New York

Crowded, competitive and challenging, New York City continues to be on the vanguard of restaurant culture. Perhaps because it is such a crucible, the city bursts with culinary creativity. The full spectrum of restaurants, from quenelle-and-caviar fine dining to biryani and bureks, Ethiopian sambusas and Korean baps, caters to New Yorkers’ ever evolving and endlessly restless tastes. Where once Manhattan was the Mecca of food, now the scene is multipolar, with each of the boroughs vying for primacy. In a city with over eight million hungry inhabitants, food culture is as entrenched in New York City as the subway system or the city grid.