

Using the Yelp API, I compared the ratings of the top 40 rated restaurants in New York City and Los Angeles from 119 different restaurant categories. Out of these categories I took only the categories that had at least 100 Yelp certified restaurants in each city to avoid low sampling biases and to ensure fair comparisons. Here is what I found.
Among the top 40 restaurants in each city, New York City offered more highly rated French, Italian, Tex-Mex, and Thai restaurants as compared to Los Angeles.
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*: p<0.05 |
Los Angeles, on the other hand, offered more highly rated BBQ, fast food, Korean, Mexican, and salad restaurants among its top 40 as compared to New York City.
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*: p<0.05, **: p<0.01, ***: p<0.001 |
Note that all the findings I previously reported were statistically significant using an unpaired two-sample t-test, assuming unequal variances, with a p-value less than 5%. The categories of restaurants that did not come out significantly different between cities were:
- New American
- Traditional American
- Asian Fusion
- Breakfast Brunch
- Burgers
- Cafes
- Chicken Wings
- Chinese
- Delis
- Diners
- Hot Dog
- Indian/Pakistani
- Japanese
- Latin
- Mediterranean
- Middle Eastern
- Pizza
- Sandwiches
- Seafood
- Steak
- Sushi
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Vietnamese
So there you have it, Yelp has spoken (as of November 1st, 2014), and we are left a little bit more insightful about what kinds of restaurants to choose in our next foray to these great cities.
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