Paris: There's a little pastry shop near where I live called Gerard Mulot. People from all over the world go there. You don't have to spend $30 to sit down at a table in a chichi place on the boulevard Saint-Germain. Spend $3 and take your pastry to Luxembourg Gardens, just up the street. 76 rue de Seine, 011-33/1-43-26-85-77.

MARK BITTMAN
Host of the PBS series How to Cook Everything: Bittman Takes on America's Chefs and food columnist for the New York Times

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Paris Les Fontaines is a relatively inexpensive, kid-friendly place near Luxembourg Gardens. This isn't haute cuisine--it's consistently good and affordable food, in a neighborhood where everybody happens to find themselves anyway. 9 rue Soufflot, 011-33/1-43-26-42-80, beef fillet $24.

Rome At Da Franco, there's a menu, but no one ever uses it. 2 Via dei Falisci, 011-39/06-495-7675, dinner $20.

CATHY STRANGE
Cheese buyer for Whole Foods

Paris Laurent DuBois (2 rue de Lourmel, 011-33/1-45-78-70-58) and Quatrehomme (62 rue de Sèvres, 011-33/1-47-34-33-45).

London Neal's Yard Dairy. 6 Park St., Borough Market, 011-44/207-645-3554.

Bordeaux Fromagerie Jean D'Alos. 4 rue Montesquieu, 011-33/5-56-44-29-66.

Lyon: Fromagerie de Montbrison. 1 rue Grenette, Montbrison, 011-33/4-77-96-16-74.

Venice: Latteria Moro. 10 via Savonarola Girolamo, Oderzo, 011-39/042-271-7895.

GARRETT OLIVER
Brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, author of The Brewmaster's Table, a cookbook

Paris Il Était une Oie dans le Sud-Ouest--an unassuming café near the Arc du Triomphe--specializes in foie gras. There's a toaster on every table. You toast your own bread and order duck foie gras any way you like it. No pretension or frills--it's all about the foie. 8 rue Gustave Flaubert, 011-33/1-43-80-18-30, foie gras $30.

Italy In Brugnato, near La Spezia, the Taverna Dei Golosi (it means "The Glutton's Tavern") has magnificent Ligurian mountain cuisine. The Santamaria family will ply you with fresh vegetable terrines, and a dish I dream about--pork tenderloin in a Gorgonzola sauce (16 Via Borgo S. Bernardo, 011-39/018-789-5007, pork tenderloin $30). During warm months at Osteria Veglio in La Morra, you can sit outside on the balcony with the vineyards rolling out in front of you. The food is nothing short of spectacular. The raw milk panna cotta is so good that it may ruin you for any other--for life (9 Frazione Annunziata, 011-39/017-350-9341, panna cotta $7.75).

MARCUS SAMUELSSON
Chef at Aquavit in New York, author of Aquavit and the New Scandinavian Cuisine

Stockholm Sturehof is a great brasserie where, at some point of the day, everybody in town seems to stop by. I always order the seafood platter, which comes with all sorts of Swedish seafood, and shellfish, lobster, and oysters, great herring, very traditional. Stureplan 2, 011-46/8-440-57-30, seafood platter $60.

MARCELLA HAZAN
Author of six books on Italian food, including Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking and Marcella Cucina

Venice In Venice, cicchetti are a little like tapas, but different. You can have small little sandwiches with a glass of wine. It makes a nice light lunch. They're served at casual cafés called bacari. There are two bacari near the fish market. One is Bancogiro (122 Campo San Giacometto, 011-39/041-523-2061, sandwich $1.20) and the other is Do Mori (429 Calle dei Do Mori, 011-39/041-522-5401, $1.50). They have plates of things out so you can point and say what you want.