Best Foodie Destinations

[3star]

What are the cities, within America and international, with the best foodie destinations?

[lanersg]

Paris
San Francisco
New York
Rome
Mexico City

[Potomac Bob]

In order:
New Orleans
New York City
San Francisco
Chicago
Taipei
Hong Kong
Lyon
Asheville, North Carolina (enough for a cupla days)

[Sal Vanilla]

Restaurants or foraging for interesting finds in the markets? Each presents a chance for a new taste.

[dtud]

bangkok
paris
los angeles
new orleans
new york
san francisco

[greedygirl]

Too many!

London
Bangkok
Paris
Umbria (and Italy in general)
San Francisco
New Orleans
New York
Barcelona
HCMC (Saigon)
Hong Kong

[vvvindaloo]

hi greedygirl,
i'd love to hear about your experience with food in Umbria. i am planning to spend some time there (both work and pleasure) before the year is up.
thanks!

[vvvindaloo]

This is tough.

NYC
Rome
Palermo
Tokyo
NO
Lyon
SF/SJ
Beirut
Guanajuato

Honorable Mention:
Paris
Las Vegas
Montreal
Seattle
Barcelona

I still need to get to Mumbai, Delhi, Beijing and Hong Kong (among many other places), and when I do, I am sure they will move right onto the list!
Great US food cities I have never been to, and look forward to trying: Chicago, Miami, Kansas City, Memphis.

[pengcast]

The answer is undoubtedly Paris. The last time I went to Paris, I stayed in a small hotel in a residential neiighbourhood. On the way to the Metro (subway) each day I passed by little shops serving amazing bread, cheese, pate and pastries. There was a farmers' market 3 times a week too. Even without all the great dinners we had on the Left Bank, it was a remarkable ten days.

The prix fixe dinners (fixed menu dinner with 3 or 4 courses) were almost always amazing value and often the house wines were a bargain too. I have never eaten so well for so little on a holiday.

I loved San Francisco too. But its hard to beat fresh pain au chocolat with French press coffee along Seine.

[bulavinaka]

Singapore. The national pastimes are going out to eat and shopping, in that order. Singapore is a city-state populated by defacto chowhounds.

[always_eating]

For me:

NYC
San Francisco & Los Angeles (California in general)
Las Vegas
Chicago
Philadelphia
Toronto
Vancouver
Montreal
London
Paris
Lyon
San Sebastian
Tokyo (Japan in general)
Hong Kong
Beijing

[Sam Fujisaka]

Udon Thani
Puebla
Lahore
Savannakhet
Cuttack
Canh tho
Hainan Island
Mandalay
NYC
Fresno

[Sal Vanilla]

Fresno Sam? Love some of your other choices. Was intrigued by Hainan Island as a choice. Anything in particular there? Must have spent some real time in SEA to be giving a shout out to such an eclectic group. I love it!

[Sam Fujisaka]

Sal, my list is a bit of the best alternatives to the well known, oft-cited places.

The Central Valley of California drew immigrants from all over the globe to work in agriculture--Basque, Armenians, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Germans, Swedish, followed by Vietnamese, Lao, Thai, Khmer, Hmong, and Sikhs. All brought their foods and increasing food awareness to Fresno from the turn of the last century on. Obviously, there are Mexican, Guatemalans, Hondurenos, and so on... but I consider California to be originally Mexican.

Of course, in the almost 40 years since I left, the chains and fast foods have taken their toll--but not completely.

Hainan has had a lot of influences over time and is both SE Asian and fully Chinese--very, very good.

I lived in SE Asia and worked all over S and SE Asia and E Africa for 14 years. Have lived in S America for a total of about 20 years (before and after Asia).

[lgphil]

I will vote for:

NYC
Vancouver
Hong Kong
New Orleans (Not sure about post Katrina. Haven't been)
Paris

[tlegray]

New Orleans is what turned me into a foodie. So it's my best food city but it's no my only food city

[Lucia]

Best Food Cities of NA:
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/361397

[swsidejim]

For my tastes in no particular order:

Hong Kong
New York
San Francisco
Chicago
New Orleans
Mexico City