✦ Valley Stream, counted
Valley Stream by the numbers.
Every restaurant we track in Valley Stream, 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
60% of every place we track lands between 4.0 and 4.7 stars. The most common score of all is 4.1 — that badge is worn by 17 different restaurants. A number that everybody has is not information. The Sweet Score spreads the same places across 20 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. Valley Stream is 3.9× more Salads 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ | 59 | 40 | 181 |
| $$ | 40 | 40 | 278 |
| $$$ | 3 | 33 | 412 |
The categories
What this region is made of
Every place belongs to every category it earned, so these add up to more than 142. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deli | 19 | 61 | 2,236 |
| Dessert | 15 | 30 | 7,724 |
| Coffee | 15 | 31 | 5,419 |
| Chinese | 13 | 43 | 3,886 |
| Pizza | 13 | 36 | 7,483 |
| Bakery | 12 | 39 | 2,963 |
| American | 9 | 19 | 10,461 |
| Fast Food | 9 | 15 | 8,364 |
| Seafood | 8 | 26 | 13,721 |
| Bar & Grill | 8 | 44 | 4,897 |
| Italian | 8 | 40 | 6,884 |
| Burgers | 8 | 27 | 9,504 |
| Halal | 7 | 32 | 1,291 |
| Caribbean | 5 | 39 | 557 |
| Greek | 5 | 18 | 1,600 |
| Japanese | 5 | 36 | 2,504 |
| Indian | 5 | 21 | 1,475 |
| Mexican | 5 | 42 | 2,248 |
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.
- Yoyo ChickenValley Stream · 105 ratings87
- Pizza StationValley Stream · 70 ratings85
- Komfort KocktailsValley Stream · 46 ratings80
- I Love Nutrition , Protein Shakes.Healthy inside, happy outsideValley Stream · 27 ratings79
- Palm GrillValley Stream · 44 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.
- Red LobsterValley Stream · 5,193 ratings11
- Sonic Drive-InValley Stream · 4,436 ratings32
- 32 NorthValley Stream · 4,183 ratings96
- TGI FridaysValley Stream · 3,520 ratings10
- Olive Garden Italian RestaurantValley Stream · 3,466 ratings7
- IHOPValley Stream · 3,235 ratings8
- Buffalo Wild WingsValley Stream · 3,089 ratings7
- BJ's Restaurant & BrewhouseValley Stream · 2,507 ratings15
- Applebee's Grill + BarValley Stream · 2,200 ratings11
- McDonald'sValley Stream · 1,820 ratings10
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.
- 12Outdoor seating
- 117Deliver
- 135Do takeout
- 37Take reservations
- 35Vegetarian options
- 107Good for kids
- 60Work for groups
- 3Allow dogs