After receiving the honor of being the first nationally awarded as a UNESCO intangible heritage, Italian cuisine also appears at the top of the best recipes globally. Yes, because like every year, Taste Atlas has drawn up the ranking of the 100 best dishes in the world. 453,720 valid evaluations for 11,781 dishes present in its database, and Italy has monopolized the podium of the world capitals of gastronomy: going in order, Naples, Milan and Bologna occupy the first three positions. Let’s see together which ones were awarded as the best dishes ever.
The best dish in the world comes from Paraguay
In first position we find the vori-vori, which wins with a score of 4.7. It is a typical Paraguayan soup, composed of small balls of corn flour and cheese cooked in a chicken broth, vegetables and aromatic herbs. The origin of this recipe is particularly ancient, but even today vori-vori can be eaten in both rural and urban regions of the country, particularly in small restaurants. It is also typical of home menus, so much so that each family tends to make its own small addition or modification to personalize it. A concept quite similar to pasta in Italy, where everyone at home chooses the seasoning they prefer, and perhaps by opening the fridge and evaluating the ingredients, they also invent something imaginative.
Pizza couldn’t be missing
The rest of the podium is all Italian. In second place is one of the Italian dishes par excellence: pizza. Taste Atlas specifies «Neapolitan pizza», and recommends the best restaurants in which to eat it «artfully made»: Antica Pizzeria e Friggitoria Di Matteo, Gino e Toto Sorbillo, L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele. These are now very well-known institutions also at an international level, so much so that the last one was recently elected the Best artisanal pizzeria chain in the world in 2025. We remind you that theThe art of the Neapolitan pizza chef was also recognized in 2017 by UNESCO, which recognized the mastery of the Neapolitan pizza chefs in modeling two basic elements such as water and flour, among the characteristic raw materials of the Mediterranean diet (a heritage in turn).
The white truffle of Alba and the legacy of Slow Food
Finally, in third place, a renowned Piedmontese specialty such as tajarin with white Alba truffle. It is a handmade pasta seasoned with the precious freshly grated white truffle typical of Alba, butter, pepper, and a grating of Parmigiano Reggiano. Tajarin (or tagliolini) are found in the region that made Italy gastronomically great thanks to Slow Food. It was in Bra, just about twenty kilometers from Alba, that Slow Food was born in 1986, an organization that quickly took hold on a global level and which promotes not only national dishes, but the deepest Italian food culture: that of food linked to peasant tradition.
The other Italian dishes in the ranking
Not only the podium, Italy also closes the top 10, with pappardelle with wild boar (typical of the Grosseto area and then also spread to other areas of the Centre) ranking in tenth position. Among the national recipes, the list also includes Florentine steak, sliced beef, aubergine parmigiana, tagliatelle with meat sauce, risotto with porcini mushrooms, linguine with seafood, mixed fried fish. Perhaps a little surprisingly, carbonara is only 89th, followed in 90th place by lasagna Bolognese. However, the message remains that the quality of Italian cuisine, be it UNESCO or Taste Atlas or any other “gastronomic judge”, is one of the most appreciated in the world. We Italians were already convinced of this.
