The Gourmet Byo
What makes dining in the best restaurants even better? Washing down the food with your favourite wine. A selection of renowned London restaurants do free corkage once a week (Hawksmoor, Hix and Foxlow included), while most – like the two Michelin-starred Ledbury – will let you bring your own bottle for a corkage fee. All the more reason to get in an extra case of Pétrus from fine wine connoisseurs Corney & Barrow.
The Pintxos Crawl
You can’t move for Michelin-starred restaurants in Northern Spain’s jewel-box city San Sebastián, but real foodies know the best bites come from a txakoli-wine-fuelled night hopping between the city’s crowded pintxos bars. The sophisticated local tapas range from the gourmet – slow-cooked beef cheek at La Cuchara de San Telmo – to the downright naughty.
The Food Market
Creamy Quebec cheeses are piled high next to premium caviar, corn husks for tamale-making jostle with home-baked rhubarb tarts – you can eat the world at Toronto’s St Lawrence Market, a two-level foodhall on the Canadian city’s lakefront. Nibble your way from Chile to Cambodia at resident food stalls, then join the lunch-breaking locals queueing for Carousel Bakery’s legendary peameal bacon sandwich.
