I also have some interactive charts here (which work best on desktop): https://www.memolli.com/blog/nyc-restaurant-popular-cuisines/

The figure was made using Python, Plotly, and Figma. Data is from a publicly available dataset of restaurant inspections from ~30,000 restaurants in NYC. Links to the jupyter notebook and data source in the above-linked blog post.

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16 comments

  2. interesting to see that Central Park is filled with French restaurants /s

  3. Wish I could tell the difference between half the colors used.

  4. How is this measured? Most common restaurant type? Most food sold? Most money made? How are different types classified? When does a steakhouse become French, or an Asian fusion become Thai or Japanese? Is a Cuban place Caribbean or Latin american? Does Chipotle call itself Mexican? Who determines classification? Is all soul food, BBQ, hot dogs, steakhouse, burger joints etc. Lumped into american? How many different types of south Asian cuisine is lumped into “Indian”. Nepali? Bengali? Pakistani?

  7. Besides French, most restaurants are either American or Latin American. Beautifully hard to tell.

  8. So, there are French restaurants in Central Park? Shitty color legend.

  9. Serious question: What is American food? Burgers and fries? 

  11. “American” food is pulling a lot of weight here. But Italian food in Staten Island definitely tracks! And Mexican in Spanish Harlem … um, kinda tracks?

  13. This really conceals the often amazing variety within individual NYC zip codes though. Maybe more interesting would be to map each zip code’s demographics to its most popular cuisine and see if there are any that don’t match.

  14. Interesting to see how big American zip codes are. My postal code is just my side of my block, like 30 houses.

  15. TIL people are ignorant and don’t have any clue what American cuisine is. Hint: if you think it’s fast food, you are ignorant.

  16. Wait, is there a neighborhood in the Bronx where Spanish food predominates?

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