Well you say this isn't Michelin Star dining but Per Se and Eleven Madison Park are on the list too so it seems to be to be all over the place.

Why does anyone take Yelp seriously? I find the posts to be mostly whiney millenials who like to say extremely nasty things about a restaurant if the bus boy looks at them strangely. :rolleyes:

Cochon Butcher in New Orleans is good, but it's the NOLA representative on this Top 100 list???

How amusing.

Maybe it depends on the city and the particular restaurants. San Diego's listings don't seem too bad to me, for instance. Then again, I use Yelp mostly to find businesses and don't really pay too much attention to the reviews unless the business scores less than 4/5 or so.

The methodology is interesting, and may explain some of the quirks.

The localization may end up penalizing especially east coast cities with multiple counties in the metro area. DC restaurants would exclude all the MD & VA residents who dine in the district; Manhattan restaurants would exclude workers from the other boroughs and NJ...

County or country?

the only values i have found in yelp is the accuracy of the address, and the phone number of the place.

That depends how localization works, as, i.e., The French Laundry is on the list, but very few Yelp diners would live within the same city, or even county, as the restaurant. However, a substantial percentage would live within 60 miles. And most of these would have a 94xxx zip code (same as the restaurant).

To localize the list, only reviews written by users whose profiles list their home location as within the reviewed businesses’ country were factored into the ranking.

Why is everyone reading county?

You're assuming we can read. :p

I've been a regular Yelp user & contributor for several years and I've only been to one of these restaurants. Ironically the lowest on the list (#100). And that one restaurant cemented for me my current method of using Yelp: I look for businesses that are well reviewed on Yelp but not too well reviewed. A restaurant with a few dozen reviews and a strong average? Probably a solid place. A restaurant with thousands of raves? That's past the tipping point where crowd sourcing becomes groupthink.

Interesting. Past Yelp Top 100s seemed more exciting. I've been to about a dozen on this list. While some were deserving, some definitely were not. But its another list to review and there are a couple spots that I want to try that I've never heard of.

Yelp's Top 100- I would think the list would be more useful as a reference for restaurants to avoid than as a list of restaurants I'd want to patronize. Granted both types of restaurants are bound to be on the list, but if one were to choose randomly, the likelihood of a miss would be much greater than the chance of finding a great restaurant.

The problem with this list, and any put together from public ratings, is that it's more aligned with "exceeded expectations of the clientele" than "best". Check triapadvisor - you'll see very, very good Holiday Inn Expresses and Sheraton's at the top sometimes. They're very good for the price, and greatly exceed the norm for folks who stay there. But they're not Four Season's.

But if you're looking for a very good inexpensive restaurant, it's not a bad list to review. But food preferences vary so much, even the best list will be hit-or-miss for each person.

Atlanta--in fact all of Georgia--has only one place on the list, and it's a cheapo little lunch spot in Midtown. Whatta joke. Seems to me someone at Yelp HQ needed to spend a little more time composing this list and adjusting criteria.