✦ Two Bridges, counted
Two Bridges by the numbers.
Every restaurant we track in Two Bridges, Manhattan — 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
74% 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 18 different restaurants. A number that everybody has is not information. The Sweet Score spreads the same places across 18 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. Two Bridges is 10.6× more Vietnamese 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 56; the median $$$$ place scores 48. Four dollar signs buys you -8 points — on a scale where the gap between #1 and #50 in a single town is bigger than that.
| Price | Places | Median Sweet Score | Median ratings |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ | 49 | 56 | 236 |
| $$ | 38 | 47 | 390 |
| $$$ | 4 | 45 | 220 |
| $$$$ | 2 | 48 | 548 |
The categories
What this region is made of
Every place belongs to every category it earned, so these add up to more than 106. 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 | 23 | 48 | 6,858 |
| Chinese | 20 | 64 | 21,419 |
| Coffee | 13 | 47 | 4,510 |
| Asian | 11 | 73 | 10,479 |
| Bakery | 8 | 61 | 1,650 |
| Deli | 7 | 44 | 794 |
| American | 6 | 48 | 2,019 |
| Dessert | 6 | 59 | 1,662 |
| Vietnamese | 5 | 20 | 3,930 |
| Pizza | 4 | 58 | 5,609 |
| Japanese | 3 | 82 | 2,099 |
| Italian | 3 | 37 | 898 |
| Seafood | 3 | 59 | 1,799 |
| Thai | 3 | 74 | 1,021 |
| Breakfast & Brunch | 3 | 44 | 990 |
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.
- Lamar's Bagel ExpressTwo Bridges · 202 ratings94
- Sake Bar AsokoTwo Bridges · 130 ratings92
- David's BarTwo Bridges · 150 ratings92
- BolzotTwo Bridges · 74 ratings91
- Julia Jean's Ice CreamTwo Bridges · 106 ratings89
- Cellar 36Two Bridges · 109 ratings80
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.
- Scarr's PizzaTwo Bridges · 4,882 ratings57
- Wah Fung No.1 Fast FoodTwo Bridges · 3,616 ratings76
- 99 Favor TasteTwo Bridges · 3,244 ratings36
- Shu Jiao Fu ZhouTwo Bridges · 3,198 ratings84
- Golden DinerTwo Bridges · 3,174 ratings68
- Kiki'sTwo Bridges · 2,554 ratings41
- Jajaja MexicanaTwo Bridges · 2,215 ratings72
- Wu's Wonton KingTwo Bridges · 1,698 ratings28
- KopitiamTwo Bridges · 1,612 ratings18
- Super TasteTwo Bridges · 1,599 ratings82
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.
- 33Outdoor seating
- 63Deliver
- 83Do takeout
- 42Take reservations
- 36Vegetarian options
- 44Good for kids
- 32Work for groups
- 4Allow dogs