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    Melbourne is officially the best place on the planet for foodies, a new study has revealed.
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    Melbourne is officially the best place on the planet for foodies, a new study has revealed.

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    2. TheNumberOneRat on

      Hmmmm…. The study found that Melbourne has the highest ratio of international to local cuisine restaurants. Personally I don’t think that this is that informative, particularly in countries like Australia where the local cuisine is hard to define.

      It also found that Melbourne has almost three times as many Lebanese restaurants as Chinese – maybe I eat in the wrong areas – but this doesn’t sound right.

      The actual study: https://esim.holafly.com/inside/market-reports/worlds-most-diverse-food-cities/

    3. bigbagofbaldbabies on

      Melbourne seems to have the highest quality of food when variety is taken into account. Sure, the Japanese food is better is Japan; the Italian food is better in italy; but not a lot of other places have such a wide variety at such a high standard. Adding the great Vietnamese, Greek, Ethiopian, (etc) cuisines, the general standard is far greater then any other place I’ve travelled. NY and London are also multicultural melting pots, but the produce quality here is yonks ahead. I normally shit on articles like this, but I feel that most likely rings quite true.

    4. DisturbingRerolls on

      Not for long if we keep hiking up the rents. All of my favorite eateries are struggling to stay open.

    6. Mushie_Peas on

      My wife’s cousin is a Michelin star chef, he came here to visit his sister and was blown away by the place, moved here for a couple of years after visiting. Has since left but couldn’t believe the big standard cafe food compared to the rest of the world, we really are blessed with good produce and great cooks.

    9. rocketindividual on

      I am sceptical. Being a “foodie” is pretty much the norm in some countries like Italy, China and Spain.

    10. UslyfoxU on

      I have a regular place I eat in the city where the food and booze is cheap, comes out quick and is always amazing. Tonight at 8PM the line outside was bonkers. Took a walk down Russell Street and everywhere had epic lines. Turned down Lonsdale and took a punt on an Indonesian place that wasn’t too busy and the food was crazy good. You can wait in line for 30 minutes in this city or just walk for 10 minutes and stumble upon something amazing. We really have it good here.

    12. Scr0talGangr3n3 on

      Absolute bollocks.

      “analyzed Tripadvisor restaurant data” – not a good start. Have you looked at tripadvisor recently? It’s just SEO lists and answers to questions that were valid 15 years ago. No one should use tripadvisor for up to date information at all.

      And all the ratio of local to international cuisine restaurants tells you is that. It tells you nothing about the diversity of that international cuisine, how good it is, or whether the local cuisine exists at all (French cities are going to be low, Italian cities are going to be low, because they, famously, have fantastic local cuisine).