Before you leave
If you eat kosher: look up restaurants, supermarkets with a kosher aisle, and the Chabad House at your destination (usually the best first contact in any city in the world: they welcome travellers, host Shabbat dinners and know the local map). On long flights, kosher meals (code KSML) are requested when booking or up to 48 hours before.
If your plan is more cultural: look for the Jewish museum, the historic synagogue and the bakery with the babka. It is a beautiful way to get to know a place.
Shabbat on the road
Candle-lighting times change from city to city — a lot. It is worth checking the local time and, if you are going to a synagogue you don’t know, writing ahead: almost all of them welcome visitors gladly and many will seat you at a Shabbat table.
For the more observant: a hotel near the synagogue, a physical key instead of a magnetic card, and food bought on Friday solve 90% of Shabbat away from home.
And as KosherWorld grows
The guide already covers dozens of cities with the same logic everywhere — local guide, kashrut levels and community — so that landing in a new one means opening the app and nothing more. You switch cities from the picker at the top, and if you know places that should be there, suggest them: that is how the Buenos Aires guide started too.
Landing kit
Food by level, Chabad, candle times, and the first things you need after getting off the plane.
Landing kitEditorial approach
This guide summarizes practices that can vary across communities, families, and movements. We compare institutional references from different traditions and avoid presenting one custom as universal.