Brno Makes the List

Every January, the New York Times Travel section publishes the top 52 places to visit in a year.  Here are the Top 10 destinations for 2016.

1. Mexico City, Mexico
2. Bordeaux, France
3. Malta
4. Coral Bay, St. John
5. Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, USA
6. Mozambique
7. Toronto, Canada
8. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
9. Shane, Sweden
10. Viñales, Cuba

This year Brno made the list.  It came in at #27!!  Here's the write up by Evan Rail.

   27.  Brno, Czech Republic

Known mostly for its minimalist architecture, the Czech Republic's second city is finally starting to earn praise for its food and drink, with last year's new bars "Super Panda Circus" and "Lucky Bastard Beerhouse" joining the revered three-year old "Bar, Který Neexistuje" (The Bar Which Doesn't Exist).  Stylish new restaurants like "Simplé", "Pavillon", "Il Mercato" and "Koishi" offer pitch-perfect takes on French, American, Japanese and regional Italian cooking, among others, while third-wave coffeehouses "Coffee Fusion" and "Cafe Mitte" make it easy for overnight guests from nearby Prague and Vienna to shake off the excess of the previous evening on their way to the remarkable "Villa Tugendhat".