--- title: Every City's Favorite Food as Told by Instagram Hashtags description: Which cities around the world love which foods most? A project known as "The Food Capitals of Instagram" attempted to map it out canonical: https://time.com/3962215/city-favorite-food-instagram-hashtags/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-17T06:35:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:14.912Z og:title: Every City's Favorite Food, According to Instagram Hashtags og:description: New York loves sushi more than Tokyo, but London is the world's burger capital. og:url: https://time.com/3962215/city-favorite-food-instagram-hashtags/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Every City's Favorite Food, According to Instagram Hashtags twitter:description: New York loves sushi more than Tokyo, but London is the world's burger capital. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Is Every City's Favorite Food, as Told by Instagram Hashtags > Sponsored content. 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But photoworld.com decided to dig a little deeper and find out which cities like what kind of food, through an [interactive project](https://photoworld.com/instagram-food-capitals/) called “The Food Capitals of Instagram.” The project features a series of maps, taking 18 popular dishes from various countries to see — through hashtag numbers — which city shows them the most love. New York City loves bacon the most, contributing nearly 8% of all bacon photos on the social network.  Photoworld.com It also loves the quintessential Caribbean dish jerk chicken more than the Jamaican capital city of Kingston, and (along with three other cities) loves sushi more than anywhere in the Japanese delicacy’s country of origin. It also has more pizza lovers than Italy. There are other surprises, however, such as the fact that (based on Instagram at least) London is the burger capital of the world:  Photoworld.com As for macarons, the delectable French pastries that are a favorite dessert of many — they’re most popular in Thailand’s capital city Bangkok followed by South Korean capital Seoul (the two cities account for 15% of all tagged macaron photos):  Canada, however, can take heart from (or be offended by) the fact that its signature potato-based dish poutine remains very much its own:  Photoworld.com Check out the full interactive [here](https://photoworld.com/instagram-food-capitals/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3962215/city-favorite-food-instagram-hashtags/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3962215/city-favorite-food-instagram-hashtags/"},"headline":"This Is Every City's Favorite Food, as Told by Instagram Hashtags","datePublished":"2015-07-17T06:35:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:14.912Z","description":"New York loves sushi more than any city in Japan, but London is the burger capital of the world","url":"https://time.com/3962215/city-favorite-food-instagram-hashtags/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Bangkok","New York City","Canada","london","Bacon","Instagram","cities","burgers","Seoul"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3962215/city-favorite-food-instagram-hashtags/","name":"This Is Every City's Favorite Food, as Told by Instagram Hashtags"}}]}] ```