Which city has the most diverse food?
It depends how you count. London has the widest spread of cuisines, Toronto the most even, and Rome is 81 percent Italian. This is the chart from the article with the cities swappable: swap in any of the 38, up to sixteen at a time. The full piece, with the hypotheses tested and what still has no explanation, is at Which city has the most diverse food: it depends how you count.
London needs 21 cuisines to cover 90% of its restaurants, Rome just 4: Rome is 81% Italian.
What this measures
Share of analyzed restaurants by cuisine, cities ordered by the number of cuisines needed to cover 90% of them. Home cuisine in navy, the next seven in blues, every other cuisine in gray. Tap a city name for its page.
London
21 cuisines to 90% · 17,505 restaurants · 60 cuisines in allToronto
20 cuisines to 90% · 4,010 restaurants · 55 cuisines in allMontreal
20 cuisines to 90% · 2,944 restaurants · 55 cuisines in allAmsterdam
19 cuisines to 90% · 2,708 restaurants · 49 cuisines in allNew York
17 cuisines to 90% · 14,032 restaurants · 58 cuisines in allSingapore
14 cuisines to 90% · 5,996 restaurants · 46 cuisines in allParis
14 cuisines to 90% · 13,020 restaurants · 58 cuisines in allHong Kong
13 cuisines to 90% · 2,602 restaurants · 46 cuisines in allLos Angeles
12 cuisines to 90% · 11,145 restaurants · 53 cuisines in allTokyo
7 cuisines to 90% · 10,493 restaurants · 53 cuisines in allMexico City
5 cuisines to 90% · 7,629 restaurants · 46 cuisines in allIstanbul
5 cuisines to 90% · 5,095 restaurants · 41 cuisines in allRome
4 cuisines to 90% · 5,932 restaurants · 46 cuisines in allGet the next question before anyone else
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Cities shown: 103,111 analyzed restaurants with a cuisine, data from October 2026. A pub counts as the cuisine it serves. “Cuisines to 90%” is how many cuisines, largest first, it takes to cover 90% of a city's restaurants; it ranks cities almost identically to the inverse Simpson index and is easier to explain. Full method, the other measures and the density and immigration charts are in the article.
The article measured 44 cities. This page keeps the 38 major ones and leaves out six smaller or regional cities from that list (Newcastle, Bristol, Glasgow, Birmingham, Atlanta, Bengaluru); the numbers for the rest are the article's own, unchanged.
The rest of the analysis
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