Paris takes the top spot in a new My Baggage study of 28 global cities. Use the interactive foodie finder to switch between restaurant quality, dietary choice, street food, fine dining, Michelin recognition, airport dining, and Instagram food buzz.
Paris leads for plant-based choice, street food density, fine dining, and Michelin-recognized restaurants per 10 square miles.
Zurich performs strongly for vegan-friendly and gluten-free restaurants, plus notable airport dining variety.
Amsterdam ranks highly across dietary choice, street food, and overall restaurant density.
Tap a travel style to instantly see which cities rank highest for that metric. It turns the dataset into a quick, fun shortlist for vegan weekends, street food crawls, fine dining trips, airport layovers, and more.
Choose a metric and the ranking will reshuffle around that traveler priority.
Click a city to zoom into its country and open a foodie travel card beside the map. Use the region filters, city picker, or surprise button to turn the ranking into a quick trip-planning game.
The ranking balances city dining density with airport restaurant variety and social food interest, making it useful for travelers planning food-led trips and long layovers.
Some cities win on overall depth, while others stand out for specific traveler needs, from vegan restaurants to airport food options.
Osaka leads with 223.68 Tripadvisor 5-star restaurants per 10 sq mi.
Paris tops the vegan-friendly metric with 392.00 venues per 10 sq mi.
Amsterdam ranks first with 90.31 gluten-free restaurants per 10 sq mi.
Paris leads with 37.90 street food establishments per 10 sq mi.
Paris edges out Osaka for fine dining density, with 84.86 per 10 sq mi.
Paris leads for Michelin-recognized restaurants, with Osaka second.
Nagoya ranks first for unique airport restaurants per 1M passengers.
London has the highest city food hashtag count, with 4.02M posts.
Zurich, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Osaka all score above 70, showing that the best foodie cities balance different strengths rather than winning every metric.
Paris ranks first in four metrics: vegan-friendly restaurants, street food establishments, fine dining restaurants, and Michelin-recognized restaurants per 10 square miles.
Search by city or airport, then compare the metrics behind each city's score. Restaurant counts are normalized per 10 square miles, except airport restaurant variety, which is normalized per 1M passengers.
| Rank | City | Foodie score | Top airport | 5-star restaurants | Vegan-friendly | Gluten-free | Street food | Fine dining | Michelin | Airport restaurants | Food hashtags |
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The study ranks cities with major global airports based on the strength and breadth of their food scenes, using city-level restaurant data, airport dining data, and Instagram food interest.
Each city was evaluated across eight metrics: Tripadvisor 5-star restaurants, vegan-friendly restaurants or restaurants with vegan options, gluten-free restaurants, street food establishments, fine dining restaurants, Michelin-recognized restaurants, unique restaurants at the top airport per 1M passengers, and city food hashtag posts.
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