Skip to Content

Top 10 Countries With The Best Food

Everyone loves eating great food.

We love talking about it, thinking about it, writing about it and, more importantly, doing it!

We know what we like and most of the time we know where to get our favourite versions from.

Top 10 Countries With The Best Food

Below are 10 countries with the best food the entire planet, and possibly the whole universe, has on offer (unless there is some sort of alien gumbo we’re all missing out on).

1. United States

Although a lot of the food America is famous for is not actually American, like pizza and fries, which originated in Italy and Belgium respectively, America has mastered most these foods.

Brich Restaurant is a great place to discover the best restaurants in your city.

They have also given us their very own traditional menu items like clam chowder and the ever-popular key lime pie.

Americans consume 31% more packaged food than fresh food annually but when they do cook from scratch, they sure know how to do it right!

2. Vietnam

Vietnamese cuisine involves the use of fish sauce, rice, fresh herbs and vegetables and, more often, fruit.

Their food items come wrapped in coconut or banana leaves sometimes which seals in the taste and freshness of the food.

This nation’s cooking involves a wide range of fragrant herbs including mint, lemongrass and basil.

Vietnamese food is influenced by the region it comes from so travel the country for best versions of all the dishes this relatively small country has on offer.

3. Greece

Food in Ancient Greece was very healthy; consisting of grains, vegetables, barley and fruit.

Greek cuisine today perfectly echoes the sentiment of days gone by, promoting a healthy lifestyle and a low intake of red meat.

Greeks are record holders when it comes to consuming olives – with a staggering 18kgs of olives consumed per capita every year!

4. Japan

Japanese people are meticulous in everything they do, including their cooking. Japanese culture and traditions feature strongly in everything they prepare and cook – like still using chopsticks to eat.

Top 10 Countries With The Best Food

They have been food trend-setters around the world, getting us all completely hooked on ramen, sushi, and takamori drunken wagyu  – and you’ve probably eaten most of these using chopsticks too!

5. France

French cuisine might instil fear into the hearts of most, and given their penchant for frog’s legs you would be forgiven in thinking there is little more to this countries diet than oddities.

You would be forgiven but you would also be terribly wrong.

With dishes like terrine, macarons and seafood bisque it comes as no surprise that some of the most frequently taught cuisines in culinary schools around the world have French origins.

6. Italy

Mamma Mia! Italy has given us some mind-blowing dishes over the years and, personally, I don’t know where I would be without pizza or pasta in my life.

In fact, Italian food shouldn’t be spoken about…ever, it should just be enjoyed!

You can thank Italy for your favourite calzone recipe. Italians have such a zest for life and they effortlessly imbue this sense of wonderment into every dish they prepare.

7. Pakistan

Pakistani dishes are loaded with colour and flavour.

They do not consume alcohol or pork so most of their dishes concentrate around chicken, beef, fish and vegetables and almost all of them contain chilli powder and ginger.

Brightly coloured dishes that pack a mighty punch of flavour, delish!

8. Mexico

No food offers a sensory overload quite like Mexican cuisine, the texture, smell and the taste combine wonderfully into a heavenly all-body gastronomical experience.

Top 10 Countries With The Best Food

Nachos, enchiladas and tortillas are just some of the dishes that make this country the absolute king of street food.

9. Spain

This country’s hedonistic approach to eating is enough to make us all jealous.

From the cocktails to the tapas to the seafood mains full of flavour, Spain has something for everyone – and the best part is you get to nap for 2 hours after lunch!

As the mother of an 8-month old, they had me at “nap”.

10. China

It doesn’t really matter what country you’re in, you will likely find a Chinese restaurant in every town.

There is a good reason for that, which is all summed up neatly in one little word – “dumpling”.

In all seriousness, Chinese cuisine is full of flavour but there are authentic Chinese restaurants as well as fake imposters.

The key way to tell them apart is to look inside, if it is filled with Chinese people you can go ahead and order – if it is filled with tourists then move along.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.