Here at Food & Dining Magazine, we receive a great many press releases via e-mail. I customarily file them by point of origin, with the ones coming from Dubai, Paris and Las Vegas dispatched immediately into the bottomless electronic abyss.
Conversely those releases of a local nature merit closer scrutiny, and while not all of them are worthy, they’re helpful far more often than not.
Last week an e-mail arrived from ApartmentAdvisor.
ApartmentAdvisor was founded by the folks who brought you TripAdvisor and CarGurus and looks to bring transparency to the process of searching for your next apartment. ApartmentAdvisor won’t just assist you in finding an apartment but will help you find the right apartment. ApartmentAdvisor is based in Cambridge, MA.
In the accompanying text, ApartmentAdvisor offered new criteria for the ever-popular “best of” list, combining foodies, restaurants and rent prices in one survey.
I’ll permit ApartmentAdvisor to speak for itself. By the way, Louisville finished first, a ranking obvious to those of us who follow the food and dining scene hereabouts, but perhaps less apparent from the standpoint of “budget-friendly rent prices,” an assertion that some area diners might find eye-opening.
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ApartmentAdvisor Reveals America’s Best Foodie Cities: Amazing Cuisine and Palatable Rent Prices Make These Ten Cities Perfect for Food Lovers
ApartmentAdvisor (www.apartmentadvisor.com), the apartment search platform, today revealed its list of Best Foodie Cities, with Louisville, KY, Albuquerque, NM, and Tulsa, OK earning the top three spots. The list highlights cities with culinary offerings that rival better-known food capitals, but with budget-friendly rent prices that allow for more frequent dining out.
The company’s top ten picks were determined by a variety of factors, including the number of restaurants per capita with at least a four-star rating on Yelp, diversity of cuisine, and access to food halls or specialty markets. In addition, ApartmentAdvisor editors factored rent prices, targeting cities with a median rent to median income ratio of 25% or lower to accommodate a dining out budget.
Top Ten Best Foodie Cities for Renters:
- Louisville, KY
- Albuquerque, NM
- Tulsa, OK
- Portland, OR
- Columbus, OH
- Kansas City, MO
- Indianapolis, IN
- Virginia Beach, VA
- Jacksonville, FL
- Raleigh, NC
More information on each of these cities and their exciting food scenes can be found in the Best Foodie Cities report.
