Discover 1451 Gastro Places

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

This solo operation offers the world's only whey wines in flavors such as chocolate-orange.

A ruthless Soviet relocation campaign birthed a new cuisine, and this humble restaurant.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

In the middle of one of South America's most historic walled cities lies a bar with an enormous collection of Soviet memorabilia.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

The headquarters of a pioneering cast iron and cast aluminum cookware company is in ruins, but still standing.

Two planes stand abandoned after the closure of an aircraft-themed restaurant.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

This grounded passenger jet is now a restaurant, complete with rows of seats and “flight attendant” servers.

Barbies stare from the walls, sit on the tables, and even pop out of cakes at this quirky cafe.