Are Still Here is a travel publication that documents places with lasting presence.
It brings together city guides, essays, and local perspectives that focus on the cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, and cultural institutions that continue to shape the places they belong to. Some have existed for generations, others are newer, but each has become part of the character of its neighbourhood through consistency rather than novelty.
The publication began from a simple observation: the places worth returning to are rarely the ones demanding attention. They are often quiet, deeply local, and built through years of care. Their value is measured less by popularity than by the role they continue to play in everyday life.
Grand Hotel Villa Politi, captured by Emanuel Sax
Each guide is developed through time spent in a destination alongside contributions from architects, designers, chefs, artists, writers, historians, and other local voices. Rather than offering a definitive list, these perspectives form a broader picture of a city and the people who know it best.
Alongside the guides are essays and stories exploring the people, buildings, traditions, and businesses that have remained. Together they form an ongoing record of places that continue to matter.
The name reflects a simple idea.
In cities where restaurants close, neighbourhoods change, and recommendations are increasingly shaped by algorithms, some places remain. They are still here.
Those are the places this publication exists to document.