Amid increasingly fierce competition (looking at you, Lick), Lone Star State franchise Amy’s remains an institution on the strength, not just of long-established quality but also of Bat City–bred nuttiness. Over three decades, Amy Simmons’s team of trendsetters has developed hundreds of flavors, among them such headshaking oddities as the vodka- and brine-infused Pickle Shot and the Mexican vanilla-based Doña Read more...

Villa Cora is a 19th-century building surrounded by a park with outdoor swimming pool. Just 2 km from the centre of Florence and Santa Maria Novella Train Station, it offers free parking. Wi-Fi is also free.All the air-conditioned rooms at Villa Cora are decorated in classical style with antique furniture. They feature a minibar and a flat-screen TV with satellite Read more...

Boasting a free spa and wellness centre, and a sun terrace, Hotel Garnì Serena set in a quiet valley, surrounded by the Dolomite mountains, just 600 metres from Arabba. Wi-Fi is free throughout. Featuring a balcony, the rooms at the Garnì Serena come with Alpine-style décor, carpeted floors and a flat-screen TV. The private bathroom has free toiletries and a Read more...

Suncoast Community High School, a public college-preparatory high school, offers four magnet programs: Innovative Interactive Technology; Computer Science; International Baccalaureate (IB); and Math, Science, and Engineering. The school offers a host of AP and IB courses. 100 percent of its students enroll in AP courses, while 52 percent participate in IB courses. Suncoast Community High School allows students to pursue Read more...

Set inside the historic Grand Central Market in downtown LA, G&B Coffee offers classics like filtered coffee and espresso, but allows their creativity to show with options like “business and pleasure” — or half of a double espresso and half of an almond macadamia cappuccino with espresso dusted on top. Try it with a yeasted waffle and housemade jam or Read more...

In Oct. 2010, the hospital opened a new cardiovascular center, which is offering “7 tests for $70,” screenings for people at risk of heart disease. This 1,061-bed hospital, the flagship of three-hospital Beaumont Hospitals, operates highly regarded interventional cardiology and community clinical oncology programs. It is a leading center for treating liver disease, hepatitis, ulcers and related disorders and for Read more...

While Nashville’s food and drink scene has undeniably exploded, thanks in huge part to the Goldberg brothers (Catbird Seat, Pinewood Social), when in Music City, we can’t break away from The Patterson House, one of their first bars, which they opened in 2009. One of the reasons is the atmosphere and its very strict rules — don’t use your cell Read more...

Meta is a wonderful world of contrasts — a marble-barred, copper-penny-floored temple of swank drinking lodged next to a strip club. A spot whose duality includes jazz on Thursdays and Wu Tang Wednesdays, and where they once converted their allotment of precious Pappy into lowbrow Jell-O shots. But it’s not just bravado and balls that make Meta the best damn Read more...

The first Pittsburgh bar to score a James Beard nomination for Outstanding Bar Program, Butcher’s actually two bars in one, both tucked into Richard DeShantz’s charcuterie-heavy destination. The first is the main-floor bar, whose Whiskey Wall contains more than 600 different bottles of the brown stuff, making it a serious candidate for a spot among the nation’s best whiskey bars. Read more...

It just opened this past winter and it already feels a hundred years old. That’s because the room, with its floor-to-ceiling sweep of mahogany and its center-stage portrait of the presidential OG, was constructed in the 1920s as a hotel library. In more recent years, though, the Bruce Wayne–ish lair has housed nothing more debonair than a paper shredder. Now Read more...