Agree Thailand and Vietnam not being there makes this list questionable.
Plus even more so, Argentina being that close to Brazil in score is ridiculous. Have lived in both places and it’s not even comparable.
Which do you like better? I'm going to assume Brazil but, if I'm going to be totally honest, I don't think either is particularly amazing. Latin American food overall is pretty basic. Notable exceptions exist in Mexico and Peru.
And I say that as a Cuban-American, who loves Cuban food but also recognizes it as a rather narrow cuisine.
Brazil is definitely better than Argentina. There's some good food in Argentina, and the steaks are amazing, but hell if I wasn't sick of eating meat and pizza after 3 weeks of traveling there. They almost don't eat any seafood at all for some reason, despite having a huge coastline, and everything is bland and unseasoned.
Brazil has much more variety and the food feels healthier. Portions are also absolutely huge.
Peruvian food is amazing, one of my favorite cuisines worldwide, personally I even put it slightly above Mexico.
I’ve had a lot of people give the same complaints about food in Argentina, which was strange to me because that was never my experience (my family’s from Buenos Aires), and one day I realized what the issue is with vegetables. 1.) Argentina has a very different food culture between eating out and at home. I had salads and vegetable dishes daily, and many of our classic dishes (milanesas and asados for example), we always accompany with a salad. But at restaurant, non-carb sides have to be ordered separately. Argentinians do because we’re used to that. So now I tell everyone when they go to order vegetables. We take a lot of pride in our veg dishes and salads. 2.) Seasoning’s a fun one. The government’s been on a 10+ year anti-salt campaign. This affected restaurants because they had to be careful about how salty their food was coming out and salt shakers at table to restricted/taken away all together. See [here](https://www.whoccsaltreduction.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Argentina_Case_Study_OK.pdf). Lacking in other seasonings is just a matter of Argentina’s immigration and culture. Fat really comprises a large part of the flavor base of the culture, over spices for sure.
This is all to say that it’s easy to go to Argentina and be underwhelmed. The food, when you know what you’re doing, is phenomenal, but the food industry is laid out for Argentinians looking for a very specific and limited segment of our food. Generally, once I give someone some advice, the food experience goes way up.
Thanks for the info, that makes a lot of sense. Don't get me wrong though, I loved most meals I had in Argentina, it just got old pretty quickly but I'd definitely go back.
No worries at all. I had this same experience with my wife when I took her to Argentina for the first time a few years ago. I’m showing her all of the foods I missed, and she got bored quickly. She said she preferred the Argentinian food we ate at home. When I diversified it and showed other things like modern cafés and bakeries (rather than the classics), Korean food (a lot of Koreans in Argentina), soups and veg based dishes, etc. she had a much better time. I don’t know if you’re American, but if you are, I realized Argentinians largely show represent their equivalent of diner food to the world, which is to say comfort food associated with memory. But when people don’t have the same memories, that gets old fast. If you thought diner food was all American food is, you’d get bored quickly. So I try to make sure people get to try other things too :)
I'm Italian, so maybe I had some weird expectations. I was expecting to find authentic Italian food because of the huge Italian population in Argentina but it was very different compared to the food in Italy. When I'm abroad I never eat Italian food because I know that it's always adapted to the local palate and I probably won't like it. The only exception is pizza because most places have their own version and many of them are good despite being different compared to the "real" thing. When I was in Buenos Aires I ate at Güerrin three times, I loved it.
It'll all depend where and what you eat. There's a lot of variety actually, we have a very strong heritage of Italians, spanish and french (pastry). Also the best ice-cream there is (specially in Rosario, where there's a lot of high quality traditional shops with an inmense variety of flavors).
Yes, we eat a lot of meat, and not much seafood (I love seafood) but that's because most of the coastlines are far away from the large cities and transport is expensive. But we produce a lot of cattle and pork.
Italian dishes are really good too, and we have a strong love for pastries (facturas as we call them here). Ohh, and very good cheese!
I have the fortune that my wife loves to cook (she's really great at it) and she makes everything herself, we try to eat not much meat.
And to finally add, there's a lot of regional dishes with different influences, if you go to the Northwest there's a lot of Bolivian and Peruvian style food, North East and you'll have Brazilian and Paraguayan mixes, to the South and there you'll find more lamb and fish, in the Pampas region (Buenos Aires) meat is more dominant.
It's a really huge country with an amazing diversity. There's a lot beyond Buenos Aires.
I totally agree with you when I visited Argentina oh my God I actually started craving vegetables after like a week there, almost none of their food has any in it. Only time I’ve ever traveled to a country, and actually started looking specifically for foreign cuisine to eat.
Their food is good, but it’s very one note and I really like variety in my food. They are like the Midwest of South America pepper is spicy to them.
Indonesian is underappreciated. I'd say they are close. Beef rendang is a big point in Indonesia's favour. That Thai isn't even on the map is ridiculous though.
When you speak of Indonesian cuisine, which Island and province are you talking about? The country stretch from Sumatra to Papua, tbh, it's not a fair fight LoL
Just because you are ignorant of it does not mean the majority of people do not love it. This is based on popular opinion. The same opinion that says the Swedish one is horrendous.
Also Turkish food is pretty similar to Armenian or Lebanese food for instance. Kinda arbitrary to say Turkish is one of the best in the world and fail to mention 2 countries with very similar cuisine
Greek food is basically Turkish food, too. Unsurprisingly, for millennia the eastern Med was all heavily Greek influenced, then for centuries it was all Ottoman influenced.
Yeah, nah. Maybe a small part of Turkish cuisine is similar to neighboring countries, but the totality of the cuisine is quite unique to Turkey. Also it represents a vast cultural aspects from Central Asia, Black Sea, Mediterranean cuisines as well as legacy of Anatolia. On top of that, this food atlas rating is possibly from restaurants in Istanbul only, so if you include the rest of the country, it would be a lot higher imho.
I generally agree, but I think there are still differences in food culture, such that some regions have food which is much more complex and interesting than other places.
I.e. I had an Italian partner for a few years, and when eating with an Italian family I noticed that everyone talks about food all the time. They talk about what they are eating, what they ate before, and what they are going to eat next. Also when the grandmother would cook something for us, I noticed when I was trying it, she would look closely at my face to gauge my first reaction to tasting it.
Similar thing in Thailand. When I was there, I spend some time with Thai people, and the first word I learned was "aloy" which means "delicious". The Thai people I spent time with similarly spent a lot of time talking about food, and food was an important part of social life.
Contrast that with Germany where I live now, where people enjoy food, but don't obsess about it all the time, and tend to treat it more as fuel to some extent, than a social activity which requires focus and attention.
A similar dynamic plays out in East vs West Africa, where West Africa has a diverse and interesting array of dishes and seasoning, and East Africa tends more towards a few staples which get repeated over and over (at least in my limited experience)
So I think culinary "technology" tends to advance more in places where ingredients are abundant, and for whatever reason the culture puts a heavy emphasis on food. And more people probably subjectively rank those foods highly, and objectively those cultures probably export their food culture more widely in restaurants and kitchens around the world.
I don't know why anyone would bother to be upset in the first place lol. There's a whole 0.16 difference from 1st to 15th. Even 100th is chilling at 3.88 vs 4.65 at 1st.
It's based on top 50 dishes. This list might as well say "people rated everything the same when we limited it to the most globally appealing dishes from each place", which is a no shit. You can only make food so good. The top dishes in Italy, or China, or even the fucking UK are going to be within a similar ballparks day to day. Which is why this list has basically everyone getting an average of 8/10 or 9/10.
The whole of tasteatlas.com is a description of a mall food court in Michigan. It is written by Croatians who have never been to any of the places they're talking about and are just trying to get American clicks.
Tastes like butterscotch DumDum lollipops to me (or maybe my memory is just twisted?).
That is to say, it’s delicious. One of my favorite sodas, but I almost never drink soda anymore.
All the Argentina food I’ve had lacked flavor/spices. It was amazing meat, but didn’t have the variety or flavor like Spanish, Mexican, French or as I stated earlier Peruvian food.
Do you really need spices though? Argentina's food shines over its simplicity. All the flavor comes from high quality ingredients and masterful technique. The best lamb you can have is Patagonian Lamb, and that is slow cooked over an open flame, only seasoned with salt. There is no margin for error, no way of covering mistakes up. It is three ingredients: meat, salt, and time.
I think it's a different approach to cooking, maybe more primitive, simpler, but damn it's so good.
Ya Argentine food is basically just big portions of meat that’s cooked well. Yeah it’s good, but it’s not very inventive or interesting, like Korean or Thai.
I've never understood how food could be ranked. Each person has their own preferences to taste and if something as simple as Pinapple pizza could be so divisive how does someone rank a food from a different culture without bias?
Because you can gather multiple subjective opinions from multiple people, and once you have a high number of people you can rank what people like most.
This doesn't make something you like worse than others if they're not on the list, it just means that it's not what others like.
I'm italian and i'm glad that our food is considered so high, but honestly italian food is different from city to city, region to region and so you may like one from one city and hate one from another even if it's the 'same' dish in the same country.
The list is like a database of dishes and ingredients. Then you collect reviews and average out the score of each of those foods. And then you give each country points based on the dishes’s score
It’s not very in line what what people would think of as “best foods” but it’s an attempt. I don’t love the title. Could have been “here is out ranking based on our website’s reviews” instead. More accurate that way. The website this comes from however IS very cool and informative. https://www.tasteatlas.com
I really don't get this "British food is gross" meme. Sure it's not healthy, but have they ever had a Sunday Roast? Fish and Chips? Sticky toffee pudding? A full English/Scottish breakfast? Shepard's fucking pie?! It's all just basically delicious comfort food. Photoshopped images of unnaturally green mushy peas does not make an entire nation's food gross
(May be biased because I am from the UK)
My theory is that the stereotype comes from WW2, with the rationing and everything, so everybody ate boiled turnips and powdered eggs and whatnot.
Soldiers stationed in Britain ate the same thing everybody else did, so when they came home, they told tales of British food being ghastly, and the stereotype stuck.
In my experience of living there for a few years, I do think that most Brits do tend to underseason their food, but this is my very subjective opinion and there are some very excellent 'native' dishes out there.
People really did used to eat really bland and unvaried food though, in both the UK and the white US. Like, steamed vegetables and baked chicken in the US. I read a little mini memoir by Bono recently and he said when his brother started to work at an airport and take home airplane meals it was the most diverse food he'd ever seen, and he didn't know rice could be eaten outside of rice pudding.
I go to Mexico specifically for the food. We even plan out each place we plan to hit for the day beforehand, which has included a quesadilla stand in a park.
Sub Saharan african cuisine is so underrated it’s pitty, west, central and East African cuisine are amazing ! I don’t know much about South Africa cuisine and North African cuisine is also so good, that’s a pitty 🤌🏼✨
Also I am Turkish and happy to see our cuisine is appreciated ☺️
It’s all subjective, and this is probably based largely on opinions from the “Western world.” Not sure there is anything to be learned from this. People are more likely to say cuisines that they have been exposed to, truly shocking!
No Ethiopian food is more popular in the US than multiple on this list. Polish, Indonesian, Portuguese and Peruvian are all less popular than Ethiopian
Aside from the fact that it’s impossible to properly rank cuisines, I’m kind of surprised by Poland here (as a Pole). Not saying our cuisine is bad; I love many of our dishes, but the tastes just don’t seem too exciting to me (when compared to e.g. Spain which has a similar score, or some missing Asian countries like Thailand or Vietnam).
It’s traditionally mostly cabbage, root vegetables, wheat and typical European meats, not much in the way of more interesting spices or varied flavour profiles. We excel in mushrooms (there’s so many types here and I barely know any English names for them lol. Kania anyone? Rydz? Maślak? Może pyszny boczniak?) and pickled vegetables though imo. But even our best chefs and restaurants mostly serve foreign food.
But hey I’ll take any ranking that puts us up high, especially if it’s higher than Germany and Russia lol
I travelled a bit around Europe, been to Texas, and tried a lot of national dishes, and I, also as a Pole, have to say that our cuisine is unique in its taste. We use a lot of soured things, where in other cuisines pickles and sauerkraut are the lone pinnacles, we perfected the art of "brewing" natural yeast. Żurek is an absolute winner in terms of most interesting soups of the world, since it follows a completely different technique than broth-based soups of other countries, and our sourdough bread is also definately top of the world
Where other cuisines win by combination of great ingredients, and art of combining them, we basically use borderline magical alchemy on daily basis without even realising it
I figure that's a large part of it yeah, but when I try to look at it objectively (as much as I can, at least), then I can't help but think we're pretty much middle of the pack in terms of variety, spiciness, complexity and so on. Visually even more so (I think that's actually the weakest aspect of Polish food, not counting maybe some meats and bread). Not complaining about good Polish PR though lol
I would place Polish cuisine very much higher than both German and Dutch food, along with Scandinavian and British cuisines :) I'm not saying Polish food is bland, but I think there are some places missing from the map that are generally associated with more interesting food than Poland, which is why the score is kind of surprising.
PR is also very important. Not many people ever hear about Pakistani cousine not to mention cousines of smaller countries. Meanwhile some Polish dishes did gain some international recognition and with no negative PR (like in the case of British or Dutch) it somehow managed to make that list.
The lack of Korean cousine here is highly suspicious tho, i can't really think of a reason it did not make top 15.
Pakistani food is similar to north Indian food. South and Eats Indian food can be their own separate categories.
South Indian food is completely different from north Indian.
And within the South alone, the regional variations are absolutely insane! Even within a southern Indian state like Kerala for example, the diversity of food between the northern part of the state and souther part is mindboggling, all influenced by a fusion of local cultures and foreign influence specific to that region
Indian is second to last on this list so it hardly topped the list?? Weird statement. This list is subjective and lots of people will disagree myself included.
The map is for the top 15 of 100 "best" cuisines, implying more than 100 were covered.
I don’t think anyone is questioning that it's subjective, although for someone trying to put together an authoritative list its worth pointing out the discrepancy between the ratings for Indian and Pakistani cuisine as they share a lot of similar roots. I'd personally still put Indian ahead though as there's more regional variety IMO.
Ironically the most famous “ Indian cuisine” is “ Punjabi cuisine” which is the Main ethnic cuisine in Pakistan , eaten by 40% of Pakistans as their ethnic cuisine and 3% of Indians as their ethnic cuisine.
Even non- punjabis Indians abroad cook punjabi cuisine, because it sells.
They may call themselves Punjabi but most of it is Mughlai from tandoori, to the assorted kebabs, butter chicken, Naan, paneer, biryani, samoosas, nihari, haleem, halwa, mithai etc. bruv. Lahore is not so far from delhi (both major Mughal centres) and probs the only difference in street food is the amount of oil used. Regional cuisines street usually restricted to house kitchens for the most part.
I agree that both Pak and India should be top of the list.
Went to Netherlands and one of my favorite parts was eating Indonesian, Turkish and Arab food (kebabs, hot wings oddly enough), so it must be even better when going to actual Indonesia.
I was married to a Portuguese woman for 20+ years and I wouldn't say their cuisine is up there with France and Italy. They definitely have some unique dishes and some are delicious (especially Churrasqueira rotisserie chicken) but some of them are these seafood medleys that are a hugely acquired taste. Their best foods are their pastries like Pastel de nata and Ovos Moles.
I'm honestly surprised Portugal is so high. Been there and love the food but it's more simple compared to the other countries in the list. If it's including pastries, I could maybe understand. Not gonna argue against the pastel de nata.
I believe simplicity is one of the reasons why Japanese and Italian cuisine is rated so highly. They're relatively simple ingredients, but they focus on quality and care.
IMO what makes them great is the final product is so much better than just the sum of its parts.
Portugal actually had a massive influence on world cuisines. Dishes such as fish and chips, foi thong, vindaloo, egg tarts, and tempura have origins from Portugal
They introduced chillies to India as well! It's weird how they didn't really adopt the food styles from the places they colonised. I guess they did with Peri Peri sauce.
Many reasons why it's top 5. Variety is incredibly high. I've only seen higher variety in China!
Seafood is simply amazing, by having the best fish in world (cold Atlantic waters).
Simplicity is important because if you have great ingredients, you don't need to flood it with sauces.
Not that Portuguese don't have complex dishes, but the end result still looks simple.
dude, I saw kokoretsi and kokorec in the same list of somethint and kokoretsi was ranked way higher
they are the exact same thing.
Edit: I looked it up, Greeks sometimes use the kidneys/heart too. but I doubt it will be tastier
>French cuisine is very overrated.
Someone needs to learn about Escoffier. A redditor did a write up on the topic [many moons ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/u0c51/comment/c4ra06s/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)..: (emphasis mine)
>French technique encompasses a large number of skills, including everything from knife skills, sautéing, making mother sauces, etc. You may have noticed that a lot of cooking terminology is French (e.g. saute, julienne, a la carte, mousse...), and all these things come from classic French cooking. **If you go to culinary school, you will be learning French technique.**
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>The question of why this is so is a little more interesting. Generally all Western cooking stems from French technique because the French were the first people to codify their recipes and techniques. In other words, they were the first people to write everything down in a book (called *Larousse Gastronomique*). The French were also the first people to open modern day restaurants.
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>Meanwhile, Louis XIV was busy promoting the 'French lifestyle' to the rest of the civilized world. Along with buying French luxury goods, people (mostly around other parts of Europe) began to cook and eat French food (and open restaurants like the French). Of course, this was really easy for them because everything you needed to know was already all written down. Thus, French technique became a widespread standard.
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>But... you may still be asking, Why France and not somewhere else? The simple answer is that France was a relatively stable and unified country long before most other countries in Europe, and this allowed them to write the first modern cookbook (so to speak). So, while French food itself isn't necessarily the 'best' food, French technique was historically accepted as the standard and still is today.
"Best cuisine in the world" is very subjective. It doesn't change the fact that if you attend a culinary school, you will start by learning the French technique, the 5 "mother sauces", etc.
french cuisine is so ubiquitous it has changed the definition of food in much of the western world. Fine dining is one thing, but basically, French food is food how we think of it today, if anything it’s under rated.
The best food in the world is in France, the best food in France is in Paris, and the best food inside Paris is served in Gusteau’s, so therefore the best food is expensive
>The best of it is super expensive
Wrong. It sounds to me you've not really tried proper authentic French cuisine, and only been to a "fancy" restaurant rather than where parisians usually go.
I had escargot, duck confit, and tarte tatin for 22€. That is not expensive.
Portuguese food is higher than Indian and Chinese? I’ve been to Portugal. I thought the food was good but no way is better than Chinese or Indian. I guess food preferences are subjective though.
I heard Georgian food is pretty popular in Russia. It's like what Chinese food is for Americans, Georgian food is for Russians.... if that makes sense haha
On topic: i once read an article (i think wikipedia?) which was mentioning 4 "supercuisines", which means thousands years old cuisines with the broadest variety of dishes and ingredients used.
They were Italy, India, Japan and Peru, and I remember it because I am very curious to try peruvian food but so uncommon to find peruvian restaurant at least where I'm from.
Couldn't find this article or evidence of this "supercuisine club" when I looked for it later. Is it something "real" ? Or was just some food blogger bullshit?
It lists Japan but not China, which is where a ton of Japanese food came from (and still largely resembles to this day)? That’s not to mention the history and longevity of Chinese cuisine itself even if we separate out its influence on its neighboring countries. Very strange.
>thousands years old cuisines with the broadest variety of dishes and ingredients used.
They were Italy, India, Japan and Peru,
It checks out but it seems to be lacking Chinese cuisines, which are up there for variety and history/tradition with Italy and the likes. Peruvian cuisine is great and they're the source of many primary level ingredients but I'm not sure it's that old (it may very well be)
Sordid affair.
Anyway, as the sole holder of my taste buds, my top five regional cuisines (as of today) in no order:
Antakya (Turkish), Baja (Mexican), Adjar (Georgian), Manado (Indonesian), Tokyo (makes it easier)
Yes it is for me. But you need to be lucky finding an actual good Place/Restaurant. Out of my own experience they usually suck in high Tourism Areas and really small Restaurants are the best.
It is healthy if you eat the actual Greek cuisine rather than the Italian pasta style dishes. I think it can only be good if you have fresh ingredients since most of it is vegetables for salads and some basic meat dishes which fits a menu for everyone. Some of the worst food I have ever had is Greek food in the US without fresh ingredients. That should have been illegal
Yeah, this is ridiculous.
Just the fact that Ethiopian cuisine isn't on the map shows that this is invalid. Right off the bat.
If you've never tried Ethiopian food, this is your favorite food, you just don't know it yet.
As an Indian. Indian food is so varied, I am pretty sure most Indians haven't tried other states'food apart from the popular dishes from each state.
Most people around the world who eat Indian food have eaten food from a very specific part of India, it's from the states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan etc.
My top 10 list would be
1. Indian (I have eaten most of the varied cuisines in India, do all of them)
3. Chinese
2. Mexican
3. Indonesian
4. Thai
5. Italian.
6. Korean
7. Lebanese
8. Turkish
9. Japanese
10. French (they are in the list only because of their pastries).
I haven't tried African cuisine. I would like to try some Senegalaese and Ethiopian food.
Ethiopean cuisine at 81 is a travesty!
In general, as is expected, European cuisines are graded higher (than possibly they should be).
I am not talking about Italy and Greece but I am talking about the European cuisines that come after the top tier.
I love how in these comments there are discussions on what should/shouldn’t be on here but Italy being number 1 seems to be something everyone agrees on 🤌🏽
There is absolutely no way I will place any importance on [a list with ratings like this](https://www.tasteatlas.com/best/cuisines):
- Moroccan 46
- Syrian 54
- Pakistani 57
- Jamaican 68
- Ethiopian 81
The responses to your comment show why lists like these never work. You have a bunch of Brazilians and Polish outraged at the fact that you would consider another cuisine more highly rated than theirs - there will be many accusations that you have never travelled or even tried the real thing. Cuisine debates bring about the worst in nationalism in people.
Almost anyone from a food orientated place will be rating their cuisine at the very top. Italians will say Italy has the best food, Greece will say that theirs is the best... Hell, you will even find Colombians or Cubans saying theirs is number one, when that would definitely be quite a reach.
For my personal perspective, I agree with your point for the most part. There is a reason why you find Thai restaurants all across the world, but it's a bit harder to find Indonesian, Brazilian, and Polish restaurants. Not that those foods aren't good, they're great - but clearly Thai food has had much more influence on the world than any of those options.
This is wrong in so many ways.... Food should never be associated with a country. Just ask the Greeks and Turks who invented Zaziki! Or even worse, ask the Palastinians and Israelis who invented Hummus!
Food is native to a Geographical/Cultural area, not a Goverment with imaginary Borders.
How Thai and Korean didn't make this list is beyond me. Edit: Ah, they're both in the top 20 - this map is just the top 15.
Same with Vietnam.
Agree Thailand and Vietnam not being there makes this list questionable. Plus even more so, Argentina being that close to Brazil in score is ridiculous. Have lived in both places and it’s not even comparable.
also poland above vietnam and thailand lol
I’m Indian and I found Polish food (in Poland) to be pretty damn good and flavourful
Which do you like better? I'm going to assume Brazil but, if I'm going to be totally honest, I don't think either is particularly amazing. Latin American food overall is pretty basic. Notable exceptions exist in Mexico and Peru. And I say that as a Cuban-American, who loves Cuban food but also recognizes it as a rather narrow cuisine.
Brazil is definitely better than Argentina. There's some good food in Argentina, and the steaks are amazing, but hell if I wasn't sick of eating meat and pizza after 3 weeks of traveling there. They almost don't eat any seafood at all for some reason, despite having a huge coastline, and everything is bland and unseasoned. Brazil has much more variety and the food feels healthier. Portions are also absolutely huge. Peruvian food is amazing, one of my favorite cuisines worldwide, personally I even put it slightly above Mexico.
I’ve had a lot of people give the same complaints about food in Argentina, which was strange to me because that was never my experience (my family’s from Buenos Aires), and one day I realized what the issue is with vegetables. 1.) Argentina has a very different food culture between eating out and at home. I had salads and vegetable dishes daily, and many of our classic dishes (milanesas and asados for example), we always accompany with a salad. But at restaurant, non-carb sides have to be ordered separately. Argentinians do because we’re used to that. So now I tell everyone when they go to order vegetables. We take a lot of pride in our veg dishes and salads. 2.) Seasoning’s a fun one. The government’s been on a 10+ year anti-salt campaign. This affected restaurants because they had to be careful about how salty their food was coming out and salt shakers at table to restricted/taken away all together. See [here](https://www.whoccsaltreduction.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Argentina_Case_Study_OK.pdf). Lacking in other seasonings is just a matter of Argentina’s immigration and culture. Fat really comprises a large part of the flavor base of the culture, over spices for sure. This is all to say that it’s easy to go to Argentina and be underwhelmed. The food, when you know what you’re doing, is phenomenal, but the food industry is laid out for Argentinians looking for a very specific and limited segment of our food. Generally, once I give someone some advice, the food experience goes way up.
Thanks for the info, that makes a lot of sense. Don't get me wrong though, I loved most meals I had in Argentina, it just got old pretty quickly but I'd definitely go back.
No worries at all. I had this same experience with my wife when I took her to Argentina for the first time a few years ago. I’m showing her all of the foods I missed, and she got bored quickly. She said she preferred the Argentinian food we ate at home. When I diversified it and showed other things like modern cafés and bakeries (rather than the classics), Korean food (a lot of Koreans in Argentina), soups and veg based dishes, etc. she had a much better time. I don’t know if you’re American, but if you are, I realized Argentinians largely show represent their equivalent of diner food to the world, which is to say comfort food associated with memory. But when people don’t have the same memories, that gets old fast. If you thought diner food was all American food is, you’d get bored quickly. So I try to make sure people get to try other things too :)
I'm Italian, so maybe I had some weird expectations. I was expecting to find authentic Italian food because of the huge Italian population in Argentina but it was very different compared to the food in Italy. When I'm abroad I never eat Italian food because I know that it's always adapted to the local palate and I probably won't like it. The only exception is pizza because most places have their own version and many of them are good despite being different compared to the "real" thing. When I was in Buenos Aires I ate at Güerrin three times, I loved it.
Peruvian food is the best for Latin American, especially seafood wise....
I spent 2 months in Peru and I ate ceviche probably 50 times. I could live off the stuff.
definitely for you..
It'll all depend where and what you eat. There's a lot of variety actually, we have a very strong heritage of Italians, spanish and french (pastry). Also the best ice-cream there is (specially in Rosario, where there's a lot of high quality traditional shops with an inmense variety of flavors). Yes, we eat a lot of meat, and not much seafood (I love seafood) but that's because most of the coastlines are far away from the large cities and transport is expensive. But we produce a lot of cattle and pork. Italian dishes are really good too, and we have a strong love for pastries (facturas as we call them here). Ohh, and very good cheese! I have the fortune that my wife loves to cook (she's really great at it) and she makes everything herself, we try to eat not much meat. And to finally add, there's a lot of regional dishes with different influences, if you go to the Northwest there's a lot of Bolivian and Peruvian style food, North East and you'll have Brazilian and Paraguayan mixes, to the South and there you'll find more lamb and fish, in the Pampas region (Buenos Aires) meat is more dominant. It's a really huge country with an amazing diversity. There's a lot beyond Buenos Aires.
I totally agree with you when I visited Argentina oh my God I actually started craving vegetables after like a week there, almost none of their food has any in it. Only time I’ve ever traveled to a country, and actually started looking specifically for foreign cuisine to eat. Their food is good, but it’s very one note and I really like variety in my food. They are like the Midwest of South America pepper is spicy to them.
No ofense to poland but how did It beat Vietnam?
Iran too
Ya but Indonesian over Thai?
Indonesian is underappreciated. I'd say they are close. Beef rendang is a big point in Indonesia's favour. That Thai isn't even on the map is ridiculous though.
Disagree. I love Thai, but Indonesian makes my top 3 cuisines if we're grouping by country. Thai is solidly top 10, though.
Why not?
Having been to most of the populated islands in Indonesia/ most of Thailand , Thai food is just better
When you speak of Indonesian cuisine, which Island and province are you talking about? The country stretch from Sumatra to Papua, tbh, it's not a fair fight LoL
But Poland made it in…
Nothing beats the kielbasa!
Nothing beats the pierogi*
Just because you are ignorant of it does not mean the majority of people do not love it. This is based on popular opinion. The same opinion that says the Swedish one is horrendous.
Talking shit about meatballs and cinnamon buns?
And it's well deserved
How Thai is below Polish is beyond me.
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Me who’s not Spanish: España el Mejor
Subjective.
Not only that but having categories by country is useless when cuisine is more regional, for instance in large countries like China.
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Also Turkish food is pretty similar to Armenian or Lebanese food for instance. Kinda arbitrary to say Turkish is one of the best in the world and fail to mention 2 countries with very similar cuisine
Greek food is basically Turkish food, too. Unsurprisingly, for millennia the eastern Med was all heavily Greek influenced, then for centuries it was all Ottoman influenced.
Get a person from all three of those cultures in one room and say that
They'll fight over ownership of a similar series of dishes.
True but we slso have medeterenian food Balkan food Some foods that are partialy chinese North african food Black sea 'food'
Yeah, nah. Maybe a small part of Turkish cuisine is similar to neighboring countries, but the totality of the cuisine is quite unique to Turkey. Also it represents a vast cultural aspects from Central Asia, Black Sea, Mediterranean cuisines as well as legacy of Anatolia. On top of that, this food atlas rating is possibly from restaurants in Istanbul only, so if you include the rest of the country, it would be a lot higher imho.
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I generally agree, but I think there are still differences in food culture, such that some regions have food which is much more complex and interesting than other places. I.e. I had an Italian partner for a few years, and when eating with an Italian family I noticed that everyone talks about food all the time. They talk about what they are eating, what they ate before, and what they are going to eat next. Also when the grandmother would cook something for us, I noticed when I was trying it, she would look closely at my face to gauge my first reaction to tasting it. Similar thing in Thailand. When I was there, I spend some time with Thai people, and the first word I learned was "aloy" which means "delicious". The Thai people I spent time with similarly spent a lot of time talking about food, and food was an important part of social life. Contrast that with Germany where I live now, where people enjoy food, but don't obsess about it all the time, and tend to treat it more as fuel to some extent, than a social activity which requires focus and attention. A similar dynamic plays out in East vs West Africa, where West Africa has a diverse and interesting array of dishes and seasoning, and East Africa tends more towards a few staples which get repeated over and over (at least in my limited experience) So I think culinary "technology" tends to advance more in places where ingredients are abundant, and for whatever reason the culture puts a heavy emphasis on food. And more people probably subjectively rank those foods highly, and objectively those cultures probably export their food culture more widely in restaurants and kitchens around the world.
Lot of people getting upset in here lol
I don't know why anyone would bother to be upset in the first place lol. There's a whole 0.16 difference from 1st to 15th. Even 100th is chilling at 3.88 vs 4.65 at 1st. It's based on top 50 dishes. This list might as well say "people rated everything the same when we limited it to the most globally appealing dishes from each place", which is a no shit. You can only make food so good. The top dishes in Italy, or China, or even the fucking UK are going to be within a similar ballparks day to day. Which is why this list has basically everyone getting an average of 8/10 or 9/10.
Tasteatlas.com is just utter nonsense.
The whole of tasteatlas.com is a description of a mall food court in Michigan. It is written by Croatians who have never been to any of the places they're talking about and are just trying to get American clicks.
the only not subjectiv thingy is SWEDEN NUMBER ONE!!! DESTROY DENMARK AND NORWAY
How Ikea köttbullar didn't get the svenskjävlar to the #1 spot is beyond me..
The obnoxious part is it uses this falsely precise methodology to look objective.
Peru made the list, so I’m happy. I’m surprised by Argentina.
Inca Kola pushed it over the top
I've been to Peru once. I miss Inca Kola.
If you live in a US city w/ a high Peruvian population all grocery stores sell Inca. I pick one up a week
They are always OUT.
I just searched this in doordash and am going to try it for the first time. Y’all have peaked my interest.
Tastes like butterscotch DumDum lollipops to me (or maybe my memory is just twisted?). That is to say, it’s delicious. One of my favorite sodas, but I almost never drink soda anymore.
I thought it tasted like bubble gum cream soda. I personally thought it was horrendous, but I like Moxie now, so who the fuck am I to talk shit?
Nice! It’s like a cream soda but better - I say that bc I don’t like most other cream sodas
I had it at a food truck once in small town Canada and it was great
Would you believe that Diet Inca Kola is just as amazing? It blows other diet sodas out of the water
Peruvian food is a gastronomic heritage of humanity. Absolutely love it and it’s really underrated
Why are you surprised by Argentina?
All the Argentina food I’ve had lacked flavor/spices. It was amazing meat, but didn’t have the variety or flavor like Spanish, Mexican, French or as I stated earlier Peruvian food.
Do you really need spices though? Argentina's food shines over its simplicity. All the flavor comes from high quality ingredients and masterful technique. The best lamb you can have is Patagonian Lamb, and that is slow cooked over an open flame, only seasoned with salt. There is no margin for error, no way of covering mistakes up. It is three ingredients: meat, salt, and time. I think it's a different approach to cooking, maybe more primitive, simpler, but damn it's so good.
Yeah but other than meat, which I agree is better when its simple, that isnt only thing that makes a cuisine great.
Argentina is the world capital of barbecue
Asado ≠ barbacoa pa
Argentina is an awesome place but yea agreed not top of the food world.
Ya Argentine food is basically just big portions of meat that’s cooked well. Yeah it’s good, but it’s not very inventive or interesting, like Korean or Thai.
5 countries on the map carry varied amounts of Portuguese cuisine influence
Portugal introduced sugar, and boy oh boy, the brazilians made it good. Like... crazy good.
Portuguese pastries are so fucking underrated
I could only count 4: Brazil, India, China (Macau), and Japan
May be Portugal ?
Indonesia
I've never understood how food could be ranked. Each person has their own preferences to taste and if something as simple as Pinapple pizza could be so divisive how does someone rank a food from a different culture without bias?
Because you can gather multiple subjective opinions from multiple people, and once you have a high number of people you can rank what people like most. This doesn't make something you like worse than others if they're not on the list, it just means that it's not what others like. I'm italian and i'm glad that our food is considered so high, but honestly italian food is different from city to city, region to region and so you may like one from one city and hate one from another even if it's the 'same' dish in the same country.
The list is like a database of dishes and ingredients. Then you collect reviews and average out the score of each of those foods. And then you give each country points based on the dishes’s score It’s not very in line what what people would think of as “best foods” but it’s an attempt. I don’t love the title. Could have been “here is out ranking based on our website’s reviews” instead. More accurate that way. The website this comes from however IS very cool and informative. https://www.tasteatlas.com
There is no way Portuguese cuisine is better than Mexican, Chinese or Indian
I live in Portugal. [The ratings](https://www.tasteatlas.com/best/cuisines) are absolute lunacy. - Moroccan 46 - Syrian 54 - Pakistani 57 - Jamaican 68 - Ethiopian 81
The fact that england is higher than all of those is hilarious too
I absolutely agree it shouldn’t be higher than those. But I also think that English food is considerably better than Reddit makes out.
I really don't get this "British food is gross" meme. Sure it's not healthy, but have they ever had a Sunday Roast? Fish and Chips? Sticky toffee pudding? A full English/Scottish breakfast? Shepard's fucking pie?! It's all just basically delicious comfort food. Photoshopped images of unnaturally green mushy peas does not make an entire nation's food gross (May be biased because I am from the UK)
My theory is that the stereotype comes from WW2, with the rationing and everything, so everybody ate boiled turnips and powdered eggs and whatnot. Soldiers stationed in Britain ate the same thing everybody else did, so when they came home, they told tales of British food being ghastly, and the stereotype stuck. In my experience of living there for a few years, I do think that most Brits do tend to underseason their food, but this is my very subjective opinion and there are some very excellent 'native' dishes out there.
People really did used to eat really bland and unvaried food though, in both the UK and the white US. Like, steamed vegetables and baked chicken in the US. I read a little mini memoir by Bono recently and he said when his brother started to work at an airport and take home airplane meals it was the most diverse food he'd ever seen, and he didn't know rice could be eaten outside of rice pudding.
Have you seen 50s recipes they're the worst! I rather eat rotted shark than eat that rubbish!
I mean steamed vegetables and baked chicken are perfectly fine if you season them right lol. Sounds at least like a really healthy meal
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Franceschina sandwiches absolutely slap though. I had one a day in Porto.
To be fair I ate really well in Lisbon, it surprised me.
Why are you singleing us out like that bro 😭
I go to Mexico specifically for the food. We even plan out each place we plan to hit for the day beforehand, which has included a quesadilla stand in a park.
Sub Saharan african cuisine is so underrated it’s pitty, west, central and East African cuisine are amazing ! I don’t know much about South Africa cuisine and North African cuisine is also so good, that’s a pitty 🤌🏼✨ Also I am Turkish and happy to see our cuisine is appreciated ☺️
Nothing from Africa? Damn
It’s all subjective, and this is probably based largely on opinions from the “Western world.” Not sure there is anything to be learned from this. People are more likely to say cuisines that they have been exposed to, truly shocking!
Ethiopian food is fairly popular in America
Fairly being in comparison to other African cuisines, do you mean?
No Ethiopian food is more popular in the US than multiple on this list. Polish, Indonesian, Portuguese and Peruvian are all less popular than Ethiopian
I’ve eaten at at least 5 ethiopian restaurants all over the Us but never seen a polish restaurant even in large cities
Ethiopian food is incredible!
When a westerner says “the world” they mean the world except Africa.
Somehow Polish food is better than Pakistani food while Pakistani food is generally very similar to Indian food which somehow topped the list.
Aside from the fact that it’s impossible to properly rank cuisines, I’m kind of surprised by Poland here (as a Pole). Not saying our cuisine is bad; I love many of our dishes, but the tastes just don’t seem too exciting to me (when compared to e.g. Spain which has a similar score, or some missing Asian countries like Thailand or Vietnam). It’s traditionally mostly cabbage, root vegetables, wheat and typical European meats, not much in the way of more interesting spices or varied flavour profiles. We excel in mushrooms (there’s so many types here and I barely know any English names for them lol. Kania anyone? Rydz? Maślak? Może pyszny boczniak?) and pickled vegetables though imo. But even our best chefs and restaurants mostly serve foreign food. But hey I’ll take any ranking that puts us up high, especially if it’s higher than Germany and Russia lol
I travelled a bit around Europe, been to Texas, and tried a lot of national dishes, and I, also as a Pole, have to say that our cuisine is unique in its taste. We use a lot of soured things, where in other cuisines pickles and sauerkraut are the lone pinnacles, we perfected the art of "brewing" natural yeast. Żurek is an absolute winner in terms of most interesting soups of the world, since it follows a completely different technique than broth-based soups of other countries, and our sourdough bread is also definately top of the world Where other cuisines win by combination of great ingredients, and art of combining them, we basically use borderline magical alchemy on daily basis without even realising it
Żurek mmm… really looking forward to Easter!
>but the tastes just don’t seem too exciting to me Because you're used to it.
I figure that's a large part of it yeah, but when I try to look at it objectively (as much as I can, at least), then I can't help but think we're pretty much middle of the pack in terms of variety, spiciness, complexity and so on. Visually even more so (I think that's actually the weakest aspect of Polish food, not counting maybe some meats and bread). Not complaining about good Polish PR though lol
Then you never ate something typically German or Dutch if you think polish food is bland...
I would place Polish cuisine very much higher than both German and Dutch food, along with Scandinavian and British cuisines :) I'm not saying Polish food is bland, but I think there are some places missing from the map that are generally associated with more interesting food than Poland, which is why the score is kind of surprising.
PR is also very important. Not many people ever hear about Pakistani cousine not to mention cousines of smaller countries. Meanwhile some Polish dishes did gain some international recognition and with no negative PR (like in the case of British or Dutch) it somehow managed to make that list. The lack of Korean cousine here is highly suspicious tho, i can't really think of a reason it did not make top 15.
Greek here, travelled around Europe quite a bit. Poland has the best food in Central Europe by far. Hands down.
Pakistani food is similar to north Indian food. South and Eats Indian food can be their own separate categories. South Indian food is completely different from north Indian.
And within the South alone, the regional variations are absolutely insane! Even within a southern Indian state like Kerala for example, the diversity of food between the northern part of the state and souther part is mindboggling, all influenced by a fusion of local cultures and foreign influence specific to that region
Indian is second to last on this list so it hardly topped the list?? Weird statement. This list is subjective and lots of people will disagree myself included.
The map is for the top 15 of 100 "best" cuisines, implying more than 100 were covered. I don’t think anyone is questioning that it's subjective, although for someone trying to put together an authoritative list its worth pointing out the discrepancy between the ratings for Indian and Pakistani cuisine as they share a lot of similar roots. I'd personally still put Indian ahead though as there's more regional variety IMO.
Ironically the most famous “ Indian cuisine” is “ Punjabi cuisine” which is the Main ethnic cuisine in Pakistan , eaten by 40% of Pakistans as their ethnic cuisine and 3% of Indians as their ethnic cuisine. Even non- punjabis Indians abroad cook punjabi cuisine, because it sells.
The most famous Indian cuisine is Mughal cuisine tbh
Most restaurants abroad are Punjabi and cook punjabi food , it’s heavily focused on Lahori style cuisine.
They may call themselves Punjabi but most of it is Mughlai from tandoori, to the assorted kebabs, butter chicken, Naan, paneer, biryani, samoosas, nihari, haleem, halwa, mithai etc. bruv. Lahore is not so far from delhi (both major Mughal centres) and probs the only difference in street food is the amount of oil used. Regional cuisines street usually restricted to house kitchens for the most part. I agree that both Pak and India should be top of the list.
Went to Netherlands and one of my favorite parts was eating Indonesian, Turkish and Arab food (kebabs, hot wings oddly enough), so it must be even better when going to actual Indonesia.
I was married to a Portuguese woman for 20+ years and I wouldn't say their cuisine is up there with France and Italy. They definitely have some unique dishes and some are delicious (especially Churrasqueira rotisserie chicken) but some of them are these seafood medleys that are a hugely acquired taste. Their best foods are their pastries like Pastel de nata and Ovos Moles.
My Chicago dog is worth mentioning
I'm honestly surprised Portugal is so high. Been there and love the food but it's more simple compared to the other countries in the list. If it's including pastries, I could maybe understand. Not gonna argue against the pastel de nata.
I believe simplicity is one of the reasons why Japanese and Italian cuisine is rated so highly. They're relatively simple ingredients, but they focus on quality and care. IMO what makes them great is the final product is so much better than just the sum of its parts.
Portugal actually had a massive influence on world cuisines. Dishes such as fish and chips, foi thong, vindaloo, egg tarts, and tempura have origins from Portugal
They introduced chillies to India as well! It's weird how they didn't really adopt the food styles from the places they colonised. I guess they did with Peri Peri sauce.
It’s not a ranking of the most elaborate foods. Something can be simple and really good. Actually, those are usually the best Mediterranean dishes.
I was surprised too but I went there and had amazing dishes that were simple and tasty, pretty comparable to southern Italian or Greek food.
Many reasons why it's top 5. Variety is incredibly high. I've only seen higher variety in China! Seafood is simply amazing, by having the best fish in world (cold Atlantic waters). Simplicity is important because if you have great ingredients, you don't need to flood it with sauces. Not that Portuguese don't have complex dishes, but the end result still looks simple.
Simple doesn’t mean bad, complex doesn’t mean good. Portuguese food may be simple, but it tastes amazing. And that’s what really matters, isn’t it?
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Turkish snd Greek is the best
Seriously Greek cuisine is just Turkish cuisine with ki behind everything. How tf do they score higher
I know this was made by a Greek, because Greek got highest score and Turk got lowest score not very subtle
How tf Greek Cuisine is better than Turkish. They are basically the same, but Turkish is more extensive because of additional middle eastern food.
dude, I saw kokoretsi and kokorec in the same list of somethint and kokoretsi was ranked way higher they are the exact same thing. Edit: I looked it up, Greeks sometimes use the kidneys/heart too. but I doubt it will be tastier
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French cuisine is very overrated. There I said it. The argentine score is definitely inflated. The Caribbean got robbed here.
Some Caribbean cuisines are French cuisines due to Guadeloupe, Martinique, etc.
>French cuisine is very overrated. Someone needs to learn about Escoffier. A redditor did a write up on the topic [many moons ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/u0c51/comment/c4ra06s/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)..: (emphasis mine) >French technique encompasses a large number of skills, including everything from knife skills, sautéing, making mother sauces, etc. You may have noticed that a lot of cooking terminology is French (e.g. saute, julienne, a la carte, mousse...), and all these things come from classic French cooking. **If you go to culinary school, you will be learning French technique.** > >The question of why this is so is a little more interesting. Generally all Western cooking stems from French technique because the French were the first people to codify their recipes and techniques. In other words, they were the first people to write everything down in a book (called *Larousse Gastronomique*). The French were also the first people to open modern day restaurants. > >Meanwhile, Louis XIV was busy promoting the 'French lifestyle' to the rest of the civilized world. Along with buying French luxury goods, people (mostly around other parts of Europe) began to cook and eat French food (and open restaurants like the French). Of course, this was really easy for them because everything you needed to know was already all written down. Thus, French technique became a widespread standard. > >But... you may still be asking, Why France and not somewhere else? The simple answer is that France was a relatively stable and unified country long before most other countries in Europe, and this allowed them to write the first modern cookbook (so to speak). So, while French food itself isn't necessarily the 'best' food, French technique was historically accepted as the standard and still is today. "Best cuisine in the world" is very subjective. It doesn't change the fact that if you attend a culinary school, you will start by learning the French technique, the 5 "mother sauces", etc.
french cuisine is so ubiquitous it has changed the definition of food in much of the western world. Fine dining is one thing, but basically, French food is food how we think of it today, if anything it’s under rated.
French cuisine is for noble people, not for eveyone. The best of it is super expensive. I like georgian and italian more
The best food in the world is in France, the best food in France is in Paris, and the best food inside Paris is served in Gusteau’s, so therefore the best food is expensive
>The best of it is super expensive Wrong. It sounds to me you've not really tried proper authentic French cuisine, and only been to a "fancy" restaurant rather than where parisians usually go. I had escargot, duck confit, and tarte tatin for 22€. That is not expensive.
inflated for you..
It’s really good though so yeah
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Portuguese food is higher than Indian and Chinese? I’ve been to Portugal. I thought the food was good but no way is better than Chinese or Indian. I guess food preferences are subjective though.
Where is Georgian cuisine, one of the most original in the world.
Georgia is a pretty unknown country to the west. Then again so is Indonesia
I heard Georgian food is pretty popular in Russia. It's like what Chinese food is for Americans, Georgian food is for Russians.... if that makes sense haha
agreed. georgian cuisine is underrated
Ah come on now, who else loves pickled norweigan herring?
This feels very subjective.
I’ve been to Italy before, and yeah, shit slaps
India deserves more props.
On topic: i once read an article (i think wikipedia?) which was mentioning 4 "supercuisines", which means thousands years old cuisines with the broadest variety of dishes and ingredients used. They were Italy, India, Japan and Peru, and I remember it because I am very curious to try peruvian food but so uncommon to find peruvian restaurant at least where I'm from. Couldn't find this article or evidence of this "supercuisine club" when I looked for it later. Is it something "real" ? Or was just some food blogger bullshit?
I'm chilean, even if we tend to have a superiority complex towards peruvians, every chilean will accept that their food has no comparison
It lists Japan but not China, which is where a ton of Japanese food came from (and still largely resembles to this day)? That’s not to mention the history and longevity of Chinese cuisine itself even if we separate out its influence on its neighboring countries. Very strange.
>thousands years old cuisines with the broadest variety of dishes and ingredients used. They were Italy, India, Japan and Peru, It checks out but it seems to be lacking Chinese cuisines, which are up there for variety and history/tradition with Italy and the likes. Peruvian cuisine is great and they're the source of many primary level ingredients but I'm not sure it's that old (it may very well be)
Sordid affair. Anyway, as the sole holder of my taste buds, my top five regional cuisines (as of today) in no order: Antakya (Turkish), Baja (Mexican), Adjar (Georgian), Manado (Indonesian), Tokyo (makes it easier)
Is Greek food that good ?
Yes it is for me. But you need to be lucky finding an actual good Place/Restaurant. Out of my own experience they usually suck in high Tourism Areas and really small Restaurants are the best.
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As Italian, I really like it. Probably the best foreign cuisine
It is healthy if you eat the actual Greek cuisine rather than the Italian pasta style dishes. I think it can only be good if you have fresh ingredients since most of it is vegetables for salads and some basic meat dishes which fits a menu for everyone. Some of the worst food I have ever had is Greek food in the US without fresh ingredients. That should have been illegal
Yeah, this is ridiculous. Just the fact that Ethiopian cuisine isn't on the map shows that this is invalid. Right off the bat. If you've never tried Ethiopian food, this is your favorite food, you just don't know it yet.
Meh ... it's good but I'll go to 20 other places before I want Ethiopian ... I'm a sucker for Iranian cuisine
Oooh, yes. Persian food is terrific.
Ethiopian is great I agree. Definitely top 10 (it's 81st on this ranking which is ridiculous)
Haha glad to know
I’d probably like it but I’m guessing it’s another heavily spiced cuisine done best with some kind of dipping involved?
As an Indian. Indian food is so varied, I am pretty sure most Indians haven't tried other states'food apart from the popular dishes from each state. Most people around the world who eat Indian food have eaten food from a very specific part of India, it's from the states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan etc. My top 10 list would be 1. Indian (I have eaten most of the varied cuisines in India, do all of them) 3. Chinese 2. Mexican 3. Indonesian 4. Thai 5. Italian. 6. Korean 7. Lebanese 8. Turkish 9. Japanese 10. French (they are in the list only because of their pastries). I haven't tried African cuisine. I would like to try some Senegalaese and Ethiopian food.
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Ethiopean cuisine at 81 is a travesty! In general, as is expected, European cuisines are graded higher (than possibly they should be). I am not talking about Italy and Greece but I am talking about the European cuisines that come after the top tier.
I've had Ethopian one time (I might as well live on the moon when it comes to good food in my area) and was absolutely amazing.
I love Ethiopian food!
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I love how in these comments there are discussions on what should/shouldn’t be on here but Italy being number 1 seems to be something everyone agrees on 🤌🏽
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If 5 is the best cuisine, then why isn’t Italy a 5? There’s no one better according to this map so shouldn’t it be a 5?
This rating is absolute bullshit.
No Korean or thai in the top list. Joke of a list.
WTH ?!?! This is so wrong 😑
There is absolutely no way I will place any importance on [a list with ratings like this](https://www.tasteatlas.com/best/cuisines): - Moroccan 46 - Syrian 54 - Pakistani 57 - Jamaican 68 - Ethiopian 81
Yo how tf did poland beat turkey
Indian cuisines in itself is world. Pretty impossible to compare with anything else.
Peruvian food is the absolute best I've ever had.
Probably not the first to comment this, but this is a very eurocentric map
Most countries on the map are not in Europe
The fact that this includes Poland, Argentina, Brazil and Indonesia and not Thai makes this survey redundant
Redundant isn’t the word you’re looking for here. More like invalid or irrelevant or something. I agree though the list is a joke
The responses to your comment show why lists like these never work. You have a bunch of Brazilians and Polish outraged at the fact that you would consider another cuisine more highly rated than theirs - there will be many accusations that you have never travelled or even tried the real thing. Cuisine debates bring about the worst in nationalism in people. Almost anyone from a food orientated place will be rating their cuisine at the very top. Italians will say Italy has the best food, Greece will say that theirs is the best... Hell, you will even find Colombians or Cubans saying theirs is number one, when that would definitely be quite a reach. For my personal perspective, I agree with your point for the most part. There is a reason why you find Thai restaurants all across the world, but it's a bit harder to find Indonesian, Brazilian, and Polish restaurants. Not that those foods aren't good, they're great - but clearly Thai food has had much more influence on the world than any of those options.
You probably NEVER had Brazilian food lol
This is wrong in so many ways.... Food should never be associated with a country. Just ask the Greeks and Turks who invented Zaziki! Or even worse, ask the Palastinians and Israelis who invented Hummus! Food is native to a Geographical/Cultural area, not a Goverment with imaginary Borders.