✦ Deer Park, counted
Deer Park by the numbers.
Every restaurant we track in Deer Park, Suffolk — measured on exactly the same scale as every other street in the region, which is the only way these figures mean anything next to anybody else’s.
The reason this site exists
Star averages can't tell anyone apart
74% of every place we track lands between 4.0 and 4.7 stars. The most common score of all is 4.3 — that badge is worn by 18 different restaurants. A number that everybody has is not information. The Sweet Score spreads the same places across 18 bands instead of one.
How the Sweet Score is built →
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. Deer Park is 3.8× more Steakhouse than the region average. These are the streets you go to on purpose.
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.
The question everybody asks
Does spending more get you a better meal?
A little, and then it stops.
| Price | Places | Median Sweet Score | Median ratings |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ | 47 | 58 | 165 |
| $$ | 32 | 38 | 320 |
| $$$ | 1 | 41 | 44 |
The categories
What this region is made of
Every place belongs to every category it earned, so these add up to more than 110. 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.
| Category | Places | Median score | Ratings behind it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deli | 17 | 53 | 2,656 |
| Bakery | 13 | 57 | 2,615 |
| Coffee | 13 | 32 | 3,881 |
| Chinese | 12 | 56 | 1,809 |
| Dessert | 12 | 42 | 2,539 |
| Mexican | 10 | 42 | 4,540 |
| Latin | 9 | 27 | 2,800 |
| Pizza | 8 | 58 | 2,304 |
| Seafood | 7 | 38 | 8,713 |
| Burgers | 7 | 73 | 5,289 |
| Fast Food | 6 | 40 | 2,786 |
| Breakfast & Brunch | 6 | 30 | 4,350 |
| Italian | 6 | 52 | 2,914 |
| Steakhouse | 5 | 38 | 10,399 |
| American | 5 | 41 | 1,997 |
| Halal | 4 | 60 | 3,865 |
| Middle Eastern | 3 | 57 | 1,031 |
| Bagels | 3 | 65 | 890 |
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.
- ElpuntofoodtruckllcDeer Park · 34 ratings83
- TaheniDeer Park · 149 ratings79
- QDOBA Mexican EatsDeer Park · 80 ratings78
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.
- Texas RoadhouseDeer Park · 4,776 ratings49
- Miller's Ale HouseDeer Park · 3,133 ratings48
- Burger VillageDeer Park · 2,405 ratings93
- The Olympic DinerDeer Park · 2,052 ratings23
- INDE SPICEDeer Park · 1,960 ratings88
- Red LobsterDeer Park · 1,914 ratings78
- Popei's Clam BarDeer Park · 1,402 ratings38
- White CastleDeer Park · 1,164 ratings59
- Right Coast Taqueria Deer ParkDeer Park · 1,155 ratings60
- Chipotle Mexican GrillDeer Park · 1,073 ratings15
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.
- 9Outdoor seating
- 97Deliver
- 108Do takeout
- 17Take reservations
- 34Vegetarian options
- 80Good for kids
- 41Work for groups
- 2Allow dogs