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Top 10 cities for restaurants and dining

Seoul, Paris, Barcelona have the densest restaurant scenes: 6,198 restaurants within 3 km of the centre of Seoul. Counted on OpenStreetMap across 152 cities, one city per country.

Sorted by OpenStreetMap elements tagged as restaurants within 3 km of the city centre; one city per country. Counts what is mapped, so well-mapped regions lead; it says nothing about quality. 152 cities qualify; the ten best are shown. Dataset 2026.10.7. How the scores work.

  1. 1SeoulSouth Korea67
    Restaurants within 3 km
    6,198
    Score
    67
    Monthly cost
    $2,022
  2. 2ParisFrance68
    Restaurants within 3 km
    4,999
    Score
    67.9
    Monthly cost
    $2,953
  3. 3BarcelonaSpain73
    Restaurants within 3 km
    3,094
    Score
    72.8
    Monthly cost
    $2,694

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The full Top 10

#CityRestaurants within 3 kmScoreMonthly cost
1
67
Seoul
South Korea
6,19867$2,022
2
68
4,99967.9$2,953
3
73
3,09472.8$2,694
4
67
2,81967.4$1,719
5
74
2,74773.5$1,691
6
68
London
United Kingdom
2,19268.3$4,559
7
65
1,96764.6$3,927
8
74
1,90274$2,499
9
69
1,82768.5$2,305
10
69
1,64069.4$2,407

* country-level cost estimate. Lists ranked by overall score put cities with a city-level price first; country-wide estimates only fill a list with fewer than ten. Scores are 0–100 under balanced weights; open a city for every number and its source.

Frequently asked

Which digital nomad city has the most restaurants?
Seoul, with about 6,198 restaurants mapped within 3 km of its centre on OpenStreetMap, followed by Paris, Barcelona.
How is the restaurant count measured?
Each city's centre coordinate is queried on OpenStreetMap for everything tagged as a restaurant within a 3 km radius. It measures how many restaurants are mapped, which tracks real density closely in well-mapped regions and under-counts where mapping is thin. It does not rate quality, and it does not feed the balanced score.

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