What is the best city on Earth to eat?

[edtost]

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I vote New York, but that can't be it as it's too obvious.

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[pokerjo22]

Paris, and this is the first time I'll use the cliche 'and it isn't even close!'

[wonderwes]

Houston, Tx
Actual Proof

The sheer number of resturants per population is huge.

[Boris]

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Ruth Reichl wouldn't know good food from an ashtray.

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haha. nice to to hear AF talkin some smack.

[EliteNinja]

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Vancouver BC.

We have everything from Chinese to Cajun. We have Vegetarian, Salad bars, steak houses - all first class.

Vegas doesn't even close.

The icing on the cake is - everything is good value in Vancouver.

Lawrence

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Don't forget All-You-Can-Eat sushi!!!!
Not even Japan has that!

[ToneLoc]

Paris. By a mile.

[nicky g]

It isn't true you can't eat well in London outside of expensive restaurants. Right in the heart of tourist land, that's sort of true (there are still a couple of decent cheap eats places - but far more terrible and overpriced ones) but there are many, many very good restaurants where you can easily get a good meal for less than £20 a head, with wine, mainly ethnic. If El D's comment about the number of different cultures making the city foodwise is correct, then London has to be up there. It has a bad rep amongst foreigners, especially American tourists largely because a. they go to the awful places around Leicester Square, Picadilly etc and aren't willing ot go the the parts of town that don't hold much interest for sightseers; b. it's working out very expensive for them for some time because of the weak dollar (it is expensive, but not horribly so), and c. it used to indeed be terrible for eating. I've lived here 8 years now and it was grim-ish at first. It's improved a lot and I've also got to know it a bit better, and I've found it to now be a really great city for eating out (indeed, one of it's very few saving graces).

Whoever said Brussels is a genius. Diversity of choice isn't great, although pretty good for its size, but the quality is almost always excellent (although again, it pays to avoid restaurants near the tourist hotspots). Brussels on a London or even Paris scale would be the Mecca of the food world.

[thatpfunk]

Doner Kabobs are the nuts. Never seen them in the US.

[nicky g]

Man, most of them are pretty awful - the preserve of many a dogmeat joke. Almost always go for the Kofte or Shish in a kebab shop if you somehow find yourself in one. Shawarma and Gyros places are generally much better (great Gyros in Brussels). But there is a lot of very good Middle Eastern food here.

[thatpfunk]

My fav doners were in Spain, only had one in London and was cooked a little differently... I liked the chicken ones that they just slice off the big spining thing of meat with some veggies and sauces... good stuff.