The 5 Best Places to Visit in October

These five cities' exciting new hotel openings and food scenes have our editors packing their bags.

October 5, 2015

Positano
Because Le Sirenuse’s new bar is a breezy terrace nearly 20 stories above the Bay of Salerno. Carved out of the hotel’s former rooftop car park (can your garage deliver views like this?), Franco’s Bar is what we dream of when we dream of the Amalfi Coast: all pearl-white tile and marine blue accents, plus an ocher fountain by Roman sculptor Giuseppe Ducrot.
Los Angeles
Because L.A. is now a gourmet falafel go-to. Locals line up out the door at Madcapra, in Downtown’s Grand Central Market.

At Dune, in on-the-rise Atwater Village. Both swap freshly grilled flatbread for pita, and Madcapra’s crouton-like morsels contrast with Dune’s bigger bites.
Saigon
Because the city has just welcomed its tallest, most glittering hotel, the Reverie Saigon, which today soars above Dong Khoi Street in the new 39-story Times Square building.

Beirut
Because just outside town, the ’60s-era landmark La Crêperie, where ambassadors once dined alongside global celebrities, has reopened after a major three-year overhaul.
Paris
Because the carb-centric French capital has finally gotten hip to giving up gluten. In the tenth arrondissement, gluten-intolerant pastry chef Marie Tagliaferro turns out top-shelf tartes au citron, cream puffs, and more—all made with quinoa, corn, or rice flour—at her pioneering gluten-free bakery cum café, Helmut Newcake.

More recently, Chambelland, a bakery/café in the eleventh arrondissement, started serving long, skinny sans-gluten white, multi-grain, and sourdough loaves.
While just to the south, Parisians are flocking to the second arrondissement to pick up entire meals’ worth of to-go GF soups, vegetable quiches, salads, and sandwiches at the new boutique-atelier from Noglu, whose original sit-down restaurant is a few doors away.

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