I follow hotel workers home to find best places to eat, says Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker follows hotel workers home to find the best places to eat when she is on holiday.

The Sex and the City star, 59, said restaurants that are popular with locals offer the most authentic cuisine – not the “fancy” food served up in tourist hotspots.

“If you’re on holiday, trying to find restaurants… I do endless months of research where, where, where, where, where,” she told the Ruthie’s Table podcast.

“And you get to your destination and you’ll try to ask people and they’ll send you to the place everyone else in the hotel is going.

“And I’ll be ‘No, no where do you eat Mr Concierge? Where do you eat?’ And they won’t tell me because they think we want this stacked food, fancy.”

“I’ll just follow the employees home,” she continued. “I literally follow them home and I see where they live and their communities and their restaurants.

“And that’s where I go and that’s where I shop. It completes the experience. When you get to eat local you’re having their experience.”