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Best cuisines in the world

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Italian Cuisine1485

The worldwide ranking generated by 1.2k votes

100 / 100

Italian Cuisine1485

French Cuisine1434

Japanese Cuisine1384

Thai Cuisine1374

Chinese Cuisine1374

American Cuisine1360

English Cuisine1351

New Zealand Cuisine1332

Pakistani Cuisine1329

#10

Moroccan Cuisine1324

#11

Turkish Cuisine1323

#12

Malaysian Cuisine1309

#13

Mexican Cuisine1305

#14

Lebanese Cuisine1296

#15

Vietnamese Cuisine1295

#16

Azerbaijani Cuisine1286

#17

Korean Cuisine1285

#18

Chilean Cuisine1285

#19

Peruvian Cuisine1278

#20

Scottish Cuisine1278

#21

Afghan Cuisine1275

#22

Syrian Cuisine1273

#23

Indonesian Cuisine1269

#24

Uzbek Cuisine1263

#25

Palestinian Cuisine1263

#26

Filipino Cuisine1263

#27

Brazilian Cuisine1256

#28

Ghanaian Cuisine1255

#29

Colombian Cuisine1249

#30

Tunisian Cuisine1245

#31

Portuguese Cuisine1238

#32

Ivorian Cuisine1230

#33

Iranian Cuisine1228

#34

Mauritian Cuisine1228

#35

Libyan Cuisine1228

#36

Spanish Cuisine1225

#37

Indian Cuisine1222

#38

Croatian Cuisine1217

#39

Algerian Cuisine1216

#40

Puerto Rican Cuisine1211

#41

Venezuelan Cuisine1207

#42

Sri Lankan Cuisine1205

#43

Canadian Cuisine1202

#44

Albanian Cuisine1200

#45

Nepalese Cuisine1198

#46

Breton Cuisine1196

#47

Réunionnais Cuisine1194

#48

Norwegian Cuisine1187

#49

Alsatian Cuisine1186

#50

Provençal Cuisine1184

#51

Barbadian Cuisine1183

#52

Belgian Cuisine1183

#53

Swiss Cuisine1181

#54

Finnish Cuisine1181

#55

Kyrgyz Cuisine1179

#56

Taiwanese Cuisine1179

#57

German Cuisine1177

#58

Jamaican Cuisine1176

#59

Egyptian Cuisine1175

#60

Cuban Cuisine1175

#61

Dominican Cuisine1174

#62

Cameroonian Cuisine1174

#63

Argentine Cuisine1165

#64

Irish Cuisine1157

#65

Swedish Cuisine1157

#66

Uruguayan Cuisine1157

#67

Burmese Cuisine1153

#68

Greek Cuisine1153

#69

Austrian Cuisine1152

#70

Bahamian Cuisine1149

#71

Armenian Cuisine1148

#72

Dutch Cuisine1145

#73

Malagasy Cuisine1140

#74

Australian Cuisine1138

#75

Danish Cuisine1137

#76

Tahitian Cuisine1134

#77

Georgian Cuisine1132

#78

Kazakh Cuisine1130

#79

Basque Cuisine1127

#80

Ecuadorian Cuisine1126

#81

Cypriot Cuisine1125

#82

Bengali Cuisine1114

#83

Macedonian Cuisine1113

#84

Polish Cuisine1103

#85

Trinidadian Cuisine1103

#86

Bolivian Cuisine1099

#87

Bulgarian Cuisine1092

#88

Fijian Cuisine1092

#89

Estonian Cuisine1092

#90

Israeli Cuisine1090

#91

Texan Cuisine1084

#92

Ukrainian Cuisine1074

#93

Romanian Cuisine1074

#94

Lithuanian Cuisine1063

#95

Haitian Cuisine1063

#96

Russian Cuisine1060

#97

Moldovan Cuisine1059

#98

Laotian Cuisine1050

#99

Samoan Cuisine1049

#100

Slovak Cuisine1018

What the community says

Rank the world's best cuisines. Discover and vote for your favorite national cuisines from 100 distinct culinary traditions.

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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