Key:cuisine

cuisine
Description
For describing the type of food served at an eating place.
Group: Food and beverages
Used on these elements
Documented values: 48
Useful combination
amenity=cafe amenity=fast_food amenity=restaurant diet=*
See also
drink=* origin=*
Status: de facto
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For describing the type of food served at an eating place.

May also apply to other services that deliver food, like convenience (shop=convenience).

See taginfo for the most commonly used values.

If a venue serves many different types, then use the semi-colon value separator to separate them, e.g. cuisine=chinese;japanese. Order them based on the order listed on signage, or subjective sense of importance, falling back to alphabetical if neither of the previous apply.

Suggested values

Cuisine (type of food)

Cuisine, categorized by type of food.

Key	Value	Description	Photo
cuisine	barbecue	A place that mainly sells barbecue, which is a style of cooking normally meats by roasting, smoking or grilling.
cuisine	beef_bowl	A place that mainly sells beef bowls.
cuisine	burger	A place that mainly sells burgers. Examples of restaurants include McDonald's (international), Wendy's (United States), and Jollibee (Philippines).
cuisine	casserole	A place that mainly sells casseroles.
cuisine	chicken	A place that mainly sells chicken. Examples of restaurants include Raising Cane's, Popeyes, and KFC.
cuisine	couscous	A place that mainly sells couscous, which is a north African savory wheat dish ( Couscous)
cuisine	curry	A place that mainly sells curry. Note that there are several different styles of curries, not only Indian style.
cuisine	dumplings	A place that mainly sells dumplings.
cuisine	empanada	A place that mainly sells empanadas, which are a savory (or rarely sweet) fried or baked meat pouch originating from Latin America.
cuisine	escalope	A place that mainly sells escalopes, which are thin slice of meat with no bones in it. These items are often covered with breadcrumbs and fried. ( Escalope) ( Wiener_schnitzel)
cuisine	fish	A place that mainly sells fish. See also cuisine=seafood for a more general category of seafood.
cuisine	fish_and_chips	A place that mainly sells fish and chips. These places are common in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
cuisine	fried_food	A place that mainly sells fried food, which is often takeaway. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	friture	A Dutch and Belgian chip shop (fish_and_chips but usually without fish). Also known as friterie and frietkot ( Friterie)
cuisine	gyros	A place that mainly sells gyros, which is a dish made from meat cooked on a vertical turnspit. ( Gyro_(food))
cuisine	hot_dog	A place that mainly sells hot dogs. ( Hot dog)
cuisine	hot_pot	A place that mainly serves hot_pot . ( Hot pot)
cuisine	juice	A place that mainly sells juice, which includes smoothies and juice bars. Examples of restaurants include Jamba Juice and Orange Julius. ( Smoothie)
cuisine	kebab	A place that mainly sells kebabs. ( Kebab)
cuisine	kolache	A place that mainly sells colaches. ( Kolache)
cuisine	noodle	A place that mainly sells noodles. Examples include Japanese, Chinese, Korean noodles such Japanese udon, soba, and ramen; Chinese dandan noodles and tan men; Korean renmyon and bibin myon; and Vietnamese phở and bún. Common throughout East Asia and increasingly worldwide. Use more specific tags if available.
cuisine	pasta	A place that mainly sells italian pasta. An example of this is spaghetti.
cuisine	pizza	A place that mainly sells pizza. Examples of restaurants include Pizza Hut, Dominos, and Papa John's. Use oven=wood_fired in conjunction if it applies.
cuisine	ramen	A place that mainly sells ramen. ( Ramen).
cuisine	sandwich	A place that mainly sells sandwiches. Examples of restaurants include Subway, Jersey Mikes, and Quiznos.
cuisine	sausage	A place that mainly sells grilled sausages, which are common in Sweden.
cuisine	seafood	A place that mainly sells seafood. Examples include fish, shrimp, and lobster.
cuisine	snackbar	Please use specific tags instead! ( Snack_bar)
cuisine	snacks	Please use specific tags instead! ( Snack)
cuisine	soba	A place that mainly sells soba, which is a Japanese noodle dish made out of buckwheat noodles.
cuisine	soup	A place that mainly sells soup. An example of this is stew.
cuisine	steak_house	A place that mainly sells steak. Examples of restaurants include Ruth Chris and Outback.
cuisine	sub	A place that mainly sells baguetterie. It is recommended to use cuisine=sandwich instead.
cuisine	sushi	A place that mainly sells sushi, which is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice combined with other ingredients, such as raw fish or other seafood.
cuisine	tapas	A place that mainly sells tapas. ( Tapas)
cuisine	vegan	Deprecated. Use diet:vegan=* instead. When replacing this tag, diet:vegan=only may be more appropriate than diet:vegan=yes for an exclusively vegan place. See Key:diet for details.( Veganism)
cuisine	vegetarian	Deprecated. Use diet:vegetarian=* instead. When replacing this tag, diet:vegetarian=only may be more appropriate than diet:vegetarian=yes for an exclusively vegetarian place. See Key:diet for details.( Vegetarianism)
cuisine	wings	A place that mainly sells chicken wings. An example of a restaurant is WingStreet.
cuisine	user-defined	All commonly used values according to Taginfo

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Cuisine (type of dessert)

Cuisine, categorized by type of dessert or appetizer.

Key	Value	Comment	Photo
cuisine	bagel	A dense bread baked in a donut shape; sometimes sliced and used for a sandwich ( Bagel).
cuisine	biscuit	Biscuit (also crisp cookies) is a term used for a variety of primarily flour-based baked food products. In the Commonwealth of Nations and Europe, it is typically hard, flat and unleavened. ( Biscuit)
cuisine	bougatsa	Common in Greece. Phyllo dough bread with spinach, cheese or custard cream, similar to a strudel.
cuisine	bubble_tea	Tea or milk tea containing tapioca balls or jellies; also called pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, or boba tea.
cuisine	cake	Most of the time a small cafe where you can buy and eat cakes (main business cakes not coffee, see cuisine=coffee_shop).
cuisine	chimney_cake	Kürtőskalács (literally a cake of the form of a chimney/funnel/flue/duct/vent, also called the Hungarian Kalách, Szekler Kalách or Schornsteinkuchen). Being a local specialty, not many Hungarians know an English name for this meal, so expect local mappers to use cuisine=kurtoskalacs, cuisine=kürtőskalács and cuisine=kürtöskalács (sic) interchangeably. ( Kürtőskalács)
cuisine	chocolate	Chocolate based drinks (hot chocolate, iced chocolate) and/or chocolate desserts (fondue, chocolate cake, chocolate waffles, chocolate desserts)
cuisine	churro	A fried-dough pastry usually eaten at breakfast or afternoon snack together with a cup of hot chocolate or coffee with milk. Common in Spain, Portugal, France, Latin America, the Philippines, Belgium and some areas of the United States.
cuisine	coffee_shop	Serves mainly coffee, may have some light cold snacks such as cakes.
cuisine	cookie	A cookie is a baked or cooked food that is small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar and some type of oil or fat. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nuts, etc.
cuisine	crepe	Crêpes ( Crêpe), Pannekoekenrestaurant in Dutch.
cuisine	dessert	Serves mainly desserts (food, typically sweet, served after the main course); use more specific tags, such as cuisine=cake or cuisine=donut if applicable
cuisine	donut	A type of fried dough confectionery or dessert food.
cuisine	frozen_yogurt	Frozen yogurt (also spelled frozen yoghurt, frogurt or Froyo) is a frozen dessert made with yogurt and sometimes other dairy products. ( Frozen_yogurt)
cuisine	gingerbread	Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg or cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar or molasses. ( Gingerbread)
cuisine	ice_cream	For ice cream parlours or other outlets. Note: some mappers use this instead of, or as well as, the amenity=ice_cream or shop=ice_cream tags.
cuisine	langos	Lángos (lalanga in Turkish) is a Hungarian food specialty, a deep fried dough. It is eaten fresh and warm, topped with sour cream and grated cheese, or Liptauer, ham, or sausages. ( Lángos) The Navajo had also reinvented this dish and called it  Frybread, hence some foreigners call lángos the "Hungarian fried bread", although most Hungarians would not know what kind of food that refers to.
cuisine	pancake	Pancake, possibly redundant with cuisine=crepe
cuisine	pastry	Please use a more specific tag. ( Pastry)
cuisine	petit_four	A petit four (also known as mignardises) is a small bite-sized confectionery or savoury appetizer. ( Petit_four)
cuisine	pie	Pies, common in Australia.
cuisine	pogacha	Pogača (Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian) or pogacha (Hungarian: pogácsa, Greek: μπουγάτσα, Macedonian and Bulgarian: погача, Turkish: poğaça, Albanian: pogaçe) is a type of bread baked in the ashes of the fireplace, and later on in the oven, similar to focaccia.( Pogača)
cuisine	poppy_seed_roll	The poppy seed roll is a pastry consisting of a roll of sweet yeast bread with a dense, rich, bittersweet filling of poppy seed. An alternative filling is a paste of minced walnuts, or minced chestnuts. It is also called in various languages as Mohnkuchen, Mohnstriezel, makovnjača, makový závin, wienerbrød, Vienna bread, mákos bejgli, makówc, magonmaizite, aguonų vyniotinis, makowiec, rulet s makom, makovník, cozonac cu mac, cozonac cu nucă, pyrih z makom, makivnyk and mohn roll. ( Poppy_seed_roll)
cuisine	profiterole	A profiterole is a filled French choux pastry ball with a typically sweet and moist filling of whipped cream, custard, pastry cream, ice cream, or sour cream. ( Profiterole)
cuisine	savory_pancakes	Japanese pancake, okonomiyaki, monjayaki and similar style.
cuisine	strudel	A strudel (rétes in Hungarian, zavitek in Slovenian, savijača in Croatian) is a type of layered pastry with a filling that is usually sweet. ( Strudel)
cuisine	teahouse	Usually tea with a light meal that can by accompanied various items, including tea sandwiches, clotted cream, cakes, scones, pancakes, crumpets and bread, butter and jam. Occasionally there will be cold cuts of meat, such as ham salad. ( Teahouse)
cuisine	waffle	A waffle is a dish made from leavened batter or dough that is cooked between two plates that are patterned to give a characteristic size, shape and surface impression. ( Waffle)
cuisine	user defined	All commonly used values according to Taginfo

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Cuisine (ethnic, national, cultural, regional, etc.)

Cuisine, categorized by specific ethnic, national, cultural, regional, etc. culinary traditions.

Key	Value	Comment	Photo
cuisine	afghan	A place that mainly sells Afghan cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	african	A place that mainly sells African cuisine, which is one of the many styles from the continent of Africa. Use more specific tags if possible. Source: (1) (2)
cuisine	american	A place that mainly sells American cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible such as cuisine=hawaiian, cuisine=new_mexican, cuisine=texan, or cuisine=tex-mex.
cuisine	arab	A place that mainly sells Arab cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	argentinian	A place that mainly sells Argentinian cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	asian	A place that mainly sells Asian cuisine, which is one of the many styles from the continent of Asia. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	australian	A place that mainly sells Aussie cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	baiana	A place that mainly sells baiana cuisine, which comes from the Brazilian region Baiana. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	balkan	A place that mainly sells Balkan cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	basque	A place that mainly sells basque cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	bavarian	A place that mainly sells Bavarian cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	belarusian	A place that mainly sells Belarusian cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	bolivian	A place that mainly sells Bolivian cuisine, which is a varied and stems from the combination of Spanish cuisine with indigenous ingredients. Use more specific tags if possible. (Bolivian food)
cuisine	brazilian	A place that mainly sells Brazilian cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible, such as cuisine=gaucho or cuisine=mineira.
cuisine	cantonese	A place that mainly sells Cantonese cuisine, which comes from Canton(Guangzhou), Guangdong province of China. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	capixaba	A place that mainly sells Capixaba cuisine, which comes from the Brazilian region of Espírito Santo.
cuisine	caribbean	A place that mainly sells Caribbean cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	chinese	A place that sells Chinese cuisine (any/unspecified region). May include Chinese-Indonesian restaurants (common in the Netherlands). Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	croatian	A place that mainly sells Croatian cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	czech	A place that mainly sells Czech cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	danish	A place that mainly sells Danish cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	filipino	A place that mainly sells filipino cuisine, which comes from the Republic of the Philippines.
cuisine	french	A place that mainly sells french cuisine, which comes from the country of France.
cuisine	gaucho	A place that mainly sells gaucho cuisine, which comes from the Brazilian region Rio Grande do Sul.
cuisine	georgian	A place that mainly sells georgian cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	german	A place that mainly sells German cuisine, which comes from the Federal Republic of Germany. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	greek	A place that mainly sells Greek cuisine. which comes from the Hellenic Republic (Greece). Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	hawaiian	A place that mainly sells Hawaiian cuisine, which comes from the island chain of Hawaii in the United States. This cuisine includes both the traditional indigenous cuisine and newer interpretations. Source: (1) (2)
cuisine	heuriger	A place that mainly sells Heuriger cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	hunan	A place that mainly sells Hunan cuisine, which comes from the People's Republic of China. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	hungarian	A place that mainly sells Hungarian cuisine, which comes from the country of Hungary. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	indian	A place that mainly sells Indian cuisine, which comes from the Republic of India. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	indonesian	A place that mainly sells Indonesian cuisine, which comes from the Republic of Indonesia. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	international	A place that mainly sells international cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	iranian	A place that mainly sells Iranian cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	italian	A place that mainly sells Italian food, which comes from the Italian Republic. Examples of food include pasta and pizza. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	japanese	A place that mainly sells Japanese cuisine, which comes from the island nation of Japan, food originating regionally can be divided into sub-categories like cuisine=okinawa_ryori. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	jewish	A place that mainly sells Jewish cuisine, which is a ethno-religious cuisine of the Jewish people internationally and those deriving from the cuisine of Israel and the eastern Mediterranean. Source: (1) (2)
cuisine	korean	A place that mainly sells Korean food, which comes from the Korean Peninsula. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	latin_american	A place that mainly sells Latin American cuisine. Use more specific cuisine=regional tags if possible such as cuisine=brazillian, cuisine=bolivian, cuisine=gaucho, cuisine=mexican, cuisine=mineira, cuisine=new_mexican, cuisine=spanish, cuisine=texan or cuisine=tex-mex.
cuisine	lebanese	A place that mainly sells Lebanese cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	malaysian
cuisine	malagasy	A place that mainly sells Malagasy cuisine. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	mediterranean	A place that mainly sells mediterranean cuisine, which comes from from the cultures adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea. Mediterranean cuisine is especially less popular in the West. Armenian, Lebanese, Israeli, Moroccan, etc. Greek, Italian, French and other cuisines, while technically also being Mediterranean, get their own categories, but a fusion of those cuisines would fit this category. Use more specific tags if possible.
cuisine	mexican	A place that mainly sells mexican cuisine, which comes from the United Mexican States. Examples of food include tacos and buritos. Source: (1) (2)
cuisine	mineira	A place that mainly sells Minira cuisine, which comes from the Brazilian region of Mina Gerais.
cuisine	new_mexican	A place that mainly sells new mexican cuisine, which is a fusion of Native American, Pueblo, Hispano, and Mexican food originating in Nuevo México and the American frontier. Source: (1) (2)
cuisine	okinawa_ryori	Japanese Okinawa food.
cuisine	pakistani
cuisine	peruvian
cuisine	polish
cuisine	portuguese
cuisine	regional	Regional (local) cuisine, if there is no exact description
cuisine	russian	Russian cuisine.
cuisine	scottish	Scottish cuisine
cuisine	shandong	Chinese Shandong cuisine include Beijing style.
cuisine	sichuan	Chinese regional Sichuan food. Source: (1) (2)
cuisine	spanish
cuisine	swabian	the regional cuisine of Swabia, a region in south-western Germany see (3)
cuisine	texan	The regional cuisine of the US state of Texas, popular international chain restaurants include Texas Roadhouse and Luby's. Source: (1) (2)
cuisine	tex-mex	Tex-Mex, a regional cuisine of the US state of Texas, popular international chain restaurants include Taco Bell and Chili's. Source: (1) (2)
cuisine	thai
cuisine	turkish	Turkish cuisine on Wikipedia
cuisine	vietnamese
cuisine	western	Western/european cuisine. More specific terms should be used if possible
cuisine	westphalian	Westphalian, German regional cuisine
cuisine	user-defined	All commonly used values according to Taginfo

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Dietary requirements

Vegetarian and vegan food was previously indicated using the cuisine key, but that practice has now been replaced by the more comprehensive diet=* key.

Semantic issues

cuisine=indian;vegetarian - is it place with various vegetarian cuisine and various indian cuisine? Or is it place with vegetarian indian cuisine?

This case can be handled by using diet:vegetarian=*, by making it more clear:

• cuisine=indian + diet:vegetarian=yes
• cuisine=indian + diet:vegetarian=only

cuisine=seafood;regional - is it place where focused on a regional seafood? Or is it place with regional dishes and various seafood?

cuisine=chinese;japanese - is more clear as this can be interpreted only in one way

See also

• It was suggested [1] to use culture=* instead of cuisine=* for other ethnic, cultural and/or regional services like hairdresser or clothes.
• drink=* Describes which kind of beverage is available
• diet=* Describes dietary options.
• origin=* Describes the origin for the goods of a shop.