Meanwhile, American cuisine placed 13th in the world (4.42), per TasteAtlas, which touted American lobster, Pacific smoked salmon and South Texas-style BBQ as the cream of the US culinary crop.

Meanwhile, American cuisine placed 13th in the world (4.42), per TasteAtlas, which touted American lobster, Pacific smoked salmon and South Texas-style BBQ as the cream of the US culinary crop.

Other data was used to count the number of restaurants by type of cuisine in the world’s 50 most visited cities. A new study says Italian cuisine is the most popular worldwide.