How the world eats
Seemor has analyzed around 450,000 restaurants in 71 countries, with another 2 million mapped. For each one we read the public reviews and the menu and record what it serves, what it costs, who it draws, and how it does on more than thirty measures of the experience.
Here we put that data to one question at a time and let you compare the cities you care about: 44 major cities so far, 229,358 restaurants.
Pick a question below and choose your cities there, or look up one city.
Where do the locals actually eat?
Question 1 · October 2026The most local places lean furthest into the home cuisine in 2 of 3 cities. Rome: Italian is 89% of local-leaning restaurants, 77% of mixed-appeal ones and 79% of tourist-leaning ones.
Rome
London
Tokyo
Which city has the most diverse food?
From the article · 38 citiesLondon needs 21 cuisines to cover 90% of its restaurants, Rome just 4: Rome is 81% Italian.
London
21 cuisines to 90%Toronto
20 cuisines to 90%Paris
14 cuisines to 90%Rome
4 cuisines to 90%Coming next
- Where is really good food cheap?Cities, and the neighborhoods inside them, where restaurants rated 8 or higher on food sit in the budget price bands.
- Where do you find the real thing?A few cuisines, and the cities outside their home country where Seemor reads the cooking as authentic.
- Which cuisines are the loudest?Noise level by cuisine, from how diners describe the room.
Get the next question before anyone else
Each question arrives with a post from Ryan Fuller. One email when it lands, with the chart and the link. Ask for a city while you are at it.
Every city, its own page
44 cities so far. Each page gathers every question answered for that city, with a link to its page in the Seemor app.
What you see are shares of restaurants that fall in a band of Seemor's readings, never individual scores or restaurant lists. Readings come from analysing public reviews and menus, so they describe how a place is talked about, not a visit. Each question uses the slice of the corpus it needs: these pages cover 44 major cities out of the 71 countries Seemor has analyzed. Full method in the article that introduced each question.