
New Vegetarian Capital: Berlin —
"Berlin is the first major Western city where vegetarianism has achieved complete culinary parity with the traditional carnivore's diet," says New York-based Saveur magazine, which has published its Good Taste Awards for 2015.

Food Trend Everyone Loves: Middle Eastern —
Star chefs are so yesterday. Today, people are yearning for Middle Eastern flavors, dishes and cooking techniques, such as this dish from Michael Solomonov's Zahav restaurant in Philadelphia.

Best Culinary Road Trip: Ireland's Coast —
It may appear cold and rugged, but trust Saveur, Ireland's 1,600-mile Wild Atlantic Way offers the best road trip entwined with great foods.

Next Great Food City: Santiago, Chile —
The capital city of Chile is brimming with delicious food options. Borago (pictured) -- the highest ranking Santiago restaurant in this year's World's 50 Best Restaurants awards -- is "unquestionably Santiago's restaurant of the moment."

Good Taste in a Most Unusual Form: Stinky foods of Shaoxing, China —
The experts of Saveur "decided to give an award to something that isn't what people immediately think of when they think of good taste." They're correct that the stinky food of Shaoxing isn't easy to like at first.

World's Best Food City: Tokyo —
It's a popular misunderstanding that Tokyo serves only expensive sushi. Japan's capital city is the world's greatest food city because of the consistency of its high quality food -- regardless of price and type of cuisine.

Hospitality Obsessives: Eleven Madison Park —
As a three-Michelin-star fine-dining restaurant with a whopping $225-per-person menu, New York's Eleven Madison Park could be intimidating. But the magazine hails the two men behind the property, Will Guidara and Daniel Humm, for making it warm and hospitable.

Modernized Classic: Florence, Italy —
Modern isn't the first adjective that comes to mind when thinking of Florence. But a crop of openings -- new restaurants, food courts, a cooking school -- has transformed the city into an exciting food destination.

Wine Radical: Charles Smith —
Charles Smith, a former rock band manager, and his "vineyard" defy the stereotypes of wine-making. Charles Smith Wine is located in a former Dr. Pepper bottling plant -- redesigned with glass, concrete and steel aplenty.

The Next Big Little Thing: Aga Restaurant —
A restaurant in Italy's Dolomites has been voted "The Next Big Little Thing" by Saveur. "You would be forgiven for being unable to find the little, unassuming Italian village of San Vito di Cadore on a map, but AGA (Via Trieste 6), a new restaurant from husband-and-wife team Oliver Piras and Alessandra Del Favero, is about to change that," says the magazine.

The Bread Revolutionaries: Tartine Bakery and the Bread Lab —
There's more science behind a slice of good bread than you might expect. San Francisco's Tartine Bakery's partnership with Washington State University's The Bread Lab to experiment with new varieties of wheat earned them a "bread revolutionaries" award.


