BY REBECCA KUZINS
ALONG WITH BEING THE HOME OF THE ROSE BOWL, CALTECH AND CRAFTSMAN BUNGALOWS, PASADENA CAN ALSO CLAIM BRAGGING RIGHTS TO BEING A LEADER IN ANOTHER CULTURAL PHENOMENON: MANY RESIDENTS, RESTAURATEURS AND OTHERS MAINTAIN PASADENA HAS THE MOST RESTAURANTS PER CAPITA OF ANY CITY IN THE UNITED STATES. The Pasadena Weekly wondered if this claim was true, or merely the stuff of urban legend. So we compared data from Pasadena with other parts of the country and concluded that the Crown City, with almost 49 eateries per 10,000 residents, or almost 124 dining establishments per 10,000 households, can legitimately boast it is the nation’s most restaurant-filled city. We based these figures on two counts of restaurants in major metro areas — neither of which listed Pasadena. In 2012, according to The Huffington Post, Trulia, an online real estate site, used data from the 2010 US Census to find the 10 cities with the largest number of restaurants per 10,000 households. San Francisco led the pack by a large margin, with 39.3 eateries per 10,000 households. This January, The Huffington Post reported the results of another survey conducted by NPD Group, a market research firm that annually counts the 15 metropolitan areas with the most restaurants per 10,000 residents. The winner was Juneau, Alaska, with 36 restaurants Since Pasadena was a no-show on both lists, the Weekly used the formula employed by the two —CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
DINING GUIDE 2013 PASADENA WEEKLY
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