The world’s top 10 food cities, including a Southern fave

Louisiana boiled crawfish Costa Rican gallo pinto on banana leaves and a French fry-stuffed sandwich from South Africa called a Gatsby these are several of the dishes praised in Time Out s contemporary list of the world s best food cities Related Articles At Cooks of Crocus Hill that old name is new again as Bellecour partnership ends Recipe Herbed Green Rice is a flavorful sidekick for your next barbecue Give salt-and-pepper pork chops a crunchy coating without the deep frying Burnsville Cub to celebrate revamped grocery store with fanfare The innovative ice-cream makers at Salt Straw serve up secrets and recipes in a new cookbook There s only one U S place on the list but that s by design Time Out surveyed its readers for The world s best cities for food right now on criteria like quality affordability and attributes such as family-friendly and experimental The editors then narrowed down the ranking in the interest of geographic diversity so that there s only one culinary capital per country Though this is kind of a self-selecting poll it s hard to quibble with New Orleans placement as America s food mecca Other spots might surprise folks who ve never been perhaps Abu Dhabi praised for its burrata pizza or Riyadh for its Japanese cuisine and Medell n chicharr n salad From street eats to fine dining family-run taverns to cutting-edge kitchens eating and drinking is the backbone of local heritage in our cities and the reason several of us choose to movement writes Time Out Without ado here are the first on the list of culinary capitals Time Out readers vote the world s best cities for food right now New Orleans Bangkok Medell n Cape Town Madrid Mexico City Lagos Shanghai Paris Jakarta Source timeout com expedition worlds-best-cities-for-food