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Best Cities for Foodies

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Best Cities for Foodies
NerdWallet wrote:The overall score for each city was calculated using the following measures:

The number of restaurants per 100,000 residents in the metro area is 30% of the score. Data are from the U.S. Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns.
The ratio of full-service restaurants to fast-food restaurants is 30% of the score. Data are from the USDA Food Environment Atlas.
Number of breweries per 100,000 residents is 15% of the score. Data are from the Brewery Collectibles Club of America.
The number of farmers markets per 100,000 residents in the county for each city is 15% of the score. Data are from the USDA Food Environment Atlas.
Cost of a three-course meal for two at a midrange restaurant is 10% of the score. Data are from Numbeo.
1 San Francisco, CA 72.43
2 Portland, OR 72.12
3 Seattle, WA 58.68
4 New Orleans, LA 56.63
5 Oakland, CA 56.12
6 Denver, CO 52.14
7 Boston, MA 52.05
8 Anchorage, AK 46.61
9 Pittsburgh, PA 42.92
10 New York, NY 44.87
11 Honolulu, HI 44.77
12 San Jose, CA 43.51
13 Minneapolis, MN 43.12
14 St. Louis MO 42.16
15 Omaha, NE 42.11
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I love seeing Omaha in the likes of that company.
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Has anyone done an exhaustive inventory of the number of good restaurants to have opened in the last 15 years? I was just thinking about this the other day, in 2000 if you wanted a first class dinner your choices were V Mertz or the Cafe de Paris (which closed several years ago.) Now, Sweet Ahura Mazda, the city is full of incredible restaurants at a number of price points. There are some amazing food trucks, (I had an exquicious Cuban sandwich from the Island Seasons food truck on Monday.) Between Dundee and Benson there are about a dozen really good restaurants that have opened within the last 10 years. Downtown dining has never been better and when you throw in Midtown, it's amazing. heck, even the quality of chain restaurants has improved significantly. This is a great town to eat in. Now if we could just get a first rate roller coaster park and a Neiman Marcus (or at least a Nordstrom) and we'd be set.
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