✦ East Bronx, counted

East Bronx by the numbers.

Every restaurant we track in East Bronx, The Bronx — 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.

Median Sweet Scoreacross 496 scored places

The reason this site exists

Star averages can't tell anyone apart

56% of every place we track lands between 4.0 and 4.7 stars. The most common score of all is 4.1 — that badge is worn by 57 different restaurants. A number that everybody has is not information. The Sweet Score spreads the same places across 19 bands instead of one.

Star average — one spike, no separation

Sweet Score — the same places, actually spread out

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. East Bronx is 2.3× more Caribbean 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.

All the dishes →

The question everybody asks

Does spending more get you a better meal?

A little, and then it stops. The median $ place scores 44; the median $$$$ place scores 91. Four dollar signs buys you 47 points — on a scale where the gap between #1 and #50 in a single town is bigger than that.

Price	Places	Median Sweet Score	Median ratings
$	288	44	140
$$	155	56	232
$$$	4	53	313
$$$$	3	91	120

The categories

What this region is made of

Every place belongs to every category it earned, so these add up to more than 599. 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	90	53	8,834
Coffee	62	45	37,472
Chinese	53	32	19,999
Pizza	52	53	17,518
Dessert	49	36	11,747
American	47	47	18,925
Fast Food	46	30	43,425
Mexican	44	60	15,985
Bakery	36	42	10,399
Burgers	27	28	40,931
Bar & Grill	27	62	7,264
Seafood	25	36	25,807
Caribbean	24	48	16,589
Latin	21	56	10,527
Breakfast & Brunch	19	51	23,003
Halal	14	28	2,794
Italian	14	62	9,791
Japanese	13	50	10,920

Every ranking →

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.

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.

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.

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