Portland Ranked #1 Best Foodie Scene In America: WalletHub.com
PORTLAND, OR — For its variety of dining options, such as breweries, ice cream and coffee shops, and even its food trucks, Portland was recently ranked the number one best and cheapest foodie scene out of nearly 200 other cities in the United States.
Personal finance website WalletHub.com released its foodie study this week, identifying all the best — and worst — cities for folks to get their grub on. Using metrics that break down various aspects of affordability as well as diversity, accessibility, and quality, WalletHub.com's expert foodie panel examined 182 of the most populated U.S. cities to determine which had the best food scene.
Portland came in at #1 overall, with San Francisco, Miami, New York, and Los Angeles rounding out the top five.
Source: WalletHub
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Notably, Portland tied Vancouver, Washington — its neighbor to the north — for the 177th spot on the list of highest average beer and wine prices; Portland was also included in two five-way first place ties for most craft breweries and wineries per capita and most coffee shops per capita.
WalletHub.com's point-based ranking for affordability (with a max of 30 points available) considered metrics like the cost of groceries, access and affordability of high-quality restaurants, the cost of meals at restaurants, taxes for sales, restaurants, and food, and the average price for beer and wine.
The ranking for diversity, accessibility, and quality was weighted a bit more heavily (with a max of 70 points available). For that dimension, WalletHub.com's experts considered metrics such as restaurants per capita, the ratio of full service restaurants to fast food establishments, restaurants diversity, Yelp's average rankings, food trucks per capita, farmers markets programs, breweries per capita, ice cream shops per capita, coffee and tea shops per capita, gourmet specialty food stores per capita, butcher shops, kitchen supplies, food festivals, cooking schools, and more.
For each dimension category, Portland ranked #17 for affordability and #5 for diversity, accessibility, and quality.
To review the full report, visit WalletHub.com.
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