Leaderboard
Best cities for eats
Every city in the CityFunIndex, ranked by its Eats score. Restaurants, food halls and the depth of the dining scene.
- Cities ranked
- 134
- Top score
- 93
- Average
- 49
Pillar scores are national percentile ranks on a saturation curve, so the leader of every category lands near the same ceiling — the ranks beneath are still distinct. See how scoring works →
Gatlinburg (93) leads, ahead of Stowe (92) and Park City (92). Hialeah anchors the bottom at 0 — a 93-point gap.
Regional read The top 10 spans 9 different states — no single state dominates this board.
All 134 cities, coloured by eats score band. The top-ranked cities draw larger.
- Quiet
- Some Fun
- Fun
- Very Fun
- Exceptional
Score spread across all 134 cities
- Quiet 40
- Some Fun 26
- Fun 27
- Very Fun 21
- Exceptional 20
Ranked 5–134
- T#5 91 Key West, FL
- T#5 91 Sedona, AZ
- T#5 91 Jackson, WY
- T#8 90 Asheville, NC
- T#8 90 Aspen, CO
- T#8 90 San Francisco, CA
- T#11 89 Portland, ME
- T#11 89 Honolulu, HI
- T#13 88 Hilton Head Island, SC
- T#13 88 Santa Fe, NM
- T#13 88 Santa Barbara, CA
- T#16 87 Seattle, WA
- T#16 87 Portland, OR
- T#18 86 Charleston, SC
- T#18 86 Washington, DC
- #20 85 Richmond, VA
- T#21 84 Pittsburgh, PA
- T#21 84 Denver, CO
- T#23 83 Burlington, VT
- T#23 83 Boulder, CO
- #25 82 New Orleans, LA
- #26 81 Atlanta, GA
- T#27 80 Scottsdale, AZ
- T#27 80 Oakland, CA
- #29 79 St. Louis, MO
- #30 78 Boston, MA
- T#31 77 Minneapolis, MN
- T#31 77 Manchester, NH
- #33 76 Austin, TX
- #34 75 Cincinnati, OH
- T#35 74 Madison, WI
- T#35 74 Bend, OR
- #37 73 Colorado Springs, CO
- #38 72 Baltimore, MD
- T#39 71 San Diego, CA
- T#39 71 Tampa, FL
- #41 70 Savannah, GA
- #42 69 New York, NY
- T#43 68 Greensboro, NC
- T#43 68 Plano, TX
- #45 67 Billings, MT
- #46 66 Orlando, FL
- T#47 65 Reno, NV
- T#47 65 Boise, ID
- #49 64 Chicago, IL
- #50 63 Virginia Beach, VA
- T#51 62 Raleigh, NC
- T#51 62 Albuquerque, NM
- #53 61 Kansas City, MO
- #54 60 Chandler, AZ
- T#55 59 Providence, RI
- T#55 59 St. Petersburg, FL
- #57 58 Aurora, CO
- #58 57 Tulsa, OK
- T#59 56 Spokane, WA
- T#59 56 Jersey City, NJ
- #61 55 Charlotte, NC
- #62 54 Charleston, WV
- T#63 53 San Jose, CA
- T#63 53 Norfolk, VA
- #65 52 Mesa, AZ
- #66 51 Gilbert, AZ
- T#67 50 Fremont, CA
- T#67 50 Columbus, OH
- #69 49 Nashville, TN
- #70 48 Durham, NC
- T#71 47 Lexington, KY
- T#71 47 Chesapeake, VA
- #73 46 Miami, FL
- #74 45 Saint Paul, MN
- T#75 44 Napa, CA
- T#75 44 Fresno, CA
- #77 43 Cleveland, OH
- #78 42 Tucson, AZ
- T#79 41 Anchorage, AK
- T#79 41 Lubbock, TX
- #81 40 Sacramento, CA
- #82 39 Dallas, TX
- T#83 38 Omaha, NE
- T#83 38 Milwaukee, WI
- #85 37 Long Beach, CA
- #86 36 Des Moines, IA
- T#87 35 Los Angeles, CA
- T#87 35 Fort Wayne, IN
- #89 34 Houston, TX
- #90 33 Lincoln, NE
- T#91 32 Louisville, KY
- T#91 32 Fargo, ND
- #93 31 Buffalo, NY
- #94 30 Oklahoma City, OK
- T#95 29 Riverside, CA
- T#95 29 Indianapolis, IN
- #97 28 Irvine, CA
- #98 27 Little Rock, AR
- T#99 26 Philadelphia, PA
- T#99 26 Bridgeport, CT
- #101 25 Irving, TX
- #102 24 Detroit, MI
- T#103 23 San Antonio, TX
- T#103 23 Toledo, OH
- #105 22 Baton Rouge, LA
- #106 21 Glendale, AZ
- T#107 20 Henderson, NV
- T#107 20 Birmingham, AL
- #109 19 Phoenix, AZ
- #110 18 Santa Clarita, CA
- T#111 17 Winston-Salem, NC
- T#111 17 El Paso, TX
- #113 16 Bismarck, ND
- #114 15 Wichita, KS
- T#115 14 Las Vegas, NV
- T#115 14 Sioux Falls, SD
- #117 13 Fort Worth, TX
- #118 12 Arlington, TX
- T#119 11 Newark, NJ
- T#119 11 Memphis, TN
- #121 10 Anaheim, CA
- #122 9 Jacksonville, FL
- T#123 8 Hartford, CT
- T#123 8 Corpus Christi, TX
- #125 7 Wilmington, DE
- #126 6 Laredo, TX
- T#127 5 Bakersfield, CA
- T#127 5 Santa Ana, CA
- #129 4 Garland, TX
- #130 3 Montgomery, AL
- T#131 2 Jackson, MS
- T#131 2 Stockton, CA
- #133 1 North Las Vegas, NV
- #134 0 Hialeah, FL
Eats is measured from OpenStreetMap restaurant counts, with Google Places ratings adjusting for venue quality.