Food & Wine 2025 Global Tastemakers

Our annual awards celebrate the very best in culinary travel around the world.

Now in its third year, Food & Wine’s Global Tastemakers Awards is a best-of list with a mission to celebrate culture, cuisine, and culinary experiences that are rooted in a true sense of place, highlighting not just incredible food cities, but businesses that lean into the soul of a destination,

Whether you visit a city, hotel, bar, or restaurant on this list, book a cruise or a flight with one of the winners, or transit through one of the top-ranked airports, you can be confident that its culinary credentials were vetted by some of the best food and travel professionals in the world.

For the 2025 awards, Food & Wine polled over 400 chefs, travel experts, food and travel writers, and wine pros from across the globe for their top culinary travel experiences. We then turned the results over to our Global Advisory Board, who ranked the top nominees in each category.

We hope the result, a list of the 165 most delicious places to visit right now, sparks wanderlust and inspires you to start planning your next great culinary adventure.

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