The World's Best Food Metros

These are the cities where the professional record runs deepest. A metro's score is the total of its 20 best place scores divided by 20, so a city rises on the strength of a whole field rather than one famous address.

A city appears here once that record is deep enough to be worth reading, which takes both breadth and quality: at least 50 places in the food record, and a top 20 strong enough to carry the average past 50. The place scores behind all of it come from the awards each venue has won, and how we score sets out that arithmetic in full. Follow any name below for that metro's complete ranking.