Dua Lipa Just Shared 12 Personal Google Maps Lists

On May 28, Google Maps partnered with Service95 (Dua Lipa’s editorial platform) to release 12 personal lists of her favorite places around the world. In total: 130+ locations across restaurants, bars, bookstores, record shops, clubs, and more. Each spot includes photos from her travels and a note about why she goes there.

This is the first time Google Maps has launched curated travel lists from a celebrity at this scale. Not “top 10 from the editors”—these are the actual places she visits.

I’ve gone through all 12, and here’s what’s there plus how to use them for your own trips.

What is Service95, anyway?

Service95 started as Dua’s newsletter—recommendations on books, music, restaurants, and activism. Over the years it’s grown into a full-blown lifestyle platform. The Google Maps partnership is the most practical thing they’ve done: instead of reading “my favorite Paris restaurant” in an article, now it’s a saved pin on the map you can open directly in Maps.

Google also created a custom Pegman (that’s the little figure you drag in Street View) for this—now an animated Dua walks around London, LA, New York, Prishtina, Tokyo, and Mexico City.

The 12 Lists: City Guides & Themes

The lists are split into two groups: 6 by city (her favorite spots in each) and 6 by theme (cross-city collections).

City Guides

• London Eats on Repeat — London restaurants she keeps going back to. Since she grew up there, this reads like a local’s guide, not a tourist one.
• Los Angeles Hot Spots — LA, where she spends a lot of time between tours.
• The Essential NYC — New York: eat, drink, hang out. The basics done well.
• The Perfect Prishtina — Prishtina, Kosovo’s capital. Her roots are Albanian, so this is the most personal list. If you’re planning a trip there, this is honestly one of the best English-language guides available.
• Tokyo Culture & Eats — Tokyo: cultural spots mixed with places she’s eaten.
• Must-See Mexico City — Mexico City. She visits often and genuinely loves the city.

Thematic Collections

• Chill Dinners & Snacks — Relaxed meals and snacks across different cities.
• Date Nights to Remember — Romantic places for date nights (accessible through the Maps app—there’s a link in the official Google announcement).
• Natural Wine Bars — Natural wine bars around the world.
• Favourite Bookstores — Independent bookstores (the “Paris bookstores” people mentioned online are from here).
• Global Record Stores — Record shops. The famous “record store in Turkey” everyone talked about is on this list.
• The Best Nights Out — Clubs and bars for late nights.

The full official announcement with descriptions of each list is on Google’s blog.

How Many Cities Are Covered?

The thematic lists reach 47 cities (per Dua’s Instagram announcement). The six city lists focus on London, LA, NYC, Prishtina, Tokyo, and Mexico City. But the themed collections also include Paris, Barcelona, Istanbul, Rome, Berlin, and more.

If you’ve been following travel guides here, Barcelona shows up in the wine bars, Paris appears in the bookstores and date-night spots, and London has its own dedicated list.

How to Actually Use Them

Google Maps has a “Lists” feature—essentially, saved collections of places. It used to be pretty dormant; now it makes sense.

Here’s the workflow:

1. Click the link to any list—on your phone, it opens directly in the Maps app.
2. Tap Follow to save the list to your Saved → Lists.
3. When you travel to that city, the spots from the list appear right on the map.
4. Each location includes Dua’s photo and why she goes there.

The big win versus reading a “top 10 restaurants” article: you see the places on the map relative to where you are. If you’re in Soho, Maps shows which restaurants from her list are nearby. No copying addresses—they’re already there.

What This Means for Travel Planning

The trend is obvious: travelers are over generic “best of” lists from publications. People want recommendations from someone with taste they understand. Blogs used to fill that role. Then Instagram. Now it’s curated lists built right into the map.

Dua’s the first at this scale, but definitely won’t be the last. Google’s clearly building a template—next will be chefs, sommeliers, DJs, photographers. It’s a meaningful shift: your next travel guide isn’t an article, it’s basically a collection of people whose recommendations you trust.

Real Talk: Which Lists Are Best

I’ve browsed through most of them, and Prishtina and Tokyo stand out. Prishtina because there honestly aren’t many quality English guides out there—her list gives you 15+ solid spots right away. Tokyo because a lot of the spots clearly aren’t touristy—they’re local finds, which is gold in a city like Tokyo.

London Eats and NYC Essential are solid but not groundbreaking—many of the same restaurants appear in standard travel guides already. That said, if you’re visiting either city for the first time, they’re a great starting point.

Natural Wine Bars is my personal favorite from the thematic collections. Natural wine places are genuinely hard to find through regular search; this list actually solves that problem.

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Sources:

• Travel the world like Dua Lipa with Google Maps — Official Google Blog
• Dua Lipa Partners With Google Maps — HOLR Magazine
• All Lists in One Place — goo.gle/m/googlemaps-bio