![]() ![]() Just look at how these lists are constructed:įor the most part, they include major cities that have, more or less, been good places to eat for quite a while. Without even looking at the mid-year lists from a dozen other publications, these catalogs encompass 26 US and 13 foreign destinations – how do we make sense of them in order to start planning our gluttonous vacations? Louisville also makes a strong showing on the Jetsetter top 10, coming in at No 2, just behind Stockholm and edging out Madrid (No 3) and Hanoi (No 9). At National Geographic Traveler, overseas culinary icons like Lyon (No 5), Osaka (No 7), and Bologna (No 8) rub shoulders with Buffalo, New York (No 3), and the top pick, Louisville, Kentucky. ![]() Over at the Washington Post, those cities include Charleston, South Carolina (No 10), Houston (No 5), and, at No 1, Portland, Oregon. We are at the beginning of a new year, and so any publication interested in food is decreeing a new slate of locales worth visiting just for the food. Except …Įxcept that Zagat’s is not the only list of Best Food Cities out there. For various reasons, I’ve never made it out to Pittsburgh myself, but thanks to Zagat’s picks, I’m eagerly anticipating a trip there in April. Well, the secret is out: Pittsburgh is officially a good place to eat, topping Zagat’s list of America’s 17 best food cities thanks not just to plentiful Sichuan dan-dan noodles but to “refined food glories” like “jamón croquetas with leek-ash aïoli”, “jerk pork and yam coulis”, and “rabbit accompanied by semolina gnocchi”.
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