Google charts most popular cuisines across US

Google News Lab has crunched the data to chart the most popular cuisines across the United States. Some of their conclusions? Detroit is the pizza capital of the U.S., while New Yorkers are crazy about their Chinese restaurants.

Published on Medium, the findings are based on aggregated, anonymized and private data from users who have opted in to Google Location History.

Overall, the two most popular cuisines across the U.S. are, not surprisingly, pizza and Mexican.

The data also revealed interesting regional trends when it comes to cuisine preferences.

Here’s a snapshot:

(Cities are ranked by cuisine’s share of total restaurant visits)

Pizza

1. Detroit

2. Boston

3. Philadelphia

4. Cleveland

5. Baltimore

6. Chicago

7. Pittsburgh

8. Minneapolis

9. Phoenix

10. Raleigh

Mexican

1. San Antonio

2. Dallas

3. Los Angeles

4. Houston

5. Phoenix

6. Austin

7. Denver

8. San Diego

9. Sacramento

10. Las Vegas

Chinese

1. New York

2. San Francisco

3. Philadelphia

4. Oklahoma

5. Boston

6. Las Vegas

7. San Jose

8. Salt Lake City

9. Orlando

10. Charlotte

Barbecue

1. Memphis

2. Atlanta

3. St. Louis

4. Detroit

5. Charlotte

6. Cleveland

7. Austin

8. Dallas

9. Texas

10. Tampa

Burgers

1. Washington D.C.

2. Minneapolis

3. Portland

4. Boston

5. Pittsburgh

6. Oklahoma

7. Baltimore

8. Indianapolis

9. Salt Lake City

10. Detroit

Coffee

1. Seattle

2. Portland

3. San Diego

4. Sacramento

5. Los Angeles

6. San Francisco

7. San Jose

8. Minneapolis

9. Austin

10. Denver

JB

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