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"Cuisine" categories are mainly based on the type of food and not on the kind of restaurant. Therefore if for example you eat sushi at a Chinese restaurant, it's better to select the "Japanese cuisine" category. However it's up to you to decide ;-), sometimes more than just one category fits your needs.
  • Aboriginal cuisine

    Cuisine from aboriginal (native, indigenous) people worldwide.

  • Greek cuisine
  • African cuisine

    Every kind of African dish, excluded the tipical Arab food (which can be found in its own category). Sub Saharan food

  • Arab cuisine

    Arab cuisine (Arabic: مطبخ عربي‎‎) is defined as the various regional cuisines spanning the Arab world. It's often centuries old and makes use of a great variety of spices, herbs, and foods.

  • Chinese cuisine

    The "Eight Culinary Cuisines" of the traditional Chinese cuisine are Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan, and Zhejiang.

  • Other ethnic cuisines

    Other ethnic cuisines and restaurant from other countries not included in other categories

  • French cuisine

    Typical French dishes

  • German cuisine

    Austrian, German, Swiss cuisine

  • Indian cuisine

    Indian cuisine reflects a 5,000-year history of various groups and cultures interacting with the subcontinent, leading to diversity of flavours and regional cuisines found in modern-day India.

  • Indonesian cuisine

    Indonesian cuisine is one of the most vibrant and colourful cuisines in the world, full of intense flavour. Many regional cuisines exist, often based upon indigenous culture and foreign influences.

  • Italian cuisine

    Italian cuisine is characterized by its simplicity, with many dishes having only four to eight ingredients. Italian cooks rely chiefly on the quality of the ingredients rather than on elaborate preparation. Ingredients and dishes vary by region. Many dishes that were once regional, however, have proliferated with variations throughout the country.

  • Japanese cuisine

    ramen, udon, tempura, sashimi, shabu shabu, sukiyaki, sushi, soba, tfu, kayu, yakitori...

  • Korean cuisine

    Korean cuisine is largely based on rice, vegetables, and meats. Traditional Korean meals are noted for the number of side dishes (반찬; banchan) that accompany steam-cooked short-grain rice. Kimchi is almost always served at every meal.

  • Malaysian cuisine

    Malaysia's culinary style in the present day is primarily a melange of traditions from its Malay, Chinese, Indian, Indonesian and ethnic Bornean citizens, with heavy to light influences from Thai, Portuguese, Dutch, and British cuisines, to name a few. This resulted in a symphony of flavours, making Malaysian cuisine highly complex and diverse.

  • Mexican cuisine

    Mexican cuisine is primarily a fusion of indigenous Mesoamerican cooking with European, especially Spanish. The staples are native foods, such as corn, beans, avocados, tomatoes, and chili peppers, along with rice, which was brought by the Spanish. Europeans introduced a large number of other foods, the most important of which were meats from domesticated animals (beef, pork, chicken, goat, and sheep), dairy products (especially cheese), and various herbs and spices.

  • Russian cuisine

    Pelmeni, Kholodets, Kotlety, Shashlyk, Pirozhki, Blini, Syrniki, Vatrushka, Varenye...

  • Thai cuisine

    Thai cooking places emphasis on lightly prepared dishes with strong aromatic components and a spicy edge. It is known for its complex interplay of at least three and up to four or five fundamental taste senses in each dish or the overall meal: sour, sweet, salty, bitter, and spicy.

  • American cuisine

    American cuisine is extremely diverse. While it incorporates styles of cooking that takes something from each immigrant community, American cooks have exported a great variety of dishes around the world. One important characteristic of American cooking is the fusion of multiple ethnic or regional approaches into completely new cooking styles.

  • Vietnamese cuisine

    Traditional Vietnamese cooking is greatly admired for its fresh ingredients, minimal use of dairy and oil, complementary textures, and reliance on herbs and vegetables. With the balance between fresh herbs and meats and a selective use of spices to reach a fine taste, Vietnamese food is considered one of the healthiest cuisines worldwide.

  • Wine bar

    Place where essentially wine is served: wineries, wine bars

  • Coffee

    coffee, coffeehouse, cafeteria, espresso bar, etc

  • Tea house

    Traditional tea houses

  • Bar

    generic bar

  • Pub / Brasserie

    Includes pubs, brasserie, breweries

  • Soup bar

    Soup bar, souperie, zupperia, different names but they all provide vegetable soup, meat soup, fish soup, cold soup as base. This category also includes take away soup!

  • Ice-cream

    Ice-cream shop or gelateria, is where you can buy and eat delicious ice-creams, crushed ice drinks and so on

  • Pizzeria

    Place where pizza represents the main dish, excluded fast food and take away. Basically a restaurant where you can seat and eat the pizza

  • Gluten free

    Restaurants and food where gluten isn't used. For gluten allergies and coeliac disease

  • Vegetarian & Vegan

    Vegetarian, vegan restaurants and food

  • Street food

    Any kind of food you can buy and eat on the fly along roads, squares, parks, included take away but not the classical fast food

  • Fast food

    Fast food chains & fast casual take away, where you can take away and eat hamburgers, chips, hot dogs, pizza, kebap (كباب), gyros, sausages, ethnic food, sandwiches, etc. Especially fried & fat!

  • Steakhouse

    steaks & meat. only for carnivores!

  • Dining clubs

    Exclusive places, sometimes unknown, mysterious, with restricted invitation, where known customers meet together to eat in a friendly and familiar environment. Such places are known as dining clubs, underground restaurants, supper clubs, closed door restaurant, speakeasy, but also when we talk about social eating and home restaurants.

  • BBQ

    barbecue - BBQ, where you can eat grilled food, especially, but not only, meat

  • Fish

    Fish, seafood, crustacean, mollusks...

  • Farmhouse

    Dishes offered in farmhouses, farm stays, ranches, B&B in a farm, "agriturismo".

  • Food festival

    Food festivals, Oktoberfest, public open air food events limited in time, which occur in a particular place and only in certain period during the year

  • Other

    everything which can't be included in the other categories