The team at AccorHotels have analysed 51,918 restaurants and 76 different cuisines across Europe’s capital cities. From this we’ve been able to get a view on which types of restaurant dominate in each city and also across Europe as a whole.
Click on our interactive bar chart below to find out how your top food fares.
Restaurant Density by City
Italy
Mediterranean
French
Spanish
Japanese
Greek
American
Chinese
Indian
Thia
Local Cuisine
Both Italy and France have the highest number of restaurants dedicated to their native cuisines, making up a total of 71.1% and 49.8% respectively. This national dominance is also reflected in their popularity across the other cities, with almost 1 in 5 (17.3%) restaurants across Europe serving Italian cuisine. Meanwhile, 1 in 10 (10.60%) restaurants are French.
At the other end of the scale, Amsterdam has the smallest proportion of restaurants dedicated to its native food, making up only 15.5% of the city’s total.
In terms of variety, Berlin comes out on top with 54 different cuisines to choose from, while London follows in a close 2nd with 50 different cuisines to feast on.
There are cities where their local cuisines don’t travel far beyond their borders; Portuguese restaurants are few and far between outside of Portugal where they make up 57.2% of Lisbon’s restaurants and averaging just 0.39% density across the other 19 cities.
Surprisingly, British cuisine is another that fails to travel across the continent, and despite the 2,889 British restaurants in London, only 1.8% of all restaurants in these 20 cities will serve traditional British grub.

