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on the plane.
The best table
in the room.

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4 Issues published

2 Publications

∞ Miles to spend

Two publications.
One obsession.

Table 1A and Field Notes are two distinct voices on the same subject: the serious business of going somewhere, eating well, and drinking better than everyone else on the plane.

Publication No. 01

Weekly · Deep dive editorial

The full weekly issue. A destination deep dive built around the points play to get there, four places worth knowing about, one wine worth understanding, and the insider knowledge that separates the people who actually live in a city from the people passing through it.

Points & Miles Wine Restaurants Travel Like a Local

Publication No. 02

Dispatches · Short form

Shorter. Faster. The discoveries that can't wait for the weekly issue — a bar that just opened, a wine you should be drinking right now, a points sweet spot before the airlines close it, a table worth booking on your next trip through a city you thought you already knew.

Quick Finds Deals & Alerts New Openings On the Ground

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Latest Issue

No. 4 — Las Vegas, NV.
The city underneath the city.

Table 1A · No. 4

Las Vegas,
NV

36.1699° N · 115.1398° W · April 2026

The hostess at Sparrow + Wolf doesn't look up when you walk in. It's a Tuesday and every table is full — not with conventioneers, not with bachelorette parties, but with people who drove here from Henderson specifically for Brian Howard's lamb belly. You are forty minutes from the Bellagio fountain show and roughly nine thousand miles from what you thought Las Vegas was.

Read Table 1A No. 4 Points Play · The Table · The Pour

Field Notes · No. 4

Forty miles of neon in the middle of the Mojave

The Strip is not where the city lives. The Strip is what the city performs. The actual Las Vegas — the one with HOA disputes and Little League games and a Thai restaurant that has been quietly excellent for thirty years — begins roughly a mile off Las Vegas Boulevard in any direction.

Read Field Notes No. 4 Neighborhoods · Four Days · Essentials

All Issues

Every destination we've covered.

Table 1A · No. 1

San Sebastián

Basque Country, Spain

32 Michelin stars. One city. Here's how to get there on 34,000 Avios — and why the pintxos bars in Gros are better than anything in the Parte Vieja at 6pm.

Pintxos Txakoli Avios

Table 1A · No. 2

Natural wine, petiscos, fado — and 44,000 United miles to lie flat over the Atlantic. Nobody eats before 8:30pm and the tascas run until 2am on a Tuesday.

Natural Wine Petiscos TAP

Field Notes · No. 14

Where the Atlantic light bends gold. Alfama, Mouraria, the miradouro ritual, and four days that end with a Last Word in Chiado at dusk.

Dispatch Itinerary

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Table 1A · No. 3

Lyon

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

The city that invented what we now call a restaurant, where a three-course lunch with a pichet of Beaujolais costs €18. The bouchons are waiting.

Bouchons Beaujolais

Coming soon

Table 1A · No. 4

Spring Mountain Road, the Waldorf on 30k Hilton points, Valley of Fire at sunset, and the sushi counter that would embarrass most Strip omakase rooms at a tenth of the price.

Strip Malls Desert Hilton

About

Specific enough
to act on.
Always.

Table 1A exists because most travel and food writing is either too precious or too generic — all vibes, no substance. Beautiful photography of places no recommendation can get you into. Wine notes that describe every wine the same way. Points advice written by people who've never actually flown on the redemptions they recommend.

This is different. Every issue contains specific things: real point amounts, real restaurant names, real producers and importers and price ranges. You should be able to read any issue and use it the same day.

01

Specific over everything

If it could describe any city, any wine, or any flight, it doesn't make it in. Every recommendation is real and actionable.

02

No advertising. No gatekeeping.

The $4 counter and the three-Michelin-star table get equal consideration. The only question is whether something is worth your time and money.

03

The best compliment

Not "great writing." The best compliment Table 1A can receive is "I went there because of you." That's the bar every issue is written to.