🍽️ European Food & Cuisine Quiz

Trace a dish back to the country it comes from.

A signature dish for each of the 43 countries in Europe — the ones a country is best known for abroad, listed below.

European Food & Cuisine Quiz at a glance

Dishes, one per country
43
Subregions covered
7
Island nations among them
3
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Signature dishes of Europe

CountryKnown for
AlbaniaByrek
AustriaWiener schnitzel
AzerbaijanPlov azerbaijani
BelarusDraniki
BelgiumWaffle
Bosnia and HerzegovinaCevapi
BulgariaShopska salad
CroatiaPeka
CyprusHalloumi
CzechiaTrdelník
DenmarkSmørrebrød
EstoniaKama
FinlandKarjalanpiirakka
FranceCroissant
GermanyBratwurst
GreeceMoussaka
HungaryGoulash
IcelandPlokkfiskur
IrelandIrish stew
ItalyPizza
KosovoFlija
LatviaGrey peas with bacon
LithuaniaCabbage rolls
LuxembourgJudd mat gaardebounen
MaltaPastizzi
MoldovaZeamă
MontenegroCicvara
NetherlandsStroopwafel
North MacedoniaTavče gravče
NorwayRakfisk
PolandPierogi
PortugalFrancesinha
RomaniaSarmale
RussiaPelmeni
SerbiaBurek
SlovakiaBryndzové halušky
SloveniaSausage with sauerkraut
SpainPaella
SwedenMeatballs (köttbullar)
SwitzerlandFondue
TurkeyKebab
UkraineBorscht
United KingdomFish and chips

About the European Food & Cuisine quiz

How many countries are in the Europe quiz?
43 — every country in Europe with the data this quiz needs. Questions are drawn fresh from that pool each round, so no two rounds repeat.
Why are some dishes in Europe easy to confuse?
Because neighbours share ingredients and history. Europe spans 7 subregions — Southeast Europe, Central Europe, Western Asia, Eastern Europe and more. Within a subregion the near-misses cluster; across 43 countries the outliers are the ones with 3 island cuisines shaped by what grows there and what arrived by sea.
How much of Europe does one dish have to stand for?
A lot: 838,807,917 people live across these 43 countries, and each gets a single entry. The dish chosen is the one the country is best known for outside its own borders, not the one eaten most.
How many dishes are in the Europe food quiz?
43, one per country. The table above is the full list, so it doubles as the answer key.
Is one dish really enough to represent a country?
No — every one of these countries has a far broader cuisine. The quiz uses the single dish most widely associated with each country internationally, which is what makes it guessable.

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