10 best U.S. foodie cities
Dining is one of the lifestyle areas that have been largely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. With restaurants closed to inhouse dining, takeout and delivery services became popular, and as they started opening back up, outdoor dining increased. People also have opted to cook more meals at home. Recently, WalletHub looked for the best and cheapest foodie scenes, comparing 182 cities—including the 150 most populated U.S. cities, plus at least two of the most populated cities in each state—across two key dimensions, “Affordability” and “Diversity, Accessibility and Quality.”
The data set ranges from cost of groceries to affordability and accessibility of high-quality restaurants to food festivals per capita. They evaluated the dimensions using 29 relevant weighted metrics. Each metric was graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing the most favorable conditions and costs for foodies, then they determined each city’s weighted average across all metrics to calculate its overall score and used the resulting scores to rank-order the cities in our sample. Click through the gallery above to see the top 10 best U.S. foodie cities.
