✦ Prospect Heights, counted
Prospect Heights by the numbers.
Every restaurant we track in Prospect Heights, 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
78% 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 14 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. Prospect Heights is 4.5× more Thai 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 41; the median $$$$ place scores 68. Four dollar signs buys you 27 points — on a scale where the gap between #1 and #50 in a single town is bigger than that.
| Price | Places | Median Sweet Score | Median ratings |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ | 28 | 41 | 296 |
| $$ | 63 | 62 | 382 |
| $$$ | 3 | 37 | 1,153 |
| $$$$ | 2 | 68 | 383 |
The categories
What this region is made of
Every place belongs to every category it earned, so these add up to more than 107. 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 | 25 | 41 | 13,777 |
| Bar & Grill | 18 | 45 | 8,444 |
| Bakery | 11 | 66 | 7,195 |
| American | 10 | 67 | 11,084 |
| Dessert | 9 | 53 | 5,693 |
| Pizza | 6 | 64 | 1,865 |
| Mexican | 6 | 26 | 5,258 |
| Breakfast & Brunch | 6 | 32 | 2,331 |
| Japanese | 6 | 77 | 3,062 |
| Thai | 5 | 57 | 2,466 |
| Mediterranean | 4 | 84 | 2,262 |
| Indian | 4 | 62 | 2,338 |
| Sushi | 4 | 65 | 868 |
| Asian | 3 | 53 | 836 |
| Chinese | 3 | 86 | 439 |
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.
- McDonald'sProspect Heights · 3,727 ratings13
- Sweet ChickProspect Heights · 3,109 ratings58
- Burrito Bar & KitchenProspect Heights · 2,777 ratings62
- Tom’s RestaurantProspect Heights · 2,734 ratings67
- Ample Hills CreameryProspect Heights · 1,987 ratings80
- Morgan's Brooklyn BarbecueProspect Heights · 1,787 ratings27
- OzakayaProspect Heights · 1,696 ratings85
- Cheryl's Global SoulProspect Heights · 1,654 ratings67
- Doughnut PlantProspect Heights · 1,643 ratings66
- Shane's BrooklynProspect Heights · 1,352 ratings57
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.
- 48Outdoor seating
- 76Deliver
- 97Do takeout
- 40Take reservations
- 44Vegetarian options
- 64Good for kids
- 45Work for groups
- 8Allow dogs