Chiang Mai has been growing exceptional coffee in its surrounding highlands for decades. What's happening in the city itself is newer: a specialty coffee scene that's stopped exporting its best ideas and started keeping them.

Chiang Mai is a northern Thailand food city with a khao soi that justifies the detour north and a coffee scene that competes with the best in Southeast Asia. Skip the beach for a few days. It's worth it.

Huatulco is a beach town on the southern Oaxacan coast where almost everyone around you is Mexican and the mole is better than it has any right to be. A small, trusted collection of where to eat in La Crucecita.