Method
How our rankings work
“Best” means the top-ranked restaurant for that dish and place among the restaurants we have reviews for. Rankings are based on public reviews, not visits, and change as new reviews are collected.
Step 1
We find the reviews about the dish
For every restaurant that serves a dish in a place, we collect its public reviews and pick out the ones that mention that dish.
Step 2
We score each restaurant
The score combines the restaurant's overall rating with how often its reviews mention the dish.
Step 3
The top score wins
The restaurant with the highest score is the guide's pick. The others are listed below it, in order.
The detail
What the numbers on a guide mean
- Reviews across the restaurants: the review totals each restaurant’s listing shows. They cover every dish, so they are not the number of reviews we read.
- Reviews we collected: the reviews we actually have for those restaurants. Older guides did not always record this separately, so we don’t estimate it from the listing totals.
- Reviews mentioning the dish: collected reviews matched to the dish. The same person can write more than one, so they are not a count of separate visits.
How the score works
The score adds two parts. The restaurant’s overall rating gives up to seven points. How often its reviews mention the dish, compared with its total number of reviews, gives up to three more. It is BiteRanked’s comparison score, not a star rating from diners.
How positive the reviews of the dish are, and how that has changed over time, is shown on each guide for context. Neither is part of the score, and the score does not favour recent reviews. Some older guides were scored by earlier methods.
What we check before a guide is published
New guides are checked for enough restaurants and reviews mentioning the dish, for matching evidence, for consistent scoring, and for a photo or a clear note that there isn’t one. Older guides use a separate minimum-evidence check. Passing these checks doesn’t mean every restaurant in the area was considered, or that a person checked the result.
Dates, photos and prices
A guide’s date is when its ranking was last updated, not a promise that every menu, photo or review was collected that day. A dish photo appears only when we could match it to the dish; a photo of the restaurant is never used as a stand-in. Price ranges are the restaurant’s, not the dish’s. Check prices, availability and opening hours with the restaurant.
Using your location
“Use my location” finds the nearest city we cover, in your browser; your position is not sent to us. The distance shown is a straight line to the city centre, not a walking distance or a distance to any restaurant.