Niellon. Marc Colin lineage since 1970.
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Corto Lima
Lexington, United States
On West Short Street in downtown Lexington, Corto Lima occupies a stretch of the city's most active dining corridor and represents the broader shift in Kentucky's mid-sized cities toward Latin-inflected menus. The address places it among a cluster of independently operated restaurants and bars that have redefined what eating out in Lexington means over the past decade. It draws a consistent crowd from both the university and the city's growing professional population.
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09.Winery
Vinícola 3 Mujeres
Francisco Zarco, Mexico
Vinícola 3 Mujeres sits along the Ruta del Vino corridor in Francisco Zarco, Baja California, one of Mexico's most active wine-producing zones. The name signals something deliberate: a project shaped by female perspective in a region where that remains a minority voice. Visitors arrive for both the wines and the chance to experience Valle de Guadalupe viticulture outside the larger commercial operations.
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Aramasa Shuzo
Akita, Japan
Founded in 1852, Aramasa Shuzo brews sake at its Omachi home in Akita City.
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NETA
Logoche, Mexico
Cándido García Cruz is winemaker at NETA in Logoche, shaping single-batch agave spirits through Quiotudo Espadín, carefully there.
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12.Winery
Mogor Badan Winery
Tecate, Mexico
Mogor Badan sits on the Ensenada-Tecate corridor in Baja California, one of Mexico's most serious wine-producing regions. The winery occupies a working agricultural estate where Mediterranean-influenced microclimates and granite-laced soils drive production decisions more than trend cycles. For visitors tracing Baja's wine identity beyond the valley floor, it represents a distinct point of reference.
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13.Distillery
Abbey Lands Distillery
Whitby, United Kingdom
Abbey Lands Distillery operates on the North Yorkshire coast in Whitby, a town whose maritime character and North Sea exposure give its spirits a distinct regional footing. As coastal whisky production develops as a category across Britain, Abbey Lands represents Whitby's entry into a conversation long dominated by Scottish and Irish producers. Visitors arrive for the distillery experience and the geographical story it tells through its spirits.
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14.Winery
Tenuta Brancalupo
Montefalco, Italy
Tenuta Brancalupo is a winery estate in Montefalco, the Umbrian hill town that produces Sagrantino di Montefalco, one of Italy's most tannic and age-worthy red wines. The estate sits within a designation where small producers increasingly define the conversation around native grape varieties and terroir-led viticulture.
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Niizawa Sake Brewery — Kawasaki Brewery
Kawasaki, Japan
Niizawa Sake Brewery produces its food-focused Hakurakusei and related sake at Kawasaki Brewery in Miyagi.
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Seppelt
Grampians, Australia
Seppelt is a heritage-led Grampians winery where the cellar door is only part of the point. The draw is The Drives, a 3-kilometre underground cellar network begun in 1865, with guided tastings, cave tours, Foundation Wines pairings, lawns and café-style hospitality shaping a visit built around place as much as wine.
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17.Italian-based Farm-to-Table with Local Toyama Ingredients
SAYS FARM
Himi, Japan
セイズファーム runs an upscale casual, quietly paced dining room in Himi with vineyard, waterfront, and mountain views; lunch and dinner fit a slower plan, with sake service.
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18.Winery
Red Hook Barrel Yard
Brooklyn, United States
Red Hook Barrel Yard belongs to Brooklyn’s working-edge drinking culture, where production spaces, waterfront warehouses, and tasting rooms sit closer to maker economies than polished Midtown hospitality. With no published database details for hours, pricing, awards, or winemaking, the editorial value is contextual: use it as a lens on how urban wine and spirits venues translate place when the vineyard is elsewhere and the barrel room is in Brooklyn.
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19.Hotel
Blakes Hotel
London, United Kingdom
Blakes Hotel on Roland Gardens has shaped South Kensington's approach to intimate, design-forward hospitality since Anouska Hempel opened it in 1978. The property sits in a quiet residential square, a deliberate counterpoint to the grand-lobby hotels of Mayfair, and has long attracted guests who treat the retreat-like atmosphere as the primary draw rather than a secondary feature.
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20.Bar
Hotel San Francisco
San Francisco, United States
Hotel San Francisco is a scenic, sophisticated hotel bar in the Embarcadero, opening with zero-waste cocktails.
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21.Hotel
Mandalay Bay
Paradise, United States
Mandalay Bay anchors the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip with a scale and resort breadth that few properties on the corridor can match. The 3,200-room complex combines a casino floor, a 1.6-million-gallon wave pool, a dedicated convention center, and a dining roster that spans quick-service to sit-down. For travelers who want Las Vegas at full volume, it delivers the format in one address.
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22.Bar
Rosewild
Fargo, United States
On Broadway North in downtown Fargo, Rosewild occupies a stretch of street that has drawn serious independent operators away from the city's more predictable dining corridors. It sits in a local scene defined by a small cohort of chef-driven rooms, where proximity to the Red River Valley's agricultural identity shapes both menus and ambience. For visitors coming from outside the Northern Plains, Rosewild represents a useful entry point into how Fargo's dining culture has matured.
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23.Winery
Harper’s Rest
Healdsburg, United States
Harper's Rest operates in Healdsburg, one of Sonoma County's most wine-forward towns, where the Alexander Valley and Dry Creek AVAs shape both the glass and the table. Positioned within a dining scene that takes terroir seriously, it draws from the region's deep agricultural roots and its tradition of pairing seasonal California cooking with estate-grown wines from the surrounding hills.
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24.Bar
The Butcher's Daughter
New York City, United States
On Kenmare Street in Nolita, The Butcher's Daughter occupies a corner of downtown Manhattan where plant-forward eating and a carefully assembled drinks program intersect. The café draws a steady crowd looking for something more considered than the neighborhood's typical bistro fare, with a menu and back bar that reward repeat visitors across seasons.
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Roe & Co Distillery
Dublin, Ireland
Roe & Co Distillery occupies a restored Victorian power station on James's Street in The Liberties, the historic heart of Dublin's whiskey trade. The site anchors a broader revival of Irish whiskey culture in a neighbourhood that once housed some of the world's most productive distilleries. It is both a working distillery and an immersive visitor experience in one of Dublin's most historically loaded postcodes.
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Vini Franchetti Passopisciaro
Passopisciaro, Italy
Vini Franchetti Passopisciaro is Andrea Franchetti’s Etna estate in Passopisciaro, known for reviving high-altitude lava terraces and bottling expressive Nerello Mascalese contrada wines.
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Casa Tequilera de Arandas
Arandas, Mexico
Casa Tequilera de Arandas is the Jalisco tequila facility registered as NOM 1499, the authorized producer currently associated with Mijenta.
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28.Winery
Perlée
Dundee, United States
Perlée is a newly opened winery in Dundee Hills, Oregon.
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29.Bar
sketch
London, United Kingdom
Sketch occupies a Georgian townhouse on Conduit Street that has been subdivided into some of London's most architecturally singular dining and drinking rooms. From the pod-lined Glade to the pink-upholstered Gallery, the space operates as a kind of permanent installation that happens to serve food and cocktails. It sits in a comparable set defined less by cuisine category than by total experiential commitment.
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Bornholm Distillery
Rønne, Denmark
Bornholm Distillery is Martin Kofoed’s small-batch distillery in Rønne, making gin, aquavit, and fruit spirits with island ingredients.
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31.Bar
Revelers Hall
Dallas, United States
Revelers Hall sits on North Bishop Avenue in Dallas's Oak Cliff neighborhood, occupying a corner of the city's most quietly serious bar scene. The format leans toward neighborhood gathering point rather than destination cocktail theater, positioning it among a comparable set that values consistency and atmosphere over spectacle. For visitors and locals alike, it functions as a reliable anchor on a stretch that rewards slow evenings.
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Transmitter Brewing
Brooklyn, United States
Transmitter Brewing makes Belgian-inspired farmhouse ales at its brewery, taproom, and beer garden in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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Cervecería del Valle Sagrado
Ollantaytambo, Peru
Cervecería del Valle Sagrado brews award-winning Peruvian craft beer from local ingredients at its Pachar home near Ollantaytambo.
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34.Bar
Rice Vice by Proper Sake Co.
Nashville, United States
Rice Vice by Proper Sake Co. occupies a specific niche in Nashville's drinking scene: a sake-forward bar operating under the Proper Sake Co. banner at 3109 Ambrose Ave in the city's north side. The food and drink pairing programme here reflects a broader American interest in Japanese fermentation culture, positioning it well outside the honky-tonk circuit that defines most of Nashville's bar identity.
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35.Bar
Crispy Gai
Portland, United States
On Exchange Street in Portland, Maine, Crispy Gai occupies a spot in the Old Port's increasingly confident drinking and dining scene. The bar draws a mix of regulars and visitors looking for something more considered than the neighbourhood's louder options, anchoring itself as a community fixture rather than a destination curio. For a city still shaping its cocktail identity, it represents a useful reference point.
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36.Winery
Bodegas Magoni
Ensenada, Mexico
Bodegas Magoni sits at Km 83 on the Tecate–El Sauzal highway, one of Baja California's established wine estates operating in a growing region that has drawn serious international attention over the past two decades. The address places it in the corridor that defines Ensenada's wine identity, where Mediterranean climate and granite soils produce conditions closer to parts of southern Spain than anything else in North America.
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Jester King Brewery
Austin, United States
Set on a working farm along Fitzhugh Road southwest of Austin, Jester King Brewery occupies a stretch of Texas Hill Country where wild fermentation, open-air gathering, and a commitment to place-driven brewing converge. The physical setting defines the experience as much as what's in the glass: rough cedar, rusted corrugated metal, and grazing land that doubles as context for the beer. It belongs to a small tier of American craft producers where geography is genuinely the ingredient.
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38.Winery
Mountain Ridge Winery
Shoalhaven Heads, Australia
Mountain Ridge Winery belongs to the coastal Shoalhaven Heads conversation, where wine is read through salt air, river flats, dairy country and the slower rhythm of the South Coast. With limited public data on awards, pricing and cellar-door logistics, the useful lens is regional: a visit here should be planned as part of a wider Shoalhaven itinerary rather than judged against trophy-driven inland estates.
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Tenuta Saiano — Olfattorio
Poggio Torriana, Italy
Tenuta Saiano — Olfattorio is DiBALDO's spirits laboratory inside a visitor-facing estate in Poggio Torriana.
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40.Winery
Vino Petrič
Slap, Slovenia
Vino Petrič is a heritage winery in Slap with a family line dating to 1778 and a cellar culture built around Vipava Valley identity. Expect guided tastings, local food pairing, indigenous grapes such as Zelen and Pinela, and a relaxed historic setting that suits travelers who want wine tourism with regional context rather than a generic tasting-room stop.
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41.Winery
The Factory House
Porto, Portugal
The Factory House is one of Porto's most historically charged wine addresses, a Georgian-era merchants' hall on Rua Infante Dom Henrique that has operated as a private British trade institution since the eighteenth century. Port wine has been poured and debated here longer than most modern lodges have existed. For those with access, it offers an unmediated encounter with the fortified wine tradition at its institutional source.
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42.Bar
Bravery Chef Hall
Houston, United States
Bravery Chef Hall at 409 Travis St occupies a food hall format in downtown Houston, positioning it within the city's growing market for multi-concept dining under one roof. The format suits grazing, solo lunch stops, and group visits where preferences diverge. For context on the wider Houston dining scene, see our full city coverage.
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43.Winery
Bressan Mastri Vinai
Farra D Isonzo, Italy
Bressan Mastri Vinai is a small, family-run estate in Farra d’Isonzo with roots traced to 1726 and a cellar identity built around Friulian varieties, still wines, and natural-leaning production. The appeal is not spectacle but terroir read through tradition: quiet tastings, vineyard context, and a country-estate mood shaped by Isonzo and Collio influences.
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Cervecería Aguamala
Ensenada, Mexico
Cervecería Aguamala is an independent Baja brewery and tasting room on the Tijuana-Ensenada road in El Sauzal.
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Carakale Brewing Company
Amman, Jordan
Carakale Brewing Company makes Jordanian craft beer at its purpose-built Blue Valley brewery west of Amman.
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The Yeatman Hotel
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
The Yeatman Hotel sits above the Port wine lodges of Vila Nova de Gaia, on the southern bank of the Douro, positioned at the intersection of Portugal's most significant wine region and one of its most ambitious hotel dining programmes. The property's cellar, restaurant, and bar together represent the most wine-forward hospitality format in the Porto metropolitan area, drawing guests across the river from the city's established hotel quarter.
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Nelson's Green Brier Distillery
Nashville, United States
Nelson's Green Brier Distillery sits at 1414 Clinton St in Nashville's Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood, occupying a working production facility that doubles as a visitor experience. The distillery revives a pre-Prohibition Tennessee whiskey lineage, positioning it in a different tier from Nashville's bar-heavy honky-tonk corridor. For visitors interested in provenance-driven spirits rather than cocktail theatre, it represents a more grounded entry point into the city's drinks culture.
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48.Winery
Château de Ferrand
Saint-Émilion, France
Château de Ferrand suits smart-casual visits in Saint-Émilion, where quiet vineyard and garden views frame organic, sustainable estate experiences.
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Wuliangye
Yibin, China
Wuliangye's Yibin estate is the historic production center for its five-grain strong-aroma baijiu.
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50.Winery
Vena Cava
Ensenada, Mexico
Vena Cava sits on Rancho San Marcos in the Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California's wine-producing corridor southeast of Ensenada. The winery operates from an address in Ejido Francisco Zarco, the agricultural heart of Mexico's most recognised wine region, and represents the Valle's shift toward production that earns attention beyond the domestic market. Plan ahead: the Valle draws serious visitors from across North America, particularly between July and October.
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51.Bar
Maverick Distilling
San Antonio, United States
A craft distillery at 115 Broadway in downtown San Antonio, Maverick Distilling occupies the convergence of Texas agricultural tradition and contemporary spirits production. The address places it squarely within the city's historic core, where the distilling revival has taken root alongside the broader bar scene that now draws comparison to more established cocktail cities. Worth tracking for anyone mapping the local spirits trail.
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52.Hotel
Grand Hyatt Doha Hotel & Villas
Doha, Qatar
On Pearl Boulevard, Grand Hyatt Doha Hotel & Villas occupies one of the peninsula's most architecturally ambitious positions, where resort-scale facilities meet a villa format rarely found this close to the city centre. The property sits within The Pearl-Qatar, Doha's purpose-built luxury island district, placing it in a competitive tier that includes the Four Seasons and Fairmont but with a distinct residential scale.
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Destilería Andina
Ollantaytambo, Peru
Destilería Andina’s main Sacred Valley site in Pachar combines its working distillery with tours, a bar, restaurant, café, and shop.
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54.Winery
Domaine Buisson-Charles
Meursault, France
Patrick Essa's 2022 relaunch of Domaine Buisson-Charles brings indigenous-yeast, minimal-sulfur Meursault white inside the Côte de Beaune.
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