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158 Ways To Satisfy Your Appetite
Around The World
Dear Dining Enthusiast,
There are few things more disappointing when you're
traveling than a bad meal. It feels like a complete waste of your
time and money.
You just know that within a few blocks of where
you ended up, there's probably a fabulous spot that only the locals
know about&a place that you would have talked about for
years to come&told all your friends about&and no one
else.
But how do you find these gems?
When Food
Matters&
You Have To Take Matters Into Your Own Hands
The place only locals know about...
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That's exactly why we undertook a massive--and delicious--research
project. And we want to share the results of our substantial efforts
with you now.
It was a tough assignment requiring guts and commitment¬
to mention a willingness to eat our way around the world several
times over! But we emerged victorious--and now you can share in
our discoveries and recommendations as part of our special report:
The World's Best Restaurants.
Our only criteria for this special report was that
the food and the dining experience were simply "the best"
we could find. And they are.
Some of them are the cheapest, some the most romantic.
Others are flamboyant, while a few are secret hideaways. Here
are just a few examples of what you'll find:
Join in a sing-a-long
in Germany accompanied by a sampling of some of the best of the
country's traditional fare &
Drink wine tapped right from the
barrel and enjoy the warmth of genuine Greek hospitality and some
of the best food in Athens&
Choose your dining partner carefully
when you pull up to the best oyster bar in Galway, Ireland-just
a stone's throw away lies the world's richest oyster bed, sending
your aphrodisiac level off the charts&
Find out why Rome conferred the
status of national monument to a café in 1953. Odds are
if it inspired the likes of Goethe, Benjamin Franklin, Orson Welles,
Federico Fellini, and Mark Twain, surely you will get a lift,
too&
Get hooked on lobster soup in Copenhagen
as you dine canal-side and savor some of the best views the city
has to offer&
Rub elbows with foreign journalists
in Cairo and see for yourself how much fun life can be when your
drink is strong, the live music is even more intoxicating, and
you are surrounded by the best belly dancers in town&
If you're late for your dinner
of tender roasted duck with carmelized pears on the panoramic
47th floor atop Sydney's Australia Square Tower, don't despair-the
building also offers the world's fastest elevators to zoom you
to the top&
Eat cheap in Boston (no kidding!)
at the restaurant with no name, no wine list, and long family-style
communal tables-brush up on a few good jokes before you go to
share with your dinner companions&
Discover exotic pancakes in Nicaragua
served with fresh-squeezed juices of melon, orange, papaya, or
pineapple-as well as some of the friendliest expat chat in Granada&
You'll
Never Eat A Dull Meal Again
Some people plan their trips according to the sights
they want to see. Others travel to see family and friends. Then,
there are those of us who are led to our destinations by our stomachs.
You know who you are.
You scour tour books endlessly to find the best
spots. Grill the concierge of your hotel mercilessly to get sent
beyond the regular tourist traps. Even wander aimlessly through
cobblestone streets&because you know the best places are
hidden in the back alleys.
Finally, you can relax a little once you have a
reliable resource for finding the gems on every shore&.
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Starbucks eat your heart out...
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Starbucks, Eat
Your Heart Out: Discover a café in
Vienna that puts the iced mocha latte's you get stateside to shame.
From straight Turkish coffee served up in a traditional copper
pot&to strong black coffee with an egg yolk and brandy&or
topped off with whipped cream and a small glass of rum&one
sip and die-hard coffee lovers will be hooked.
Help For The Broken-Hearted:
Lovelorn from all over the world trek to a famous Prague restaurant
where rumor has it (and the proprietor's claim a 100% success
rate) the mere touch of a famous portrait can heal any lover's
woe-or maybe it's the killer goulash and pear strudel that comforts?
You be the judge&
Zurich's Celebrity
Hangout: Does dining alongside the likes
of Yves Saint-Laurent, Catherine Deneuve, and Placido Domingo
make the food taste better? Some say yes, while others contend
the regional dishes, such as smoked pork with lentils and bollito
misto, are the best Switzerland has to offer no matter who else
is in the dining room.
The Best Curry
in Mumbai: That
is no small claim, considering that curry is India's claim to
culinary fame&
Tokyo's Most Tender
Eel: No joke, this restaurant
is so serious about its eel dishes, that it boasts two completely
separate entrances: one for standard Japanese food, and the other
for meals of eel only.
A Surprise in
the Deep South: If you thought the best of
southern cuisine was greasy truck stop fare served with a country
music backdrop, Nashville's "Most Romantic Restaurant"
will be a surprising delight. This seven-course affair ends with
the waiter setting a cognac and triple-sec-drenched orange peel
alight and adding coffee to create a citrus-y, sweet concoction.
And as often as not, a tear-streaked engagement at surrounding
tables, or even your own&
Eat Like
Royalty&Or Like Locals
It's Your Choice
In The World's Best Restaurants, you will
find an assortment of culinary experiences fit to satisfy both
the prince and the pauper in you.
&dine
on a floating restaurant in Chile that serves the finest champagne
brunch for under $10.
&revel in
a touch of Paris for under $10 per person&on Granada's Left
Bank in Nicaragua.
&spit champagne
alongside the Queen of Sweden at the restaurant found in the Guinness
Book of World Records for having the most complete wine cellar.
&savor a romantic
three-hour meal in Paris topped off with an intoxicating soufflé
au chocolat that will set you back $200.
&feast on
gourmet dishes in the Caribbean such as tuna with roasted crab
and fennel, seafood salad poached in vermouth, or squid ink pasta
that are so cheap you'll feel guilty when you pay your bill.
&reserve a
table at some of the finest and most exclusive establishments
in Europe that can take months of planning ahead to set foot in
the door.
Starting now, you can enjoy any kind of meal, at any price point,
in any city around the world and rest assured that it will be
the best in its class. And all it takes to have this special
report rushed to you right away is a one-time payment of $14.95
Finding
The Best Has Never Been Simpler&Or More Assured
Imagine, no need to spend a small fortune tipping
the concierge for a decent recommendation. No need to purchase
three guidebooks per trip and sift through countless tourist traps
to land just one semi-secret spot worth your time and money.
When you receive your own personal copy of this
special report, you can dine with confidence, knowing that every
single one of the top 158 places we'll recommend will be worthy
of your travel time and energy to check out.
Are there more places to dine in the world, in addition
to our personal favorites? Of course there are&and we trust
over time you will discover them and share your finds with us.
After all, that's how this report was compiled&dozens of
our staff and correspondents from around the world went out looking
for the best dining experiences they could find&and we pulled
them all together in one quick, convenient, and quirky place for
you to enjoy.
Let us rush you The World's Best Restaurants
today and you can feel confident that when it comes to finding
the right place to eat, at the right time, for the right meal&you
have somewhere reliable to turn.
Bon Appetit!
Kathleen Peddicord
Publisher, International Living
P.S. Don't settle for mediocrity-order your own personal copy
of The World's Best Restaurants today, while supplies
last. Life is too short-and the cuisine around the world is too
good-to spend even one mediocre meal wishing you'd found someplace
better.
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