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The Food That Makes Your City Feel Like Home

The winners of our CityEats contest told us about the must-try restaurants and dishes for visitors and locals.
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We asked CityLab readers to tell us about what locals eat where they live and why, and you delivered. We got tons of mouthwatering odes to the spots that define the cities you live in. (The editors tore through lots of snacks while we read through your submissions—they made us hungry!)

The winning responses earned a gift card to a food delivery company that services their area. These gold-star entries, which we’re excerpting below, paint vivid pictures of delicious food. But they also do something more: They show us how, across the world, food is a point of connection between people and places.