Travel+Leisure India

August 2026 |

It's August at Travel + Leisure India & South Asia — and this month, we come to the table hungry. Food has always been the most honest way to understand a place. It carries the memory of migration, the logic of landscape, and the quiet persistence of traditions that refuse to be forgotten. Our August issue is a celebration of that: a deep, wide-ranging exploration of what we eat, where it comes from, who makes it, and what it means to carry a food memory home. We bring our Future of Flavour report, where India's most influential food insiders—from chefs and mixologists, to farmers and foragers—map where the Indian table is headed. The findings are specific, surprising, and deeply telling of a culinary culture in confident, considered motion. Our cover story takes us high into the Himalayas, where The Westin Resort & Spa rises out of the mist at 4,500 feet above sea level, surrounded by dense green canopies and the particular silence that only altitude provides. Here, the most indulgent long weekend had nothing to do with doing more, and everything to do with wanting less. This issue travels from the empanada stalls and maté rituals of Buenos Aires to the sacred mahua forests of Madhya Pradesh and the coffee highlands of Koraput in Odisha. We trace the world's most compelling breakfast trails, follow five culinary creatives through the food traditions travel gave them, and spend time inside a Bohemian glassblowing studio with an unexpected Hollywood connection. We also discover why Gothenburg has quietly become Scandinavia's most interesting city—and why it has absolutely no interest in telling you so. Together, these stories reflect a growing conviction: that the most meaningful travel begins not with a landmark, but with a meal, and the curiosity to understand everything that went into making it.