Side Dish, the Y2K Edition

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• Skip NYC, Food & Wine just crowned 8 next-gen food cities and you’ll want to book a table in all of them.

• Hot take: not every greasy spoon needs to meet your Michelin expectations. Sometimes, it’s about heart.

• Dolly Parton's Dirt Road Martini has us shook. It’s a Dirty Martini, but with...unsweetened tea and giardiniera brine. Gulp.

• Cereal’s not dead, but Gen Z is treating it more like a snack than the most important meal.

• The New Yorker says lunch is the most important meal. Time to rethink your sad desk salad.

• Recession Aperol Spritz? The Spaghett is the budget-friendly beer cocktail everyone’s sipping this summer.

• Chefs are f-eel-ing the love for this snakelike fish.

• When the Trenta just doesn't hit, now you can get a coffee...bucket.

• Duchêne is like your chic yet aloof French cousin: 'spiky, refined, offhanded, exuding effortlessness through extraordinary effort.'

• “It’s a cocktail party. It’s a dinner. It’s foreplay." Mmmmkay. Girl dinner, or apéro dinatoire if you're fancy.

• Orgeat is coming out of its shell as the sleeper ingredient for more than Tiki drinks.

• Crystal Light is having a main character moment, this time w/ a boozy twist.

• IHOP is hopping on the Dubai chocolate trend with $100 pancakes. Edible gold and gold sprinkles are involved, natch.

• HypeBae gives us the scoop on London's coolest restaurants for fashionable foodies. Check, please!

• Coors Light made a deodorant. Dura Chill has cold-activated tech, so your pits can crack open a cold one too.

• You came for the energy, you left with a different kind of buzz. High Noon accidentally sold vodka seltzers as Celsius.

• Vogue says the Baked Alaska is on fire! Again.

• A Cairo sunrise, a JFK nightcap. Slate on the chaotic charm of the 1-day international getaway.

• Hotel room service is getting Uber-ized. Wyndham teams up with Grubhub for on-demand everything.

• From Stoney Clover totes to Burberry-striped loungers, these hotel collabs are summer’s stealth style move.

• Popcorn sand? It’s not food, it’s fossilized algae and it’s older than it looks.

• Sardinia to Laos, these 27 underrated spots are quietly becoming travel’s next big thing.

• Solar eclipses, Greek revivals and desert design—these 16 hotels are 2025’s most unforgettable stays.

• Solo traveler? Brace yourself, Delta, United and American may be up charging you.

• A new DFW program lets fliers skip TSA and customs for connecting flights.

• Burnt out? All-inclusives are back, minus the buffets, plus beekeeping, yoga and