Drunk Food Index June 2017

Overview

What has better late night drunk food? Las Vegas or LA? How does Buffalo, New York compare to New York, New York? Pizza vs. Burgers? We finally have the answers!

This is my first analysis of late night drunk food. I used Yelp data to analyze all the cheap restaurants open at 1:15 AM, Saturday, May 20th. You can all all the analysis details in the About page.

The top 5 cities with the most late night drunk food restaurants are probably no surprise: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas and Toronto; North America's 4 largest metropolises and the largest party city.

What about smaller cities? I looked at how many drunk food restaurants are open compared to each city's population. The top 4 are tourist spots: Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando and Tampa. It gets interesting after that: Cincinnati and Buffalo. Who knew?

There's also the question of what to eat? It's a battle between Pizza vs. American for top spot in most cities, with American usually coming in first. However, once you remove fast food chains from the equation, the food diversity opens up. For example, the top food category for independent restaurants in Boston is Asian. The biggest chain restaurant is Taco Bell by a mile, but this could also reflect poor store hour data for other chains in Yelp.

Cities

This is a summary of the cities studied.

Rank	City	Num Restaurants	Num Restaurants Per 10k Population	Top Food
1	Albuquerque	59	1.1	American
2	Atlanta	162	3.7	American
3	Baltimore	120	1.9	American
4	Birmingham	33	1.6	American
5	Boston	127	1.9	Pizza
6	Buffalo	103	4.0	American
7	Calgary	106	1.0	American
8	Charlotte	96	1.2	American
9	Chicago	562	2.1	American
10	Cincinnati	124	4.2	American
11	Cleveland	71	1.8	American
12	Columbus	136	1.6	American
13	Dallas	153	1.2	American
14	Denver	197	2.9	American
15	Detroit	104	1.5	American
16	Edmonton	100	1.2	American
17	Hamilton	30	0.6	Pizza
18	Honolulu	64	1.9	American
19	Houston	211	0.9	American
20	Indianapolis	124	1.5	American
21	Jacksonville	94	1.1	American
22	Kansas City	111	2.3	American
23	Las Vegas	531	9.1	American
24	Los Angeles	617	1.5	American
25	Louisville	116	1.9	American
26	Memphis	61	0.9	American
27	Miami	341	7.7	American
28	Milwaukee	87	1.4	American
29	Minneapolis	113	2.7	Pizza
30	Montreal	113	0.7	American
31	Nashville	83	1.2	American
32	New York	1035	1.2	American
33	Oakland	60	1.4	American
34	Oklahoma City	77	1.2	American
35	Orlando	184	6.8	American
36	Ottawa	85	1.0	Pizza
37	Philadelphia	195	1.2	American
38	Phoenix	334	2.1	American
39	Pittsburgh	107	3.5	American
40	Portland	130	2.1	Mexican
41	Providence	47	2.6	Pizza
42	Quebec City	15	0.3	American
43	Raleigh	54	1.0	American
44	Richmond	84	3.8	American
45	Sacramento	92	1.9	American
46	Salt Lake City	29	1.5	American
47	San Antonio	201	1.4	American
48	San Diego	256	1.8	Mexican
49	San Francisco	195	2.3	Pizza
50	San Jose	134	1.3	American
51	Seattle	120	1.8	American
52	St. Louis	120	3.8	American
53	Tampa	204	5.8	American
54	Toronto	403	1.5	American
55	Vancouver	162	2.7	American
56	Washington	270	4.0	American
57	Winnipeg	36	0.5	Pizza

Top Franchises

These are the top franchises open late across all major cities.