✦ Greenpoint, counted
Greenpoint by the numbers.
Every restaurant we track in Greenpoint, Brooklyn — 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
73% of every place we track lands between 4.0 and 4.7 stars. The most common score of all is 4.5 — that badge is worn by 45 different restaurants. A number that everybody has is not information. The Sweet Score spreads the same places across 19 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. Greenpoint is 7.6× more Eastern European 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. The median $ place scores 60; the median $$$$ place scores 66. Four dollar signs buys you 6 points — on a scale where the gap between #1 and #50 in a single town is bigger than that.
| Price | Places | Median Sweet Score | Median ratings |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ | 98 | 60 | 236 |
| $$ | 123 | 64 | 341 |
| $$$ | 5 | 71 | 409 |
| $$$$ | 6 | 66 | 286 |
The categories
What this region is made of
Every place belongs to every category it earned, so these add up to more than 262. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bar & Grill | 60 | 56 | 22,887 |
| Coffee | 54 | 65 | 13,722 |
| Deli | 24 | 56 | 4,446 |
| Bakery | 20 | 74 | 12,810 |
| Japanese | 19 | 67 | 7,297 |
| Pizza | 15 | 62 | 7,013 |
| Dessert | 15 | 78 | 7,038 |
| Mexican | 14 | 72 | 8,698 |
| American | 12 | 61 | 7,978 |
| Italian | 9 | 56 | 6,863 |
| Breakfast & Brunch | 9 | 76 | 6,319 |
| Chinese | 8 | 87 | 3,892 |
| Seafood | 8 | 69 | 4,349 |
| Asian | 7 | 75 | 2,368 |
| French | 7 | 39 | 2,696 |
| Eastern European | 6 | 70 | 5,000 |
| Burgers | 6 | 30 | 5,093 |
| Korean | 5 | 72 | 1,759 |
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.
- Fusion Sushi & TeaGreenpoint · 44 ratings80
- Peek InnGreenpoint · 51 ratings80
- MALAVITAGreenpoint · 72 ratings79
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.
- WestlightGreenpoint · 3,673 ratings19
- Peter Pan Donut & Pastry ShopGreenpoint · 3,249 ratings81
- Five LeavesGreenpoint · 2,634 ratings58
- KarczmaGreenpoint · 2,624 ratings78
- OxomocoGreenpoint · 2,503 ratings71
- Taqueria RamirezGreenpoint · 2,050 ratings90
- Forma Pasta FactoryGreenpoint · 2,012 ratings78
- Paulie Gee's Slice ShopGreenpoint · 1,957 ratings62
- Rule of ThirdsGreenpoint · 1,713 ratings37
- Me and Paul’sGreenpoint · 1,712 ratings65
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.
- 116Outdoor seating
- 152Deliver
- 211Do takeout
- 93Take reservations
- 102Vegetarian options
- 124Good for kids
- 104Work for groups
- 26Allow dogs