City Guides
City taste test guides for twenty cities: six dishes each, and the notes that make the day worth filming.
About City Taste Test
Why City Taste Test exists
About City Taste Test: a free quiz that ranks 20 cities by taste, a guessing game of 10 rounds, a printable scorecard, 20 city guides and an optional planner for custom routes.
The format started on camera: taste the signature foods of one city and rate them honestly. The interesting part was never the score, it was the argument about what to include.
About City Taste Test guides and tools
The quiz compares your 10 answers with a published taste profile for each of the 20 cities, all on the same six axes: heat, sweet, sour, rich, fresh and adventure.
The guides are written from widely documented signature foods and describe dishes and kinds of places, never individual businesses. A planning route is generated per request from the same rules and never invents a restaurant, an address, an opening time or an exact price.
The quiz, the guessing game and the scorecard run inside your browser and keep nothing on our side. An account is only needed for a saved route or for credits you have bought.
What we do not publish
No invented restaurants, reviews, ratings or visitor counts, and no business named in a guide.
Where a dish's origin is genuinely contested, the guide says so instead of picking a side, and a correction goes in once it can be sourced.
Getting in touch
One address handles corrections, guide questions and billing, and it is on the contact page. It is answered by a person, usually within two working days.
The most useful correction names the page, the sentence and the source you are relying on. For a purchase question, include the email address you signed in with and the date of the order.
How to read a taste profile
Every city page and every quiz result uses the same six axes. Heat covers black pepper, mustard, horseradish and ginger as well as chili, and Sweet covers fruit, caramel and the natural sweetness of onions and shellfish.
Sour is vinegar, citrus, tamarind and anything fermented. Rich is fat, dairy, frying and long braises. Fresh is raw herbs, crunch and cold serving, and Adventure measures how far a dish sits from an ordinary weeknight meal.
The bars on a city page describe how that city's signature dishes score, not what every kitchen in the city cooks. Your ten answers are matched against the same profile, and the closeness is reported as a percentage band that stops short of certainty. A city high on heat and sour and low on rich points at grilled skewers and citrus rather than a long braise.
Help us keep it right
Food changes: a recipe gets simplified, a cut of meat becomes expensive, a dish moves from a stall to a sit-down room. If a guide no longer matches what a city eats, that is worth reporting, and it is the fastest kind of correction to make.
Missing cities are just as welcome. The ones added first are the cities with a clear set of signature dishes and a food culture people travel for.
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Planner
Tell us the city, the budget and how much time you have. Get a tasting route you can film or follow.
Guess the City
Ten rounds. One dish each. Four cities to choose from. How many can you place?
Questions people ask
Who makes City Taste Test?
A small publisher that writes food guides and builds small, fast tools. There is a contact page for anything you want to ask.
Is any of this sponsored?
No guide, quiz result or planning route is paid for by a restaurant, a brand or a tourism board. No business is named in the guides at all.
How often are the guides updated?
Whenever a dish description, a budget range or a time of day stops being accurate, and whenever a new city is added.
Do you use AI to write the guides?
The city guides are edited by hand from widely documented dishes. A generated planning route is labeled as generated and avoids the things that go wrong most often: business names, addresses, hours and exact prices.
Can I suggest a city?
Yes, and cities with a clear set of signature dishes are the ones that get added first.
Can I use these guides in my own video?
Yes. The dish list, the judging notes and the order of the stops give you the structure; a custom plan adds hooks, a shot list, a caption and hashtags for the city you name.