Cover story · Issue №.01
Paris.
Paris is the city most foreigners eat in wrong. The tourist version (long lunch at a brasserie with a menu in five languages) exists for a reason: people pay for it.…
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In this issue
43 cities, food-first
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Paris.
01Paris
FranceParis is the city most foreigners eat in wrong.
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Rome.
02Rome
ItalyRome's food is unfussy.
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Tokyo.
03Tokyo
JapanTokyo eats like nowhere else.
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Bangkok.
04Bangkok
ThailandBangkok is one of the great food cities full stop, and the reason is the same reason the traffic is bad: nobody cooks at home.
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Barcelona.
05Barcelona
SpainBarcelona is two cities that eat differently.
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Istanbul.
06Istanbul
TurkeyIstanbul's food is the inheritance of an imperial cuisine that fed a capital where Asia, Europe, and the Middle East met.
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Lisbon.
07Lisbon
PortugalLisbon's food is the cuisine of a maritime empire that ran out of money and never globalized its recipes.
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Mexico City.
08Mexico City
MexicoMexico City is one of the most underrated food cities in the world for the simple reason that most outsiders don't realize how varied and how serious the cuisine is.
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New York.
09New York
United StatesNew York's food is fragmented the way the city is fragmented.
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Florence.
10Florence
ItalyFlorence is the food capital of Tuscany, which is to say it is a regional capital that also happened to be the cradle of the Renaissance.
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London.
11London
United KingdomLondon was, for a long time, the joke European capital for food.
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Marrakech.
12Marrakech
MoroccoMarrakech is the food city of a country that doesn't have a restaurant tradition in the Western sense.
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Naples.
13Naples
ItalyNaples invented pizza.
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Bologna.
14Bologna
ItalyBologna is the food capital of Emilia-Romagna, the Italian region that gave the world parmigiano-reggiano, prosciutto di Parma, balsamic vinegar from Modena, and the world's best fresh pasta.
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Hanoi.
15Hanoi
VietnamHanoi eats on the pavement.
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Kyoto.
16Kyoto
JapanKyoto is where Japan's old food culture survives in working form.
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Madrid.
17Madrid
SpainMadrid eats later than any other capital in Europe and tapas its way through the early evening before sitting down to dinner at 22:00.
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New Orleans.
18New Orleans
United StatesNew Orleans is the only American city where the local cuisine is its own distinct tradition, not a regional variant of something else.
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Seoul.
19Seoul
South KoreaSeoul eats communally and at volume.
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Singapore.
20Singapore
SingaporeSingapore organised its street food into hawker centres in the 1970s for hygiene reasons, and in doing so preserved it.
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Athens.
21Athens
GreeceAthens spent decades being treated as the place you leave to reach the islands, and its food scene improved a great deal while nobody was paying attention.
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Buenos Aires.
22Buenos Aires
ArgentinaBuenos Aires is a European city that eats Italian food under a Spanish name and calls it Argentine.
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Cape Town.
23Cape Town
South AfricaCape Town's cooking comes out of a specific and uncomfortable history.
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Osaka.
24Osaka
JapanOsaka eats louder than Tokyo.
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Venice.
25Venice
ItalyVenice has a reputation for bad, overpriced food that it earned honestly along the main tourist routes and does not deserve elsewhere.
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Dublin.
26Dublin
IrelandDublin's food reputation lagged behind its reality for a long time.
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Edinburgh.
27Edinburgh
United KingdomEdinburgh's food improved sharply in the last twenty years and the reason is raw material.
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Lima.
28Lima
PeruLima has a claim to being the best food city in South America, and it rests on geography and immigration rather than on tradition alone.
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Melbourne.
29Melbourne
AustraliaMelbourne is the Australian city that takes coffee and small restaurants most seriously, and it built both on Greek and Italian migration after the Second World War.
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Mumbai.
30Mumbai
IndiaMumbai eats faster than anywhere else in India because the city runs on commuting.
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Sydney.
31Sydney
AustraliaSydney's cooking is built on proximity to Asia and on produce that arrives in very good condition.
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Chiang Mai.
32Chiang Mai
ThailandChiang Mai cooks northern Thai food, which is a different tradition from the coconut-heavy curries most visitors associate with Thailand.
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Ho Chi Minh City.
33Ho Chi Minh City
VietnamSaigon eats sweeter, richer, and later than Hanoi, and it is far more willing to absorb something new.
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Lyon.
34Lyon
FranceLyon has called itself the gastronomic capital of France for a century and the claim rests on two things.
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San Sebastian.
35San Sebastian
SpainSan Sebastián is a small Basque city on the Atlantic coast that punches multiple weight classes above its size.
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Seville.
36Seville
SpainSeville invented the tapa or at least made the strongest claim to it, and the city still eats standing at a bar more readily than sitting at a table.
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Kuala Lumpur.
37Kuala Lumpur
MalaysiaKuala Lumpur is three cuisines sharing a city without merging: Malay, Chinese, and Tamil, each with its own restaurants, its own hours, and its own rules about what goes with what.
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Porto.
38Porto
PortugalPorto is the rougher, older sibling of Lisbon.
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Cartagena.
39Cartagena
ColombiaCartagena is a walled Caribbean port and eats like one.
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Fez.
40Fez
MoroccoFez has the oldest continuously inhabited medina in the world and cooks the most conservative Moroccan food in the country.
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Rio de Janeiro.
41Rio de Janeiro
BrazilRio eats casually and outdoors.
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Ubud.
42Ubud
IndonesiaUbud sits inland in the rice terraces, and its food is Balinese rather than the generic Indonesian served on the beach strips.
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Tbilisi.
43Tbilisi
GeorgiaGeorgian food is having a moment internationally and Tbilisi is where to understand why.
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