What makes a great food city? It isnt its number of plaudits and Michelin stars, but something a bit more simple: options. Good-quality meals at reasonable prices.
Time Out leisure Magazine asked thousands of city-dwellers to tell them exactly how good and how affordable it is to eat out in their hometown right now.
To create and rank the final list, Time Out narrowed down the selection by including only the highest scoring city for each country .
The worlds top 10 foodie cities 1. NaplesMust-eat dish: pizza margherita You cant talk food in Italy without talking Naples and you cant talk food in Naples without talking pizza.
The pizza was born in Naples in the 19th century as a quick, affordable meal for the citys working classes, and old-school pizzerias (mostly centred around Via dei Tribunali, aka Pizza Street) continue to feed hungry Neapolitans.