Food For Thought

Here’s some food for thought. How do you judge which city has the best food? Well one measure, which we have been tracking over the years, is the number of restaurants a city can support. And by this metric, Asian cities win.

The latest research we can find shows that Tokyo and Seoul dominate the next closest city, which is the City of Lights Paris. These figures are for sit in or take out restaurants in permanent, legal locations, so they don’t include food stalls, street eats, food trucks or other more mobile or non-permanent places.

Number of Restaurants

  1. Tokyo: 148,582
  2. Seoul: 83,239
  3. Paris: 44,896
  4. Bogota: 34,248
  5. Los Angeles: 29,560
  6. New York City: 26,697
  7. London: 18,110
  8. Hong Kong: 13,743
  9. Rome: 13,721
  10. Milan: 8,785
  11. Taipei: 8,253
  12. Toronto: 7,984

This list is designed top give you food for thought when you travel, as it lays out which cities are obsessed with food. Of course, it also shows cities where the culture is to eat out and ones where apartments and kitchens tend to be quite small or limited. Still you probably can’t go too far wrong at a restaurant in any of these top tier foodie cities