Questions, answered

We're building the list together with our visitors. Submit it and our editors will review it — most submissions are handled within a week.

Yes — vote as often as you like, but each pair you're shown can only be voted on once. Voting is rate-limited to keep the ranking fair.

No. Voting is anonymous. Your personal taste profile is kept in your own browser.

With the Elo rating system, the same one used in chess. Here's how it works.

The dish has played fewer than 20 matches, so its rating is still settling. Provisional ratings move faster than established ones.

Usually because the dish is already listed under another name, isn't tied to a specific place, or the description was too short to check. If you left an email address we'll tell you why.

Our editors, based on where a dish is from. We use well-known culinary regions — Sicily, Sichuan, Bavaria — rather than strict administrative borders.

Each tournament takes the eight best dishes in a category and pits them against each other in a knockout bracket. Fill in yours while it's live, then compare it with the community result.