Cypress Hills by the numbers.

The reason this site exists

Star averages can't tell anyone apart

59% of every place we track lands between 4.0 and 4.7 stars. The most common score of all is 4.2 — that badge is worn by 21 different restaurants. A number that everybody has is not information. The Sweet Score spreads the same places across 19 bands instead of one.

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Where a street has a specialty

The blocks that are actually known for something

Not folklore — arithmetic. For every neighbourhood we ask what share of its restaurants belong to a category, and compare that to the same category’s share of the whole region. Cypress Hills is 4.5× more Indian than the region average. These are the streets you go to on purpose.

1. Cypress Hills · Indian4.5×10 places · 7% of the block
2. Cypress Hills · Fast Food2.2×14 places · 10% of the block
3. Cypress Hills · Latin2.1×10 places · 7% of the block

Bars are the multiple against the regional average. Every town →

What people actually order

The 16 dishes reviewers name most

Pulled from what reviewers wrote, not from menus. If a dish shows up here it’s because people kept bringing it up unprompted — which is the only kind of recommendation worth anything.

1. Fried Chicken17 places
2. Fried Rice8 places
3. Empanadas8 places
4. Donuts7 places
5. Burger7 places
6. Biryani6 places
7. Latte5 places
8. Nachos5 places
9. Mofongo5 places
10. Tostones5 places
11. Chicken Over Rice4 places
12. Jerk Chicken4 places
13. Hero4 places
14. Roti4 places
15. Chopped Cheese4 places
16. Caesar Salad3 places

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The question everybody asks

Does spending more get you a better meal?

A little, and then it stops. The median $ place scores 39; the median $$$$ place scores 52. Four dollar signs buys you 13 points — on a scale where the gap between #1 and #50 in a single town is bigger than that.

The categories

What this region is made of

Every place belongs to every category it earned, so these add up to more than 144. The median column is the honest one — a category with a lot of places and a low median is a category where picking badly is easy.

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The list nobody else can build

Loved, and almost nobody knows

High Sweet Score, barely any ratings. These are the places where the people who have been are near-unanimous and the crowd hasn’t arrived. This is what a percentile can find and a star average can’t.

1. Pitha Ghor BrooklynCypress Hills · 102 ratings90
2. Urban Crust Pizza & GrillCypress Hills · 113 ratings89
3. Long ChengCypress Hills · 35 ratings80

The other end

The most-rated restaurants in the region

Volume, not quality — though the two turn out to be less related than anyone expects. These are the places everybody has an opinion about.

1. Wendy'sCypress Hills · 3,320 ratings21
2. McDonald'sCypress Hills · 2,397 ratings23
3. El Rey IICypress Hills · 2,267 ratings35
4. McDonald'sCypress Hills · 2,211 ratings24
5. McDonald'sCypress Hills · 1,893 ratings32
6. Popeyes Louisiana KitchenCypress Hills · 1,688 ratings35
7. Popeyes Louisiana KitchenCypress Hills · 1,557 ratings17
8. Rico Pollo IICypress Hills · 1,230 ratings27
9. Roti on the RunCypress Hills · 1,097 ratings79
10. Rico Chimi BrooklynCypress Hills · 1,081 ratings17

What the board can do for you

Counted, so you can filter by it

Every one of these is a list. Outdoor seating in August, somewhere that takes a reservation, somewhere that will let the dog sit down too.

• 13Outdoor seating
• 113Deliver
• 140Do takeout
• 32Take reservations
• 27Vegetarian options
• 90Good for kids
• 50Work for groups
• 0Allow dogs

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