The Foodie's Guide to Travel in 2020

They're all around the world: cities that are famous for food. Traveling foodies talk of squid ink buns in Taiwan, grasshoppers in Mexico City and Chicago-style hot dogs. We've scoured the globe for the best foodie destinations of 2020, and we've found them on all continents.

Oregon's largest city is famous for roses and food trucks. Farm-to-table ethos is virtually a requirement for opening any dining establishment in this city, where the cuisine ranges from global curiosity to earthy localism, with a healthy dash of northwest seafood and nods to the region's frontier past. From donuts to vegan ramen, PDX has it all.

Taking full advantage of the ocean's bounty and British Columbia's nearby wine regions, Vancouver is the birthplace of the local food movement. Many restaurants proudly source their entire menus within a hundred miles of the city, just like the local authors of the book "The 100 Mile Diet." British Columbia is particularly wealthy in oysters, foraged mushrooms, salmon and fiddleheads.

The street food scene here is so big it's recognized by UNESCO. Chefs from across Mexico bring diverse culinary traditions to restaurants across the city, and there are culinary explorations to be had suitable for any budget. Think ceviche from the coasts, fried grasshoppers, stacked-high tortas and corn roasted on a stick, smothered with chile powder and cream.

Los Angeles isn't just about California cuisine; it's a plethora of foodie traditions, many borne out of the city's immigrant communities. Korean and Mexican influences are heavy here, but there's virtually no world cuisine that isn't represented-everything from juice cleanses to poke bowls, even the classic diner food of old Hollywood can be found in the City of Angels.

Tokyo is famous for expertly crafted, well, everything. Japan's food culture revolves around execution. Chefs and restaurant owners typically specialize in a specific type of food-ramen, yakitori, sushi-and then focus their entire careers on getting it utterly perfect. Fresh seaborne ingredients are of the utmost importance, which makes the city's fish market world famous.

Food is integral to French across the entire country, but nowhere does the culinary scene gel quite like it does in Paris. The city boasts 123 Michelin-starred restaurants, and a host of world-famous luxury food brands like Laduree and Fauchon, but the newly ascendant are restaurants and markets featuring the cuisines of the old French empire, from Morocco to Vietnam.

Whether Viennese-style coffee and apfelstrudel with a side of gruff service in one of the city's palatial coffee houses, bone-warming Fiaker Gulash or fork-tender schnitzel in an underground wine cellar, Austria's traditional cuisine reaches its zenith in the capital. Foodies will love the Naschmarkt (literally "nosh market"), where they can collect sample wares until fully sated.

New Zealand is a foodie country where lamb, fresh seafood and local wines are all headliners. In Wellington, however, the entire community fairly buzzes about food, and shows it. Immense care and knowledge is demonstrated in the city's food scene, where it seems everyone is a wine expert or knows the purveyor of their provisions personally.

Chile's vaunted wine is a big player here, but the real theme of the capital's up-and-coming food scene is a return to the region's native dishes after years spent turning out global cuisine. Underscored by Patagonian venison and lamb, earthy root vegetables and succulent berries and fresh Pacific seafood, the satisfying meals turned out in Santiago make for broad appeal.

The coastal region encompassing Genoa and Cinque Terre is a culinary heavy-hitter, laying claim to Italian favorites such as focaccia, minestrone, pesto, and ravioli (like much else in Italy, some of these claims are disputed). Visitors here will find sun-baked coasts yielding earthy herbs and briny seafood pulled in daily from the azure waters.

This tiny town near Cork has an outsize reputation for food. Long the host of an international gourmet festival, Kinsale is dotted with restaurants for visitors to try a multitude of cuisines from the country's top chefs, who turn out everything from Modern Irish to more cosmopolitan flavors, all underlined by the richness of the surrounding farms and sea.

It's more than just okra and grits. The Carolina low country's principal port is where foodies convene to taste the region's distinctive repertoire of southern classics from Carolina Barbecue to baked tomato pie plus modern European-influenced cuisine dished out with Southern graciousness.

Singapore is a small nation with a food obsession. The country is famous for dishes drawn from the multicultural heritage of its people, blending Indonesian, Malaysian, Indian and Chinese cuisines into a brilliant sensory overload for foodie visitors. Must-try dishes include Hainanese Chicken Rice, Nasi Lemak, Singapore-style noodles, chili crab and satay.

Hamburg's local cuisine mirrors the city's geographic position between Germany and the Nordic states, drawing inspiration from both. There's plenty of this to be found in the city center, but foodie travelers will also discover poke restaurants and coffee brewers. The nightlife district of St. Pauli is the place for globalists in search of everything from ramen to ceviche.

Scotland is a procurer's paradise, with good foraged produce, venison, salmon, Orkney scallops and lamb staking claim to menus. In Edinburgh, these ingredients show up in all manner of establishment from Michelin-starred gastronomic temples to eclectic international restaurants to humble takeaway shops.

There's local South African cuisine here in abundance, but the city's food scene has long been flavored by its position as a transportation crossroads, drawing in flavors from both east and west. Street markets are popular and vendors have gotten inventive (angelfish pie, anyone?), but few things beat the novelty of tucking into an ostrich steak.

Taipei is known for its night markets and street food, and visitors can try dishes like tea eggs (also called marble eggs), buns blacked by squid ink or soup dumplings, which homegrown restaurant chain Din Tai Fung almost single-handedly turned into a global phenomenon.

New Orleans has long been a draw for foodie travelers seeking distinctive Louisiana Creole and Cajun flavors that have spread across the globe as the region's ambassadors. New Orleans, however, is a city of inventive modern restaurants, most of them outside the touristy French Quarter. Head to Peche for succulent shrimp toast or Cochon for smoked ribs with pickled watermelon.

The Cayman Islands might not be the first entry on many foodie lists, but the island's Caribbean food sensibility and a surging interest in farm-to-table and fishhook-to-fork is spurring exciting flavors and earning the country a reputation for food. There's a particular effort to grow more produce on-island, and it's being deployed in sophisticated dishes for a global clientele.

Chicago's staples are legendary-it's the city of loaded hot dogs, deep-dish pizza, dipped Italian beef and new American celebrity chefs. Visitors can enjoy everything from the city's annual Taste of Chicago food festival to gastronomic temples like Alinea, where diners must pre-book entire tables for 10-16 course tasting menus.