Porto - The Pipa

Porto - The Pipa

Porto's best table sits above the port wine lodges in Gaia. Its most interesting bar is in Bonfim. And the pipa — the 550-litre oak barrel that defines an entire...
Kotor - The Boka
Kotor's walled Old Town sits at the innermost point of the Bay of Kotor, where Venetian fortifications climb directly up the cliff face. A guide to eating, drinking, and moving... Read more...
Ljubljana - The River Turn
Ljubljana follows the curve of the Ljubljanica through its old town, with a castle above, a Michelin-recognised food scene, and a natural wine culture sourced from the Karst and Vipava... Read more...
Tbilisi - The Qvevri
Tbilisi makes its case slowly, through ancient wine buried in clay, sulfur baths in the old city, and a food culture that has been left alone long enough to develop... Read more...
Trieste - The Bora
Trieste holds the corner where Italy, Slovenia, and the Adriatic converge. A Canard guide to the Habsburg port city where coffee has its own language and the Bora has its... Read more...
Ghent - Three Towers
From the Korenmarkt, three medieval towers align in a single sightline. Ghent has 70,000 students, two Michelin-starred restaurants worth travelling for, and more than 500 beers on one bar's list. Read more...
Plovdiv - The Revival Quarter
Plovdiv’s Old Town piles across three steep hills above the Thracian Plain, its Revival-era houses and Roman amphitheatre framing a creative city that operates well below the usual travel radar. Read more...
Tallinn - The Tower Table
Inside the medieval walls of Vanalinn and out to Port Noblessner, Tallinn runs one of Europe’s most quietly compelling food scenes. A guide to Estonia’s most distinctive city. Read more...
Matera - The Sassi
A curated guide to Matera in Basilicata, where cave hotels in the ancient sassi districts, Michelin-listed restaurants inside vaulted stone caverns, and more than a hundred and fifty Byzantine churches... Read more...