✦ Rockville Centre, counted
Rockville Centre by the numbers.
Every restaurant we track in Rockville Centre, Nassau — 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
80% of every place we track lands between 4.0 and 4.7 stars. The most common score of all is 4.4 — that badge is worn by 17 different restaurants. A number that everybody has is not information. The Sweet Score spreads the same places across 17 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. Rockville Centre is 2.3× more Sushi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ | 23 | 58 | 182 |
| $$ | 59 | 60 | 439 |
| $$$ | 5 | 72 | 1,928 |
The categories
What this region is made of
Every place belongs to every category it earned, so these add up to more than 108. 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 | 15 | 53 | 5,760 |
| Italian | 13 | 54 | 3,942 |
| Deli | 11 | 60 | 2,126 |
| Bar & Grill | 11 | 42 | 5,094 |
| Dessert | 9 | 60 | 1,794 |
| Bakery | 9 | 60 | 4,096 |
| Japanese | 9 | 63 | 6,456 |
| Mexican | 8 | 64 | 7,387 |
| Pizza | 8 | 46 | 3,487 |
| Sushi | 6 | 60 | 4,485 |
| Seafood | 6 | 55 | 11,512 |
| American | 6 | 39 | 2,494 |
| Burgers | 5 | 47 | 4,626 |
| Breakfast & Brunch | 5 | 70 | 6,516 |
| Latin | 4 | 75 | 25,990 |
| Chinese | 4 | 71 | 2,457 |
| Fast Food | 3 | 62 | 1,713 |
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.
- TETE-A-TETE CAFETERIARockville Centre · 60 ratings86
- YAAAS TEA Rockville CentreRockville Centre · 57 ratings82
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.
- Mojo RVCRockville Centre · 13,725 ratings96
- Pappa GalloRockville Centre · 12,008 ratings95
- The PantryRockville Centre · 3,128 ratings75
- Bonefish GrillRockville Centre · 3,081 ratings53
- Golden Reef DinerRockville Centre · 2,421 ratings23
- Cabo RVCRockville Centre · 2,308 ratings25
- Bigelow's New England Fried ClamsRockville Centre · 2,085 ratings93
- Mesita Rockville CentreRockville Centre · 1,990 ratings64
- Wild GingerRockville Centre · 1,966 ratings79
- Red Crab Juicy SeafoodRockville Centre · 1,928 ratings51
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.
- 36Outdoor seating
- 87Deliver
- 104Do takeout
- 45Take reservations
- 43Vegetarian options
- 76Good for kids
- 59Work for groups
- 2Allow dogs