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The meals are the itinerary

Travel planned around where to eat

A travel and food guide for people who plan the day around lunch: where to eat in each city, where to stay, what to do and how to cook it at home. City Tables plans a whole trip meal by meal.

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What you will find here

  • Where to eat, city by city

    A free guide for each city we cover, by neighbourhood and meal: the dishes, the prices and what to book.

    Eat & Drink
  • Where to stay near it

    Hotels, inns and rentals by neighbourhood: the room, the breakfast, and the tables a short walk away.

    Where to Stay
  • Cook it at home

    Recipes for the dishes a trip was planned around, written for an ordinary kitchen.

    Recipes

Dispatches

Every section in one stream, newest first: where to eat in a city one week, a carry-on case or a market-stall stew to cook at home the next.

All dispatches
  1. Book ahead
  2. Breakfast
  3. Lunch
  4. Dinner
  5. The last drink
  6. A bed nearby
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City Tables

City guides planned meal by meal

Downloadable guides that plan a city around its meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner and the last drink in each neighbourhood, what to book ahead, and where to stay near the best of it.

Each City Tables edition is one city, written by a food writer who lives there and has eaten at every place it names.

One price per city
£14, about €16
Refreshed
Once a year
The first edition
Lisbon
One Lisbon day
Free, for your email address

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Who writes here

Each city guide is signed by someone who lives in that city, and each recipe by the cook who wrote it.

Authors
  • Imogen Fairlie

    Editor and lead writer

    Fifteen years writing about cities and their food, first on a newspaper travel desk, then for magazines and weekend supplements.

  • Euan Corless

    Food writer and recipe developer

    Eight years in restaurant kitchens, then recipe testing for cookbooks; writes the recipes here for a home kitchen.

  • Inês Valadares

    City contributor, Lisbon

    Born in Lisbon; has written about its tascas, markets and bakeries for Portuguese papers and city guides for eleven years.