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Best Cafés & Restaurants Worth the Trip to Shop Now: Coffee Shops, Brunch Spots, Iconic Eats & Bakeries — New York, Los Angeles, Paris & More
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items Some places are worth planning a whole trip around. This list gathers specialty coffee shops, beloved brunch spots, iconic dining rooms and bakeries that food lovers talk about long after the trip — from New York and Los Angeles to Paris and beyond. ...
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Specialty Coffee & Café Culture
Brunch & Breakfast Favorites
Iconic Restaurants Worth Booking
Bakeries & Sweet Stops
Specialty Coffee & Café Culture
Slow mornings done right: carefully brewed specialty coffee, beautiful café rooms and the kind of places that make a city feel like home for an hour or two.
Blue Bottle Coffee is known for precise, single-origin brewing and calm, design-led cafés across New York, Los Angeles and beyond. It is worth it for travelers who want a consistently excellent cup and a quiet moment before a busy day of sightseeing.
Blue Bottle Coffee
% Arabica Kyoto Higashiyama is known for its minimalist design, Kyoto-style pour-overs and lattes served in the brand's signature white cups. It is worth it for coffee lovers who want a calm, beautifully crafted stop in one of Kyoto's most atmospheri...
% ARABICA Kyoto Higashiyama
Café de Flore is known as one of Paris's most storied cafés, a Saint-Germain landmark where writers and artists once gathered over coffee. It is worth it for the classic Paris café atmosphere, people-watching from the terrace and a proper French coff...
Café de Flore
The Butcher's Daughter is known for bright, plant-forward café food and juices in a light, airy space that works equally well for coffee or a long brunch. It is worth it for travelers who want fresh, vegetable-led dishes and a relaxed spot to start t...
The Butcher's Daughter
Brunch & Breakfast Favorites
Lazy, generous mornings: eggs, pastries and long tables — the brunch spots that turn breakfast into the best meal of the trip.
Buvette is known for its tiny, charming French gastrothèque rooms in New York and Paris, serving classic eggs, tartines and wine by the glass. It is worth it for a slow, European-style brunch that feels like a little escape in the middle of the city.
Buvette
Jack's Wife Freda is known for its warm, buzzy dining rooms and Mediterranean-meets-New York brunch — green shakshuka, rosewater waffles and strong coffee. It is worth it for a lively, generous brunch that feels like a New York classic.
Jack's Wife Freda
Granger & Co is known for bright, Australian-style all-day dining in Notting Hill, with famous ricotta hotcakes, fresh juices and a sunny room. It is worth it for a relaxed London brunch that locals and visitors both queue for.
Granger and Co
Breakfast Republic is known for big, indulgent San Diego breakfasts — famous for its pancake flights, chilaquiles and Bloody Marys downtown. It is worth it for a classic American brunch with generous portions and a lively, sunny room.
Breakfast Republic
Iconic Restaurants Worth Booking
The rooms and dishes people travel for: legendary slices, storied dining rooms and one-of-a-kind meals worth booking ahead.
Joe's Pizza is known for the classic New York slice — thin, foldable and famously consistent since 1975. It is worth it for anyone who wants the definitive first bite of New York pizza, ideally at the original Carmine Street counter or the Broadway s...
Joe's Pizza Broadway
Dishoom is known for its Bombay café atmosphere and unmissable dishes — black dal, bacon naan rolls and chai that people plan their London mornings around. It is worth it for a warm, theatrical meal that feels like a trip within the trip.
Dishoom Covent Garden
Katz's Delicatessen is known for its towering pastrami on rye, hand-carved at the counter in a deli that has served New York since 1888. It is worth it for the full old-school experience — the ticket system, the bustle and one of the great sandwiches...
Katz's Delicatessen
Le Relais de l'Entrecôte is known for its one-dish menu — steak frites with a secret-recipe sauce, served in two helpings in a classic Paris dining room. It is worth it for the delicious simplicity: no menu decisions, just a perfect Parisian ritual.
Le Relais de l’Entrecôte
Bakeries & Sweet Stops
Flour, butter, sugar and patience: legendary croissants, cronuts and pastries from bakeries that are destinations in their own right.
Dominique Ansel Bakery is known for inventing the Cronut — the croissant-doughnut hybrid that sparked queues around the block — plus delicate pastries and hot chocolate. It is worth it for the inventive, beautiful baking that made a SoHo bakery world...
Dominique Ansel Bakery
Du Pain et des Idées is known for some of Paris's finest breads and pastries — its escargot chocolat-pistache and flaky croissants are the stuff of bakery pilgrimages. It is worth it for a taste of old Paris baking at its absolute best.
Du Pain et des Idées
Demel is known as Vienna's imperial konditorei, serving Sachertorte, strudel and ornate cakes in a gilded, historic café near the Hofburg. It is worth it for the elegant old-Vienna ritual — coffee, cake and a little grandeur.
Demel Vienna cafe
Tartine Bakery is known for its crackling-crust country bread and the morning buns and croissants that draw lines down Guerrero Street. It is worth it for the definitive San Francisco bakery experience — rustic, generous and deeply satisfying.
Tartine Bakery