Lonely Planet's Ultimate Eats

by Lonely Planet Food

Overview

The world's top 500 food experiences - ranked! We asked the planet's top chefs, food writers and our food-obsessed authors to name their favorite, most authentic gastronomic encounters. The result is a journey to Mozambique for piri-piri chicken, Japan for bullet train bento boxes, San Sebastian pintxos bars, and a further 497 of the most exciting eateries anywhere on Earth.

Ultimate Eats is the follow-up to our bestselling Ultimate Travel and is a must-own bucket list for foodies and those who love to travel. You'll discover the planet's most thrilling and famous culinary experiences, the culture behind each one, what makes them so special, and why the experience is so much more than what's in the plate, bowl or glass in front of you.

How many have you tried and what's your number one?

With contributions from Andrew Zimmern, Gail Simmons, José Andrés, Curtis Stone, Eric Ripert, Florence Fabricant, Ben Shewry, Dan Hunter, Monica Galetti, and many more.

Entries include:

• Laksa, Malaysia
• Grilled octopus, Greece
• Smorrebrod, Denmark
• Ceviche, Peru
• Po boy, USA
• Steak tartare, France
• Bibimbap, Korea
• Dim Sum, Hong Kong
• Reindeer Stew, Finland
• Jerked chicken, Jamaica
• Asado, Argentina
• Shakshuka, Israel
• Pho, Vietnam
• Wildfoods Festival, New Zealand
• The Fat Duck restaurant, UK
• Tokyo sushi counters, Japan
• Bistecca alla Fiorentina, Italy
• Adelaide Central Market, Australia
• Grilled fish, Seychelles
• Irish stew
• New York Reuben delis, USA

About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. Lonely Planet content can be found online, on mobile, video, and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787014220
Publisher:	Lonely Planet
Publication date:	08/21/2018
Series:	Lonely Planet Food Series
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 10.70(h) x 1.20(d)

Editorial Reviews

"The book celebrates street food alongside Michelin three-star restaurants... Its exuberance is pure; its sense of adventure is insatiable."—Foreword Reviews

"Lonely Planet Ultimate Eats provides the starting point for exploring cuisines of the world in more ways than one."—Donovan's Literary Services

"Can't schedule a Spanish barhopping trip to try these delicious snacks? Not a problem. You can choose from one of the top 500 experiences...Recommendations from world-renowned chefs José Andrés, Elena Arzak and Eric Ripert; television food star Andrew Zimmern; BBC MasterChef judge and chef Monica Galetti; and 15 more of the world's top chefs and food writers are also included. It's not about the perfect meal at a three-Michelin star restaurant: It's about how a dish tastes, its cultural significance and the importance of the location where it's made and eaten."—CNN.com

"Lonely Planet’s editors set out to compile the definitive foodie-travel bucket list...[Ultimate Eats] offers up the planet’s top food experiences, ranked from 1 to 500, with mouthwatering details on everything from ingredients to culture...It’s a book tailor-made for browsing, for appreciative mhmm-ing (New Orleans beignets? Oh heck yes!) and the occasional “Say what now?” as you run across something you hadn’t heard of before. Who knew scrunchions was even a word, let alone a dish? (It’s fried pork fat, served with fish in Newfoundland as caplin and scrunchions. We had to look it up.)"—Mercury News

"A guide to great food experiences, 500 to be exact."—Los Angeles Times

"So, you're thinking of letting your palate decide your next trip? Lonely Planet has a book to make the planning easier. Ultimate Eats provides a foodie to-do list in case you're not sure where to begin. Bon appetit."—Chicago Tribune

"The latest from Lonely Planet is Ultimate Eats, and NYC offerings show up nine times. That sounds like a perfect weekend project."—amNewYork

"Lonely Planet knows a thing or two (or three) about where to grab a great bite to eat. And luck for us, they've decided to share some of their know-how in their Ultimate Eats list, a compilation of the best dining experiences our world has to offer."—Food52

"[San Sebastian] has just landed the highest honor on Lonely Planet's list of the 500 best food experiences in the whole world...a gastronomical buck list for the ages."—Food & Wine

"A testament to that inextricable connection between food and place...a one-stop culinary travel guide."—The Epoch Times

"Travels the world with an insatiable appetite to present the definitive foodie bucket-list of the world's top 500 food experiences."—BookTrib

"Polishing off po'boys in NOLA, discovering dim sum in Hong Kong, trawling for tapas in Barcelona: This movable feast ranks—alongside mouthwatering photos—the globe’s 500 top food experiences. The world’s your oyster, so go slurp a few fresh ones in Tasmania, or just pull up an armchair and savor it all vicariously."—O, The Oprah Magazine

"10 Best Readers' Choice 2018 Best Gifts for Foodies"—USA Today

"This is a thoroughly indexed, 500 stop how-to on eating your way around the world—sipping fresh coconut on the beaches of Fiji; slurping down impossibly fresh anchovies in Spain. Gastronomy’s experts were tapped for the travel guide, and each and every page provides mouth-watering inspiration."—Book Riot

"If you've got a roving gourmet on your gift list, Lonely Planet's foodie bucket list offers 500 of the world's top taste experiences, from the Cronuts of New York to the smørrebrød in Copenhagen, the baozi of Shanghai and the rolex— the food, not the watch — of Uganda."—The Mercury News

From the Publisher

"The latest from Lonely Planet is Ultimate Eats, and NYC offerings show up nine times. That sounds like a perfect weekend project."

amNewYork

"Lonely Planet knows a thing or two (or three) about where to grab a great bite to eat. And luck for us, they've decided to share some of their know-how in their Ultimate Eats list, a compilation of the best dining experiences our world has to offer."

Food52

"[San Sebastian] has just landed the highest honor on Lonely Planet's list of the 500 best food experiences in the whole world...a gastronomical buck list for the ages."

Food & Wine

"A testament to that inextricable connection between food and place...a one-stop culinary travel guide."

The Epoch Times

"Travels the world with an insatiable appetite to present the definitive foodie bucket-list of the world's top 500 food experiences."

BookTrib

"Polishing off po'boys in NOLA, discovering dim sum in Hong Kong, trawling for tapas in Barcelona: This movable feast ranks—alongside mouthwatering photos—the globe’s 500 top food experiences. The world’s your oyster, so go slurp a few fresh ones in Tasmania, or just pull up an armchair and savor it all vicariously."

The Oprah Magazine O

"The book celebrates street food alongside Michelin three-star restaurants... Its exuberance is pure; its sense of adventure is insatiable."

Foreword Reviews

"Lonely Planet Ultimate Eats provides the starting point for exploring cuisines of the world in more ways than one."

Donovan's Literary Services

"Can't schedule a Spanish barhopping trip to try these delicious snacks? Not a problem. You can choose from one of the top 500 experiences...Recommendations from world-renowned chefs José Andrés, Elena Arzak and Eric Ripert; television food star Andrew Zimmern; BBC MasterChef judge and chef Monica Galetti; and 15 more of the world's top chefs and food writers are also included. It's not about the perfect meal at a three-Michelin star restaurant: It's about how a dish tastes, its cultural significance and the importance of the location where it's made and eaten."

CNN.com

"Lonely Planet’s editors set out to compile the definitive foodie-travel bucket list...[Ultimate Eats] offers up the planet’s top food experiences, ranked from 1 to 500, with mouthwatering details on everything from ingredients to culture...It’s a book tailor-made for browsing, for appreciative mhmm-ing (New Orleans beignets? Oh heck yes!) and the occasional “Say what now?” as you run across something you hadn’t heard of before. Who knew scrunchions was even a word, let alone a dish? (It’s fried pork fat, served with fish in Newfoundland as caplin and scrunchions. We had to look it up.)"

Mercury News

"This is a thoroughly indexed, 500 stop how-to on eating your way around the world—sipping fresh coconut on the beaches of Fiji; slurping down impossibly fresh anchovies in Spain. Gastronomy’s experts were tapped for the travel guide, and each and every page provides mouth-watering inspiration."

Book Riot

"If you've got a roving gourmet on your gift list, Lonely Planet's foodie bucket list offers 500 of the world's top taste experiences, from the Cronuts of New York to the smørrebrød in Copenhagen, the baozi of Shanghai and the rolex— the food, not the watch — of Uganda."

The Mercury News

"So, you're thinking of letting your palate decide your next trip? Lonely Planet has a book to make the planning easier. Ultimate Eats provides a foodie to-do list in case you're not sure where to begin. Bon appetit."

Chicago Tribune

"10 Best Readers' Choice 2018 Best Gifts for Foodies"

USA Today

"A guide to great food experiences, 500 to be exact."

|Los Angeles Times

"10 Best Readers' Choice 2018 Best Gifts for Foodies"

USA Today

"So, you're thinking of letting your palate decide your next trip? Lonely Planet has a book to make the planning easier. Ultimate Eats provides a foodie to-do list in case you're not sure where to begin. Bon appetit."

Chicago Tribune

"A guide to great food experiences, 500 to be exact."

Los Angeles Times