If you want to eat well when dining out, ask a chef. Somewhat logically, it's a word of advice a chef once gave me. Speaking to chefs, it seems we already do ask them. And often, they say.

Such is our appetite, publisher Phaidon recently released its third edition of Where Chefs Eat, a guide polling 650 chefs across 70 countries on their favourite dining destinations. Altogether it includes some 4500 places "from humble holes-in-the-wall to the most luxurious restaurants".