Europe Travel Guides: Food, Wine & the Trips Worth the Journey

Europe rewards travelers who come with a plan — and specifically, with a table reservation. I’ve lived in Milan, taken cooking classes across a dozen regions, sailed the Danube, eaten my way through Budapest before anyone was calling it a food city, and stood in Istanbul at the intersection of two continents wondering why more people don’t go. Europe is endlessly layered, and the best version of any trip here has food, wine, or a slow boat somewhere in the itinerary.

These guides lean into what I care about most: the cooking class that teaches you something you’ll actually use at home, the river cruise where the food is as good as the scenery, the wine region most travelers skip because they stopped at Tuscany. Italy gets its own section on this site — it deserves it. Everything else is here.