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Overhead bistro table mid-meal with a plated gourmet dish, tasting plates, red wine and a candle.

Experience

Food & Gastronomy

Food travel works when a place has a cuisine of its own, not just good restaurants — a market culture, regional dishes, and a street-food layer that tells you where you are before the menu does. The trip is planned around meals instead of fitting them between sights.

Where to stay →

Best places to stay for food & gastronomy

Ranked by global recognition — how widely each place is read about across Wikipedia's language editions. Never paid placement, prices, or reviews.

Paris skyline with the Eiffel Tower and Montparnasse Tower rising over Haussmannian rooftops under a bright sky.

Paris

Île-de-France · FranceThe Seine splits Paris in two, capital of France in the Île-de-France, known for the Louvre Museum, the Panthéon and the Sacré-Cœur above the city.Where to stay →Madrid skyline across the Manzanares river with the Torre de Madrid, Edificio Espana and the domes of the Almudena Cathedral.

Madrid

Comunidad de Madrid · SpainMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain, set high on the central Iberian Peninsula on the River Manzanares.Where to stay →Seoul's Yeouido skyline along the Han River, anchored by the golden 63 Building tower under a blue sky.

Seoul

Seoul · South KoreaSeoul rises around the palace of Gyeongbokgung beneath Namsan Seoul Tower, the old royal capital and heart of South Korea.Where to stay →Sao Paulo's dense sea of highrise apartment towers stretching to the horizon above red-tiled rooftops.

São Paulo

São Paulo · BrazilFrom Pátio do Colégio, São Paulo spreads out as Brazil's largest city and the capital of the state of São Paulo, founded in 1554.Where to stay →Kuala Lumpur skyline with the Petronas Twin Towers and KL Tower rising above green trees under a blue sky.

Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur · MalaysiaKuala Lumpur is Malaysia's capital in the Klang Valley, a skyline of glass towers led by the Petronas Towers.Where to stay →Chongqing riverside skyline of modern skyscrapers beside a white cable-stayed bridge pylon over the water

Chongqing

Chongqing Shi · ChinaChongqing rises on cliffs above the river at the head of the Three Gorges, a hill-built municipality in China known for the Eighteen Stairs.Where to stay →Aerial view over Osaka's dense downtown skyline of high-rise towers and elevated roads under a bright blue sky

Osaka

Ōsaka-fu · JapanOsaka is the commercial heart of the Kansai region on Honshu, capital of Osaka Prefecture and a designated city known for its food and museums.Where to stay →Rooftop view from Palermo Cathedral showing its Gothic spires above the city with mountains beyond under a blue sky

Palermo

Sicilia · ItalyPalermo is the capital of Sicily, an Italian port city on the Tyrrhenian coast known for its Arab-Norman palaces and churches.Where to stay →Aerial over Malmo's harbour district with the Turning Torso tower rising in the distance

Malmö

Skåne County · SwedenMalmö is the largest city in Skåne and the third-largest in Sweden, a port on the Öresund strait facing Copenhagen across the water.Where to stay →Turku Cathedral's green-spired tower above autumn trees along the Aura River in Turku, Finland

Turku

Varsinais-Suomi · FinlandTurku is Finland's oldest city, a former capital on the Aurajoki in south-western Finland, set around its medieval cathedral and castle.Where to stay →View from Patuxai monument down a palm-lined avenue over Vientiane's traffic and low-rise skyline

Vientiane

Vientiane Prefecture · LaosThe Mekong runs past Vientiane, the capital of Laos, a riverside city of Buddhist temples founded in 1560 and crowned by the gilded Pha That Luang.Where to stay →Aerial Taipei skyline over Songshan District with Taipei 101 and the Songshan Airport runway

Songshan District

Taipei · Taiwan · TaiwanSongshan District anchors east-central Taipei around its namesake airport, the Raohe Street Night Market, and the Taipei Arena.Where to stay →
4 more Food & Gastronomy destinations, by country

Finland (1)

RaisioVarsinais-Suomi · Finland

China (1)

Luohu DistrictShenzhen · Guangdong · China

United States (1)

Adams MorganWashington · District of Columbia · United States

India (1)

Old DelhiDelhi · National Capital Territory of Delhi · India

Common questions

How do I judge a destination for food?

Look past the fine-dining count to the everyday layer: a working market, a street-food tradition, and dishes you can only eat well here. Depth and distinctiveness beat a long list of imported cuisines.