Ohio ranks 4th in Open Table's hottest restaurant listings (Columbus: calculated, restaurants)

[WRnative]

Ohio follows Florida, California and New York, in the number of Open Table hottest restaurants, based on an analysis of reviews on the restaurant reservation website.

100 Best Restaurants in America 2017, According to OpenTable

[dxdtdemon]

If Cleveland had more of these than the rest of the state, you would've been only bragging about the Cleveland ones. But guess who has as many as Green while Columbus and Cincinnati have multiple ones. Ha, ha.

[WRnative]

Originally Posted by dxdtdemon

If Cleveland had more of these than the rest of the state, you would've been only bragging about the Cleveland ones. But guess who has as many as Green while Columbus and Cincinnati have multiple ones. Ha, ha.

Cleveland has two. I didn't count the number for the other cities.

Both of the Cleveland restaurants are the flagships of James Beard award winning chefs Michael Symon and Jonathon Sawyer. To my knowledge, no Beard winners are active chefs in either Cincinnati or Columbus.

I'm not certain how the Open Table hottest restaurant honors are calculated, but it's possible that the presence of many excellent restaurants relative to the size of the market limits the ability of a restaurant to make the 100 best list, especially if reviewers are grading other great restaurants against James Beard winners.

Candidly, there are other restaurants that I enjoy more than the Open Table 100 hottest restaurants in both Cleveland and Columbus, the two markets of which I'm most familiar, but the restaurants on the list are certainly excellent restaurants.