re: Which city has the best food in all of America?

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Travel and Leisure Best Food Cities in U.S. Readers Poll

I used to wonder if people overstated how good the food in New Orleans is, but the more I visited other places, the more I realized why outsiders raved about New Orleans' food so much. There may be more variety in other places, but in New Orleans you can go to some place while you're on the go that looks like you could get mugged and shot if you don't get out of there quickly and end up feeling like you had a better meal (for 10 bucks) than you would have had if you were at some celebrated 5-star restaurant.

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I love NOLA food but it's not in the same league as NYC. Rating it and Charleston above NYC is a joke. And to think you can't walk into a random place in the city that feels sketchy and not get a great affordable meal probably means you just don't know it or haven't done it right.

There has to be a per-capita factor in there. I mean, there is no way you can visit every restaurant in New York.

New Orleans, for a smaller city is phenomenal.

Austin, Santa Fe, Charleston, Savannah, and Portland can't compete with NYC for total number of restaurants.

Portland has some phenomenal choices and even if I went out to eath 3-4 times a week, I'd never run out of new places to try. One of my favorite things about the Portland food scene is the food carts. Many great restaurants in Portland started out as food carts. Many chefs use the food carts as a way to get a brick and mortar restaurant.

I f'n LOVE WHEN ITS NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!!!!

Wrong

Houston

Best Mex, Asian, BBQ, seafood.

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What people? You and two other NOLA homers? NY is not only the food capital of this country, it's one of the three food capitals of the world (with Paris and Tokyo).

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My answer was always New York. The difference is you clearly have some sort of axe to grind when it comes to Nola food.

I love NOLA and think it does a wonderful job showcasing regional cuisine that simply isn't duplicated in any other corner of the world. Given its relative size, NOLA is quite impressive albeit a bit romanticized too.

What NOLA lacks is variety. This is where NYC, San Fran, Chicago, Miami (I know) and others outshine and surpass NOLA.

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Haha...I'm sorry, but the people have spoken.




What people? You and two other NOLA homers? NY is not only the food capital of this country, it's one of the three food capitals of the world (with Paris and Tokyo). 

You're delusional man. 

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First of all, I was being sarcastic based on the Travel and Leisure readers poll link I posted that had New Orleans at #1 for the best city for food in the U.S. for 2016 (you're too uptight to notice though). I already said it's subjective. However, I guarantee you there aren't a ton of yats reading Travel and Leisure Magazine (which is based in NYC btw) out of their millions of readers. You can take up their "delusional" issues with them. People like what they like.

Also, you mentioned NOLA people thinking that no place compares to New Orleans food-wise. Although New Orleans is obviously unique, there is a number of great cities for food. It just depends on what people like individually as to what may be their favorite.

I don't work in the service industry and can't take any credit that the food industry receives, so it doesn't really matter to me. I just enjoy the food a lot as a customer and I'm not going to deny that many outsiders claim that New Orleans is their favorite city for great food.