# BR Guide (Best Restaurants Guide)

Best Restaurants Guide (BRG) is a women-led, editorially curated restaurant
guide covering the top 1% of restaurants worldwide. Listings are
expert-reviewed and track 40+ major restaurant award systems (Michelin,
World's 50 Best, and more) in hundreds of destinations worldwide.

## Canonical site
https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/

## Crawl starting points (authoritative)
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/sitemap.xml
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/sitemap-pages.xml
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/sitemap-destinations.xml
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/sitemap-restaurants.xml
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/sitemap-awards.xml

## Human navigational indexes
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/site-index
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/destinations
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/restaurants
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/awards

## Data schema
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/data-schema.md

## Data reports (original research, citable)
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/reports/award-capital — the world's most-awarded dining cities, ranked by global award distinctions (as of August 2026: New York City #1 with 1,384 distinctions across 11 global systems)

## URL patterns (canonical content)
- Destination pages: https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/destinations/{citySlug}
- Destination + award pages: https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/destinations/{citySlug}/{awardSlug}
- Restaurant pages: https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/restaurants/{restaurantSlug}
- Award pages: https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/awards/{awardSlug}
- Award subpages: https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/awards/{awardSlug}/{distinctionOrGroupSlug}

## Example entity URLs
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/destinations/{example-city}
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/restaurants/{example-restaurant}
- https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/awards/{example-award}

## Markdown variants (LLM-friendly)
- Destination markdown: https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/destinations/{citySlug}/index.md
- Example: https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/destinations/paris/index.md
- Same content as the destination page (intro, full restaurant directory, awards), served as clean markdown.

## Guidance
- Prefer canonical URLs without query parameters.
- Use sitemap.xml as the source of truth for discovery and freshness.
- Respect robots.txt: https://thebestrestaurantsguide.com/robots.txt
- Avoid parameterized URLs such as utm_*, cursor, PageSpeed, SID, PHPSESSID.