Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.
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Places to Eat & Drink
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Seltzer Museum
Geneva, Switzerland
Café de Paris
The birthplace of a famous steak sauce still keeps its recipe a secret.
London, England
M. Manze
The oldest surviving “eel, pie, and mash” shop in London is renowned for its infamous jellied eels.
Kinomoto, Japan
Kinomoto Tsuruya Bakery
This bakery in Japan is one of the few places that still sells 'salad bread,' a short-lived staple in the post-World War II years.
Food & Drink
Drinks
Nectar Soda
This pretty pink drink is a Cincinnati specialty.
Drinks
Tiquira
This violet-hued liquor is Brazil's oldest spirit.
Prepared Foods
Maultaschen
Legend has it that a monk hid meat in these dumplings to fool God.
Drinks
Pont
A town in East France still makes a beloved green-anise liquor born after the ban of absinthe.