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1 San Juan, P.R. 4.36
2 Providence 4.36 3 Philadelphia 4.35
4 New Orleans 4.27 5 Chicago 4.25
6 Portland, OR 4.21
7 San Francisco 4.20
8 Seattle 4.19
9 New York City 4.19
10 Portland, ME 4.16
11 Savannah 4.15
12 San Diego 4.10
13 Austin 4.09
14 Santa Fe 4.05
15 Denver 4.03 16 Los Angeles 4.03
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Originally Posted by Huge Foodie 215
For people not from the West Coast, I think it's easier for them to accept Chicago and Philadelphia being better food cities than LA and SF.
Out here, I never really hear much about LA or SF when it comes to food. Again, it has to do with the established nature of CHI and PHI vs. LA and SF.
When people say San Francisco, are they counting the whole Bay Area?
Well, taking it from a real life perspective, when people generally talk about American cities, it also includes the general region around a city.
Then again, from a real life perspective, 99% of what we discuss on CD would be seen as "nerdy" and sometimes even "embarrassing"
I do hear people talk about foodie cities though, considering most of us do like eating (leaving out those with eating disorders). However, I still have the opinion things should be judged on a restaurant to restaurant basis, and even that has a whole lot of variation among the staff of a restaurant.
1 San Juan, P.R. 4.36
2 Providence 4.36 3 Philadelphia 4.35
4 New Orleans 4.27 5 Chicago 4.25
6 Portland, OR 4.21
7 San Francisco 4.20
8 Seattle 4.19
9 New York City 4.19
10 Portland, ME 4.16
11 Savannah 4.15
12 San Diego 4.10
13 Austin 4.09
14 Santa Fe 4.05
15 Denver 4.03 16 Los Angeles 4.03
Generally the "American Public" has terrible taste in everything, food included. God knows I definitely think Philly has better food than New York City
Well, taking it from a real life perspective, when people generally talk about American cities, it also includes the general region around a city.
Then again, from a real life perspective, 99% of what we discuss on CD would be seen as "nerdy" and sometimes even "embarrassing"
I do hear people talk about foodie cities though, considering most of us do like eating (leaving out those with eating disorders). However, I still have the opinion things should be judged on a restaurant to restaurant basis, and even that has a whole lot of variation among the staff of a restaurant.
LOL how many times have you tried to tell somebody about something you learned from C-D (of course leaving out the part that you post on and read a city-data message board every day) and they just give you a blank stare, as if they are thinking "who cares?".
1 San Juan, P.R. 4.36
2 Providence 4.36 3 Philadelphia 4.35
4 New Orleans 4.27 5 Chicago 4.25
6 Portland, OR 4.21
7 San Francisco 4.20
8 Seattle 4.19
9 New York City 4.19
10 Portland, ME 4.16
11 Savannah 4.15
12 San Diego 4.10
13 Austin 4.09
14 Santa Fe 4.05
15 Denver 4.03 16 Los Angeles 4.03
Not sure on the rankings but some of the sub categories were at least intelectually interesting to me
For my home town I am not surprised it did worst on Barbecue and best on street food and hamburgers with strong showings on pizza, beer, fine dining, and ethnic food. That would make sense to me.
Cant speak for SJ (Providence is really good Italian but less on the gran scheme to me) and I would personally put NYC, Chicago, and SF ahead of Philly with Philly and LA vieing for the next spot and Houston close behind
these lists might also suggest SLC is not a foodie town, cant really say personally but have never really heard it referred to as such
Philadelphia might be the best sandwich city in America. But that's not enough. If we count the whole Bay Area, San Francisco gets my vote as the best after NYC.
Has New Orleans gotten any love in this thread?
I would take New Orleans cuisine over any other city in the South.
LOL how many times have you tried to tell somebody about something you learned from C-D (of course leaving out the part that you post on and read a city-data message board every day) and they just give you a blank stare, as if they are thinking "who cares?".
It's actually a bit sad, but some of the girls I date ask me "what's the site with a blue screen you are always on?" I have to switch it to porn sometimes because its actually less embarrassing.
I mean, to be honest, some of the stuff I do learn on here is great whenever I travel because I feel like I've been to that place before, knowing where to eat and what place is known for what. However, when it comes to the stats part of it and all the surveys, I tend to tune it out.
I actually find it weirder that people here post and make some really non-factual statement DESPITE obviously having access to Google and the rest of the internet for sources to see if their statements are right and wrong. Personally, I don't like making too many statements without backing it up with some sort of objective fact, but yet its common on this forum (which partially forms the entertainment value).
The best part about threads like these: you're taking something that isn't really city specific and making it into a city specific item. I'm sure if a 5 star chef moves from NYC or SF to a place like Wichita, KS, the quality of the food they make will suddenly drop 1000% and the chef will lose all his skill.
Well, taking it from a real life perspective, when people generally talk about American cities, it also includes the general region around a city.
Then again, from a real life perspective, 99% of what we discuss on CD would be seen as "nerdy" and sometimes even "embarrassing"
I do hear people talk about foodie cities though, considering most of us do like eating (leaving out those with eating disorders). However, I still have the opinion things should be judged on a restaurant to restaurant basis, and even that has a whole lot of variation among the staff of a restaurant.
People talk about the region for some things. But for food, people typically talk about just the city. For Philadelphia, no one thinks about the suburbs (which do have good food). But San Francisco Bay is pretty unique because it has Napa and San Jose and even Oakland, which have good food scenes.
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Originally Posted by gwillyfromphilly
I would take New Orleans cuisine over any other city in the South.
People talk about the region for some things. But for food, people typically talk about just the city. For Philadelphia, no one thinks about the suburbs (which do have good food). But San Francisco Bay is pretty unique because it has Napa and San Jose and even Oakland, which have good food scenes.
So if there was a really awesome restaurant right outside the municipal borders of Philadelphia, it wouldn't count as contributing to the Philadelphia food scene? I mean, I can see that being the case in a place with established municipal borders where there really is a strong identity shift like in Chicago, NYC, Philadelphia, etc.
However, not everywhere takes municipal borders that seriously, especially in places out West where municipal borders are so weirdly drawn it makes no sense to constantly refer to them. People generally have different frames of references depending on where they're from. A huge chunk of LA's food scene really isn't in the municipal borders of the City of LA, yet I still consider it part of the LA food scene.
In addition, I've actually never heard of San Jose being a foodie destination in its own right, though it does have awesome food. I ate at a Vietnamese restaurant near Silver Creek and Capitol Expressway and it seriously had the best Vietnamese rice dishes I've ever had anywhere (including Orange County, where I lived earlier this year). However, I really only know about it because one of my good friends live there.
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