Gastro Obscura's Top 20 Places to Eat and Drink

"For this chef, an active volcano is his oven."

"Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center."

"Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall."

"One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home."

"An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat."

"Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide."

"By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos."

"An English brewery transported to North Korea."

"At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself."

"At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years."

"Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam."

"Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan."

"An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants."

"The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway."

"Calumet Fisheries: One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft." "

"A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin."

"Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest."

"Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3."