A trendy café, a restaurant with a culinary concept that brings in crowds, unique stores where you’re sure to find local specialties, secret historical spots… knowing the world’s must-visit streets can optimise a traveller’s chances of true discovery.
In tourism, there seems to be a non-stop flow of various rankings. While these can be useful in helping visitors find the best destination for an upcoming getaway, they tend to be broad and don’t always specify the quintessential experiences travellers need to seek out.
Last year, “Time Out” launched a new type of listing designed to be more effective in this sense: it points not to a country or even a city, but to streets where the traveller will surely find delights.
The list was billed “the coolest streets”, but the concept goes well beyond “cool”. The methodology is efficient: more than 20,000 locals were questioned, from the United States to Australia and South Africa – a very wide geographical spectrum that corresponds with the events and addresses identified by the guide.
Then, based only on these choices, the magazine’s staff, in each of their own countries, selected the arteries that are really worth including on a travel itinerary.
The selection is, of course, renewed annually to match the current state of each destination’s urban fabric – restaurant openings or store closures make or break the life of a neighbourhood.
As a result, the corner of Nørrebro, in Copenhagen – which took in first place on the list in 2021 – has this year been replaced by Værnedamsvej (in fifth place), a district of the Danish capital known for its natural wine bars, cute little stores, and cheese counters.
In first place on this ranking, which includes 33 streets this time around compared with 49 last year, “Time Out” recommends Rue Wellington in Montreal for its concentration of restaurants and bars. You can order great cocktails and delicious sandwiches – the best in the city!
Here is this year’s complete list of streets to visit in the world:
- Rue Wellington, Montreal
- Gertrude Street, Melbourne
- Great Western Road, Glasgow
- Yongkang Street, Taipei
- Værnedamsvej, Copenhagen
- Karangahape Road, Auckland
- Tai Ping Shan Street, Hong Kong
- Yaowarat Road, Bangkok
- Oranienstrasse, Berlin
- Hayes Street, San Francisco
- Avenida Ámsterdam, Mexico City
- Kolokotroni, Athens
- Virgil Avenue, Los Angeles
- Ossington Avenue, Toronto
- Via Provenza, Medellín
- Calle Ocho, Miami
- Deptford High Street, London
- Praça das Flores, Lisbon
- Oxford Street, Accra
- Wentworth Avenue, Chicago
- Cutting Room Square, Manchester
- Capel Street, Dublin
- Jumeirah Beach Road, Dubai
- Enmore Road, Sydney
- Kagurazaka, Tokyo
- Kloof Street, Cape Town
- Süleyman Seba Caddesi, Istanbul
- Calle Echegaray, Madrid
- MacDougal Street, New York
- Carrer del Comte Borrell, Barcelona
- Newbury Street, Boston
- Colaba Causeway, Mumbai
- Everton Road, Singapore (the closest to Malaysia)