Forget “forgetting to eat”—for many, food is a major travel motivator. TasteAtlas, using nearly half a million ratings of over 15,000 dishes, has crowned Greece the home of the world’s best cuisine in 2024.
While Italy, with its iconic pizza, pasta, and desserts, might seem like the obvious choice, Greek cuisine, featuring dishes like moussaka, stifado, souvlaki, dolmades, gyros, tzatziki, and Greek salad, took the top spot. Mexico, home to the world’s most popular street food—tacos—came in third. Here are the top 30 cuisines according to TasteAtlas:
- Greek
- Italian
- Mexican
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Turkish
- Indonesian
- French
- Japanese
- Chinese
- Polish
- Indian
- American
- Peruvian
- Serbian
- Brazilian
- Croatian
- Colombian
- Vietnamese
- Hungarian
- Algerian
- Korean
- German
- Romanian
- Argentinian
- Lebanese
- Czech
- Thai
- Georgian
- Tunisian
