The Big Apple is the No. 1 food destination in the US, according to a perplexing\u00a0new survey from SIXT, a premium car-service provider based in Germany.<\/p>\n
But\u00a0New York City ranked a middling No. 7 in the world, behind Tokyo, Paris, Osaka, Porto, London and Seoul. Can we really be\u00a0a lesser food town than Porto? <\/p>\n
The Portuguese city has one-fifth our population and is best known for its Francesinha sandwich of sausage, ham, and melted cheese in spicy tomato-and-beer sauce?<\/p>\n
Exciting restaurants like Kabawa, from chef Paul Carmichael, make NYC one of the most exciting food cities in the world. Brian Zak\/NY Post<\/p>\n
It seems everybody wants to rank world restaurant cities using different metrics.\u00a0SIXT\u2019s rankings are based on a dubious combination that includes \u201ctourist interest\u201d searches on sites including TikTok and Expedia, the number of restaurants on the \u201cWorld\u2019s 50 Best\u201d lists, and the number of places listed in the Michelin Guide.<\/p>\n
By that measure, New York earned a combined score of 44.36, way ahead of San Francisco and Los Angeles with just under 21 each but trailing Tokyo\u2019s 53.73.<\/p>\n
Bafflingly, new rankings place Porto, Portugal, above NYC as a food destination. Hans Lucas\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
But leave quibbles about their methodology aside. Gotham\u2019s restaurants don\u2019t\u00a0need anyone\u2019s survey, legitimate or not, to appreciate our unprecedented wealth of cuisines, styles and kitchen talent.<\/p>\n
The Big Apple\u2019s\u00a0culinary cred transcends our impressive array of places with three Michelin stars, a pantheon that includes Le Bernardin, Per Se, Eleven Madison Park, Jungsik and Sushi Sho.<\/p>\n
We have no less than eight separate Chinatowns; Italian landmarks such as Marea and Il Gattopardo in Manhattan, Gargiulio\u2019s in Brooklyn and Roberto\u2019s in the Bronx; and an abundance of places for Korean, Mexican, Japanese, Colombian, Greek, Puerto Rican and Lebanese dishes. <\/p>\n
NYC has several three-Michelin-star restaurants, including the great Le Bernardin. Aldo Sohm is the sommelier at the famed seafood spot. Stephen Yang for the New York Post<\/p>\n
We\u2019re blessed with Nigerian-inspired Tatiana at Lincoln Center and Caribbean-themed Kabawa downtown. We have a growing Israeli contingent includes Dagon, Shmone and the stunning new D\u2019oresh. Queens has some 200 languages and nearly as many cuisines.<\/p>\n
The recently opened Or\u2019esh is part of the city\u2019s growing Israeli food scene. Courtesy of Or’esh<\/p>\n
Gothamites miffed over SIXT ranking us a mere No. 7 worldwide cant take comfort in the fact that the survey declared the Big Apple \u201cbest for vegan food in the country\u201d and second in the world behind London, according to the survey.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite Los Angeles paving the way in mindful and sustainable eating, New York has beaten the West Coast city out of the park with a score of 79.27 out of 100,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n
Too bad they didn\u2019t rank our steakhouses instead, where seats outnumber those at all-vegan joints by approximately fifty to one.<\/p>\n
Tatiana at Lincoln Center serves remarkable Nigerian-influenced fare. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n
SIXT gets at least one thing right. \u201cPeople are traveling for food more than ever,\u201d the survey says, citing such treats as Dubai\u2019s \u201cpistachio fuelled chocolate craze\u201d to \u201cCrumbl Cookies drawing in crowds across America.\u201d<\/p>\n
But I\u2019ll sooner trust them with \u00a0ground transportation than with any semblance of gastronomic guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Big Apple is the No. 1 food destination in the US, according to a perplexing\u00a0new survey from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34876,289,2931,232,9,56,63,65,64,68374,821],"class_list":["post-166700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-casual-dining","tag-food-drink","tag-italian-food","tag-lifestyle","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-per-se","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}