Best Foodie Cities In North Carolina: WalletHub’s 2019 List

NORTH CAROLINA — If you love food and consider yourself a foodie, North Carolina might not be the place for you, according to a new report by WalletHub. The personal finance website ranked six North Carolina cities, none of which were considered near the top 25 foodie destinations in the country.

The Best Foodie Cities in America list for 2019 compared more than 180 of the largest U.S. cities across 30 key metrics of foodie-friendliness, ranging from restaurants per capita, to the number of local cooking schools, to the presence of Michelin-Starred restaurants.

Each relevant metric was listed with its corresponding weight, and the cities were subsequently graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing maximum food-friendliness.

Raleigh finished as the top ranked foodie city in our state, and was No. 46 on the overall list. Also on the list were Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Fayetteville.

Portland, Oregon, ranked as the best foodie city in the country, according to WalletHub, followed by New York and Miami. San Francisco finished fourth and Los Angeles landed at fifth.

For people on the quest for foodie-friendliness, Pearl City, Hawaii, isn’t the place for you. The city finished dead-last in the rankings, with Juneau, Arkansas and Jackson, Mississippi rounding out the bottom three.

Here’s how cities in North Carolina ranked, from best to worst, according to WalletHub:

• No. 46 — Raleigh
• No. 69 — Charlotte
• No. 120 — Durham
• No. 132 — Greensboro
• No. 154 — Winston-Salem
• No. 161 — Fayetteville