Gideon Hartwell

California knows how to make waiting feel suspiciously promising. You see a line curling outside a bakery, taqueria,…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 28

Some grocery stores are worth a quick stop. Others are worth clearing space in your trunk before you…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 27

Plan for one hour here, and watch that plan completely fall apart. Kentucky is home to a market…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 27

You know a table means business when the little snacks show up before anyone has even committed to…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 27

North Carolina barbecue does not need a costume change. It does not have to arrive stacked high or…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 27

Before most of Albuquerque has fully woken up, the sky is already getting ready to show off. In…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 26

Some dinners are built for passing plates before anyone reaches for the check. In New Haven, Connecticut, that…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 26

Picture a friend who can never pick between sushi, meat, and something warm enough to slow the table…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 25

Pull into a spot, flip on your headlights, and let dinner come to you. In Bellingham, Washington, that…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 24

What happens when a community decides growth is not worth the trade-off? Georgia hides a small beach town…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 23

Indiana has a drive-in that has been flipping burgers since the 1950s, and it is still going strong.…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 23

Two movies. One screen. An Arkansas sky that turns colors you did not plan on watching. The Kenda…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 22

Gulf Shores has plenty of seafood spots, but Alabama crab lovers keep crossing county lines for this one…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 21

Would a store really survive seven decades on nothing but trust and good cheese? In New Hampshire, apparently…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 21

Virginia is sitting on one of the largest lakes in the entire eastern United States, and most of…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 20

Nebraska keeps pulling this same trick where the middle of nothing turns out to be a place absolutely…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 19

What if the perfect base camp for one of Earth’s most extreme landscapes barely showed up on a…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 19

Massachusetts hides some truly incredible seafood. One lobster shack on Bearskin Neck keeps drawing people back season after…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 18

Dinner on a moving train sounds like a dream, and Kentucky delivers it in the most charming way…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 18

Just off the main highway, a gold rush mining town is standing right where it fell quiet. Buildings…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 17

One of the most jaw-dropping secrets in American architecture is parked right on the shore, and it looks…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 17

Philadelphia is one of eleven American cities hosting FIFA World Cup 2026 matches this summer. The city brings…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 16

Ninety-plus years of fudge, sundaes, and handmade chocolates? Wisconsin has one candy shop that has been doing it…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 16

There is a farm where visitors walk into the field, pick their own strawberries and raspberries, and pay…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 15

Most people retire to some place and then spend years wishing they had done the math first. North…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 15

Pennsylvania thrift shopping is a serious pursuit. The people who do it well already know which spots to…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 14

Bargain hunters in Ohio, this one absolutely deserves a permanent spot on your must-visit list. Deep in Amish…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 14

Virginia does not beg for attention when it comes to seafood. It just quietly keeps delivering, from Chesapeake…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 13

Ohio keeps this one quiet, and honestly, that is part of what makes it so good. A 120-acre…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 13

Right off Interstate 81, a Mennonite country market in Tennessee has built a devoted following that stretches across…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 13

A gravel road through the hills of eastern Kentucky leads to a converted cattle barn, and at the…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 12

An Italian restaurant has been quietly earning its reputation in Mississippi for close to four decades, and word…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 11

The trail drops into the forest and follows a creek, and within minutes the city disappears entirely. About…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 10

Saturday mornings in Colorado can go a lot of ways, and this one goes exceptionally well. A growers-only…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 10

Virginia has a baking tradition that runs deep, and the Amish and Mennonite communities across the state have…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 8

California’s coastline runs nearly 900 miles, and the seafood buffet scene along that stretch is genuinely something to…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 8

Real charcoal, real elk, and a drive-in that has been doing both since 1953. That is the whole…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 8

Georgia takes its barbecue seriously, and one spot along a two-lane highway south of Atlanta has been making…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 7

Ohio has a bin store secret, and the bargain hunters who found it are not exactly shouting about…

By Gideon Hartwell · Jun 6