Food & Travel

Whatever you call it (au gratin potatoes, potato gratin, that cheesy potato thing), this classic dish never disappoints.

Growing up, my references to Charleston, South Carolina, were high-level history lessons about the start of the Civil War and as Rhett Butler’s hometown in Gone with the Wind. As an adult, I mostly associated the city with bachelorette trips…

The 2025 Matador Network Travel Awards Photo: Dmitry Molchanov/Shutterstock Every year, the Matador Network team and our contributors fan out to small towns, big cities, and wild stretches of coast and mountains around the world. In 2025, we saw Africa’s…

Explore all of Matador Network’s 2025 award winners Many of the most famous wildlife destinations in Africa require a long transfer: a bush plane, a full day’s drive, a commitment to get far from any city. Nairobi National Park flips…

Explore all of Matador Network’s 2025 award winners Emirates is no stranger to best airline awards, and Matador readers stayed loyal to the carrier that turned long-distance flying into an experience people actually look forward to in 2025. Emirates took…

Explore all of Matador Network’s 2025 award winners Wellness travel is booming, though there’s no single definition of what wellness travel is. For some, it’s a detox retreat in the middle of a city. For others, it’s learning a new…

Explore all of Matador Network’s 2025 award winners When Matador readers think about where sustainability is more than a buzzword, Costa Rica comes up again and again. It’s the country that turned “pura vida” into both a marketing slogan and…

Explore all of Matador Network’s 2025 award winners Patagonia needs no introduction. Argentina’s side of the southernmost region of South America, east of the Andes Mountains, is remote in every sense, and draws people with its mountains, high-elevation steppes, glaciers,…

Explore all of Matador Network’s 2025 award winners For years, travelers chasing lesser-visited corners of Europe have gone east to the Balkans, the Baltics, and the Caucasus. But in 2025, one place in particular stands out in Matador readers’ imaginations:…

Explore all of Matador Network’s 2025 award winners At one end of North America, where desert mountains fall into two very different bodies of water, Baja California is like a wildlife corridor you can road-trip. Gray whales put on a…