Lima, Peru

Central is the #1 restaurant in the world as of 2023, but the ceviche from a carretilla cart in Surquillo Market costs $2 and hits just as hard. Lima's street food scene runs on anticuchos (beef heart skewers marinated in aji panca), picarones (sweet potato donuts with chancaca syrup), and ceviche so fresh the fish was swimming that morning. Peru has 89 microclimates producing ingredients that don't exist anywhere else on earth. No tasting menu captures that biodiversity like the streets do.