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Condé Nast Traveler surveys a city with 3,000 Japanese restaurants, where Amazonian river fish meets saikyo yaki at Aizomê and a $268 omakase at Kanoê holds the classical line.

Reporting on where to stay, where to eat and who built it, from the week's openings and the people behind them.

The red carpet is on the Lido. The better question is where everyone disappears afterwards.

Condé Nast Traveler surveys a city with 3,000 Japanese restaurants, where Amazonian river fish meets saikyo yaki at Aizomê and a $268 omakase at Kanoê holds the classical line.

Suitcase sends Stockholm photographer Petter Bäcklund back to the Baltic islands of Gotland and Fårö, where September light, farm shops and a 19-room former limestone refinery shape a short, slow season.

When August ends, Puglia doesn’t close for the season. The Adriatic is still warm, the masserie settle back into their rhythm and the towns of the Valle d’Itria become places to wander rather than navigate around crowds. September may be the better version of an Italian summer.

A Ritz-Carlton on the Caspian at Zagulba, a second residential tower in Baku and a 152-room Le Meridien in Tbilisi's Chugureti district add up to 752 rooms and residences, with no dates attached.

The 240-key Red Sea Edition, with interiors by Rockwell Group inside a Foster + Partners masterplan, is the first hotel to open on the dolphin-shaped island at the centre of the Red Sea development.

Five hotels for doing US Open week properly — from the Upper East Side institution to Manhattan’s newest arrival.

Notting Hill Carnival anchors the 28-31 August 2026 weekend in London, with Sunday's Family Day, a one-night orchestral performance beneath Luke Jerram's seven-metre earth, and the last days of Tracey Emin at Tate Britain.




New destinations, hotel openings and what our editors thought of them. Written for people who travel slowly.