A Michelin food guide-inspired gourmet food trail across Dubai’s inventive restaurants

A Michelin food guide-inspired gourmet food trail across Dubai’s inventive restaurants

In Dubai luxury is casual. A grocery run in a Lamborghini, Wagyu in mall burgers, sharks in a lobby. And a Refik Anadol multimedia artwork providing a languid backdrop to the reception of the hotel Indigo Dubai Downtown.  Titled Winds of Dubai, the intriguingly moody art showcases vivid three-dimensional sculptures from an expansive dataset of […]

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25 of the USA’s most underrated destinations | CNN

25 of the USA’s most underrated destinations | CNN

CNN  —  Disney World, Times Square and Yellowstone National Park can be packed to the rafters with tourists. But there are plenty of other places across the United States that continue to fly beneath the travel radar. While there are literally hundreds of locations that fit that description, here are 25 destinations – from cities […]

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Tokyo ramen shop bans customers from using their phones while eating | CNN

Tokyo ramen shop bans customers from using their phones while eating | CNN

Editor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get the latest news in aviation, food and drink, where to stay and other travel developments. Tokyo CNN  —  In Japan’s ramen restaurants, there’s an unspoken rule: eat quickly and leave. One noodle shop owner takes this custom so seriously that he began […]

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Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram has become the city’s seafood hub

Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram has become the city’s seafood hub

Late in the night Vizhinjam’s ‘restaurant row’ is a sea of activity as the salty breeze mingles with the mouth-watering aroma of fried seafood, peppered with merry conversations. The seafood restaurants on Vizhinjam Harbour Road are packed with customers from all walks of life, most of whom have travelled from the city and beyond to […]

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Delhi HC tells Centre to move single-judge Bench on service charge issue

Delhi HC tells Centre to move single-judge Bench on service charge issue

The Bench will now hear the matter on August 31 ‘Stay order was passed by the single-judge Bench without giving an opportunity to file replies’ ‘Stay order was passed by the single-judge Bench without giving an opportunity to file replies’ The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the Centre to approach a single-judge Bench for […]

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Why should service charge be recovered from consumers as additional levy, Delhi HC asks

Why should service charge be recovered from consumers as additional levy, Delhi HC asks

‘You increase the salary. We will hear you’: Delhi High Court on restaurant associations’ argument of service charge benefiting employees ‘You increase the salary. We will hear you’: Delhi High Court on restaurant associations’ argument of service charge benefiting employees The Delhi High Court on Tuesday questioned why restaurants should recover service charges from consumers […]

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Craving a fine dining experience? Please share your data first

Craving a fine dining experience? Please share your data first

Twenty-five-year-old Prathamesh Rakshe, a Pune-based DJ, was shocked when a popular restaurant chain asked him to complete a survey to get the next meal free. “I was asked to enter my name, address, phone number (with OTP verification) and my date of birth, after which the survey asked a few questions about my dining habits,” […]

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