Popular Cuisines
Guides to the dishes worth travelling for, and where each one is done properly.
Cuisine is the most useful lens for planning a trip around food, because a dish tells you where to go in a way a city name does not.
Some foods belong to one place and nowhere else — the Hot Brown to Louisville, the donair to Halifax, the Sonoran hot dog to Tucson. Others exist everywhere and are only good in a handful of them, which is a harder problem and the more interesting one.
These guides work through both. Each covers what the dish actually is, how the regional versions differ, and which cities are worth the trip for it.
Where to find the ice cream, frozen custard and gelato worth going out of your way for.
Regional desserts and the cities that do them better than anywhere else.
Regional burger styles and where each one is done properly.
A guide to regional taco styles and where in North America each one is done properly.
Cities and cuisines where eating vegetarian is the default rather than a substitution.
Eating gluten-free while travelling, and the cuisines that make it straightforward.
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