(CHICAGO) - Sunda can pack over 200 guests into its whimsical, sexy dining room. And yet even a restaurant of this size, and with these good looks, can’t compete with the attention garnered by its proprietor Billy Dec....

(SAN FRANCISCO) - There are many things to admire about Contigo, from the small-but-not-crowded interior full of reclaimed wood to the lovely covered patio and kitchen garden, but it is the brightness of the food—the vividness and freshness of...

(LONDON) - British-born food writer and Gourmet contributor Fuchsia Dunlop is an outstanding communicator of Chinese food culture to westerners.

(SEATTLE) - Who could resist ordering sausage-stuffed red mullet?

(PARIS) - Though it’s being lionized by the French press, Yam’Tcha, the hottest new restaurant in Paris, is actually more of a pussycat than a ferocious beast.

This week, Catalan flavors in San Francisco, pan-Asian in Chicago, and a salmonless-in-Seattle seafood restaurant; plus the Gourmet contributor behind a new London hot spot, and the place to eat in Paris right now....

(LOS ANGELES) - Susan Feniger’s new project captures the warmth and culinary excitement in its menu, which reads like a world tour of street food.

(LOS ANGELES) - The first time I went to Umami Burger it was six weeks old, which is irritating because that meant I had lost five weeks and six days of eating at L.A.’s newest best hamburger joint.

(LOS ANGELES) - Go to The Varnish for a dimly lit, mahogany-paneled drinking experience that feels part Los Angeles Prohibition-era dream, part cocktail-purist-gets-his-own-exclusive-clubhouse.

(NEW YORK CITY) - In times like these nothing feels quite so comforting as a little piece of the past. That’s the charm of Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter’s just-opened Monkey Bar.