| Travel to most city websites around the
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| | clever psychology as the city has never
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| net and you'll be surprised by how many
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| | indicted which is top. With a population
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| purport to have more restaurants per
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| | of 335,000 the city claims to have 265
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| capita than anywhere else. This is
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| | Italian, French, Greek, East Indian,
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| claimed by San Francisco; Madison,
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| | Vegetarian, German, Dutch, Mexican,
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| Wisconsin; Washington DC; and Shreveport,
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| | Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Thai
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| Louisiana. At least Canadian cities stake
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| | eateries. That means Victoria has a
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| the same claim.
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| | restaurant per 1,264 people. But with its
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| So which cities do have a legitimate
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| | spectacular location halfway between
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| claim to the title of "Most Restaurants
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| | Vancouver and Seattle, you'd hardly care
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| Per Capita?" The National Restaurant
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| | if its claim is a little off.
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| Association (NRA) does publish a list of
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| | In New York City no one cooks at home and
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| restaurants per capita per state.
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| | by the time you've heard of a restaurant
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| According to the Association, California
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| | it has probably closed. Restaurants open
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| has by far the most restaurants with a
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| | and close with alarming alacrity in the
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| staggering 87,225 dining establishments.
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| | Big Apple. On average, the city of New
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| New York State comes in at a paltry
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| | York can claim 6,650 dining places from
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| 58,027. The top five is rounded out by
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| | the chic Lespinasse to the greasiest
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| Texas (53,631), Florida (41,901)
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| | corner diner -- the most restaurants in
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| Pennsylvania (31,466).
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| | any one place on the continent. Yet with
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| In terms of per capita per state,
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| | 8,168,338 people, New York can only claim
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| Washington DC tops the list according to
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| | to have 1, 228 people per restaurant. It
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| NRA. The US capital region boosts some
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| | might seem that every second building in
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| 0.4 restaurants per 100 people. Second
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| | New York is a restaurant but they have to
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| is, surprisingly, Montana at .354
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| | cater to a lot of vertically housed
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| restaurants per 100 people. Rounding out
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| | residents. That explains why it is hard
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| the NRA's top five are Rhode Island
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| | to find a table some nights.
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| (0.304 per 100) Vermont (.303 per 100)
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| | The one Canadian city that can make a
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| New York (.301 per 100). If you are a
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| | great claim to have the most restaurants
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| little hungry you might want avoid the
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| | per capita is Montreal in the province of
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| three states with the fewest restaurants
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| | Quebec. With just over 5,000 restaurants
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| Mississippi, Kentucky and Utah.
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| | in the metro island area, is appears
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| In terms of North American cities, it is
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| | there are at least one restaurant on
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| a little harder to ascertain who can
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| | every street corner. With its diverse
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| claim the title of city with most
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| | immigrant population and French majority,
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| restaurants per capita.
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| | the city has every type of cuisine
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| Here are ten cities with more than
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| | available from Lebanese to continental
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| 100,000 people that have made the claim.
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| | French to native Canadian. Some 3,720,000
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| But who has the real claim? Who offers
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| | Quebecois live in the metro area making
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| the cuisine searcher or just plain hungry
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| | Montreal the second largest French
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| shopper the most choice? Who can claim
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| | speaking city in the world. Giving it a
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| the title of The Restaurant City.
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| | restaurant per capita number of 744.
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| The city of San Francisco is a city of
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| | When you leave Austin you enter Texas so
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| 744,230 people and claims to have 2,662
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| | the saying goes. This funky city in
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| restaurants within the city boundaries.
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| | central Texas has 1,088 eating places to
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| There is no doubt that the standard of
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| | enhance its reputation as Music City USA.
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| restaurants in the city of the bay is
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| | That list includes 128 establishments in
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| exceptional. If you just include San
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| | or around the University of Texas alone.
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| Francisco properly your density is 279
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| | Austin's burgeoning population is
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| people per restaurant. But because costs
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| | currently 690, 252 making their people to
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| of housing the number of people living in
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| | restaurant ratio 634.
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| the city proper has declined while the
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| | Louisville, home to the Kentucky Derby,
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| number of businesses including
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| | is a small city of just over half a
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| restaurants, San Francisco is a distorted
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| | million people. Pap John's Pizza and Yum
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| number. If you count the metro area, the
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| | Brands, the parent company of A&W, KFC,
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| number of restaurants climbs to 4,300
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| | Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, both make
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| restaurants (we won't include hundreds
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| | Louisville their corporate home so it is
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| more in the nearby wine country of Napa
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| | not surprising that that this city on the
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| and Sonoma). If you consider the metro
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| | Ohio River has 1,089 restaurants. That
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| area population of 7,168,176 and divide
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| | makes for 510 people per restaurant.
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| by 4,300 you get a per capita density of
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| | Madison owns the rights to the title of
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| 1,667 people per restaurant.
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| | "city with the most restaurants per
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| Winnipeg is a city on the edge of the
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| | capita" and the capital makes the claim
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| Canadian prairies that boasts a broad
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| | throughout its literature. However,
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| cross section of immigrant communities
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| | pining down the actual number of
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| all of whom have their local ethnic
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| | restaurants is pretty hard. The best list
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| cuisines. If you want French toast for
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| | available points to 437 restaurants that
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| breakfast, perogies and sauerkraut for
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| | caters to 221,551 people in the Wisconsin
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| lunch , and Vietnamese imperial rolls for
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| | city. But that makes for only 506 people
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| dinner then this is the place to come.
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| | for each restaurant. Good for only third
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| This city regularly claims to have more
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| | on this list.
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| restaurants per capita than any other
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| | Wichita, Kansas is not usually a city
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| city. Some websites claim the city has
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| | that leaps to mind when one thinks of
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| 900 restaurants but in reality there are
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| | cuisine. But with an ethnically diverse
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| just 478. With a population of 619,544
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| | work force, the largest city in Kansas
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| Winnipeg can claim only one restaurant
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| | has a reputation for cultural diversity
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| per 1,296 snow-bound Canadian.
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| | and is located in the breadbasket of
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| Victoria. This city on Vancouver Island
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| | America. The 739 restaurants in town have
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| and capital city of British Columbia,
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| | only to cater to 360, 715 people. That
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| Canada regularly makes the claim that it
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| | translates into 488 people per
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| has the "second highest number of
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| | restaurant, good for second on our list.
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| restaurants per capita," which is perhaps
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