The best food city has to be the one with the most diversity of foods. If you want the best food of a certain cuisine, of course it would be hard to beat the c

The best food city has to be the one with the most diversity of foods. If you want the best food of a certain cuisine, of course it would be hard to beat the cuisine's homeland. But some cities are better than others in providing high-quality (but maybe not the absolute best) examples of international cuisines. Another factor is that, to me, the "best food city" is one that has excellent cheap food. This is also a factor proportional to the city's diversity. Some cities may have amazing high-end restaurants, but I'm not going to eat at a nice sit-down restaurant all the time (maybe even rarely). A city may have many Michelin stars, but when's the last time you considered a Michelin place for lunch? How many times would you go to one, maybe once a year, or less? Because of this, I would rate many American coastal cities as some of the best places for food because of the diversity.