Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

Come for the bread-themed puppet show, stay for the buffet.

An on-site urban farm and fish pond supply some of the produce for this upscale restaurant.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.

This upscale restaurant specializing in Michoacán cuisine serves sauces tied to important life events.

An old curiosity shop holds on to a centuries-old tradition of manually-distilled rose water.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

This Jewish bakery, among the last in the region, sells legendary sweets from a century-old storefront.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.

Sample cuisine inspired by the Great Plains indigenous people who have been gathering at this sacred Canadian Heritage Park for 6,000 years.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

In her ancestral home, one chef preserves ancient Filipino recipes and serves up traditional, home-cooked food to history-loving foodies.