✦ Huntington, counted

Huntington by the numbers.

Every restaurant we track in Huntington, 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.

Median Sweet Scoreacross 178 scored places

The reason this site exists

Star averages can't tell anyone apart

77% 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 36 different restaurants. A number that everybody has is not information. The Sweet Score spreads the same places across 18 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. Huntington is 4.2× more Candy & Chocolate 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 58; the median $$$$ place scores 76. Four dollar signs buys you 18 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
$	51	58	171
$$	79	64	278
$$$	11	66	432
$$$$	2	76	1,190

The categories

What this region is made of

Every place belongs to every category it earned, so these add up to more than 181. 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
Coffee	23	58	7,289
Italian	21	62	7,836
Dessert	21	46	4,475
Deli	17	64	2,485
Japanese	15	64	4,191
Breakfast & Brunch	15	58	11,107
Bar & Grill	14	41	3,357
Pizza	14	58	5,183
Mexican	12	68	5,601
Bakery	12	59	4,867
American	12	62	7,245
Sushi	10	56	4,828
Latin	9	70	2,440
Fast Food	8	44	4,105
Chinese	8	47	1,353
Asian	8	60	2,386
Burgers	6	54	4,564
Steakhouse	5	70	4,741

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.

Every filter →