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
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.
Madrid
Comunidad de Madrid · SpainMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain, set high on the central Iberian Peninsula on the River Manzanares.
Seoul
Seoul · South KoreaSeoul rises around the palace of Gyeongbokgung beneath Namsan Seoul Tower, the old royal capital and heart of South Korea.
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.
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur · MalaysiaKuala Lumpur is Malaysia's capital in the Klang Valley, a skyline of glass towers led by the Petronas Towers.
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.
Lyon
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes · FranceThe Rhône and the Saône meet at Lyon, a city northwest of the French Alps in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, known for its Roman theatres at Lugdunum.
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.
Palermo
Sicilia · ItalyPalermo is the capital of Sicily, an Italian port city on the Tyrrhenian coast known for its Arab-Norman palaces and churches.
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.
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.
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.32 more Food & Gastronomy destinations, by country
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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.