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Summer may be folding its bright parasol and heading for the door, but in Austin that simply means the city’s appetite gets a little more interesting. The heat loosens its grip, patios become…

San Jose, in late summer’s afterglow, is a city that rarely sits still long enough to be fully appreciated. It is an old orchard town turned tech metropolis; a place of mission bells and…

Summer is over, but Dallas has merely changed costume. The heat loosens its grip; patios become habitable again; the city’s appetite—always ambitious, always a little theatrical—returns to public…

Summer may have folded its beach towel, but San Diego still wears the afterglow—sun-burnished, salt-kissed, and gloriously unhurried. This is a city that has always understood pleasure as a civic…

Summer may be over, but San Antonio still feels gloriously unbuttoned—sunburnt in the right places, scented with chile smoke and grilled fat, alive with music drifting from patios and the long…

Phoenix has a singular talent for making reinvention feel like a civic pastime. The city is sunny without apology, sprawling in its ambitions, diverse in its dining rooms, modern in its appetite…

Summer may be gone, but Philadelphia’s appetite has not dimmed one incandescent bit. If anything, the city becomes more itself in the shoulder seasons: less parade, more pulse; less postcard, more…

Summer may be over, but Houston is still in its most deliciously expansive mood: humid air, glittering boulevards, strip-mall revelations, and dining rooms where the city’s many selves—Mexican,…

Chicago, in the afterglow of summer, has a peculiar and irresistible way of turning every meal into an argument for staying out just a little longer. The lakefront breeze grows sharper, the…

Los Angeles is at its most seductive in the hinge between seasons, when the heat loosens its grip and the city resumes its favorite habit of performing itself in public. Autumn may be arriving on…