Traveling Table: Austin

Classic comfort comes to the Lone Star capital

In a few short years, Austin's food scene has exploded, boasting refined restaurants that don't sacrifice a Texan essential: comfort. Below, your approachable edible...

Traveling Table: San Francisco

There's so much more than sourdough

Contigo In sleepy Noe Valley, chef Brett Emerson cooks an unsung regional Spanish cuisine--that of Catalonia in the country's northeast. He turns out cocas (topped flatbreads; $16)...

Traveling Table: San Diego

Four newcomers are boosting SoCal's culinary cred

Farm House Café At this countrified South Park restaurant, French-born chef Olivier Bioteau pays homage to his roots with contemporary cuisine steeped in classic technique....

Traveling Table: Montreal

A carnivore's graze through the city's meaty streets

Au Cinquième Péché French-born chef Benoît Lenglet's buzzy Plateau bistro swells with locals and roving European tourists who want to sample seal meat (which...

Traveling Table: New Orleans

Young guns shake things up in the Big Easy

New Orleans is full of reliable institutions, but right now, the city's most exciting meals are being cooked in upstart restaurants helmed by a new generation of chefs. Here are...

Traveling Table: Portland, Oregon

Four scene-stealers in the Northwest's culinary capital

DOC Don't let this restaurant's window-front larder fool you: There's a jewel-box-size dining room hidden inside. Intimate? Very much so: Diners practically sit in the open kitchen...