Quote Originally Posted by Celebrator View Post
... I came home and looked at Tulsa's UrbanSpoon.com Top 100 list of restaurants ... How do you explain this? Are the restaurant scenes that much different in these two cities?
Urban spoon rankings are pretty hit and miss. Tastes vary and they don't really attempt to factor individual tastes into rankings (since you can only as so much of social rankings before no one would do it). Sampling size can also be an issue, I have seen good places with only a few to a dozen ratings, if some are people who caught it at the worst time of day or a server having a bad day can totally screw the results. Also ratings are affected by expectations, a chain has lower expectations so don't have to live up to as much to get a fair/good, verses a great place really has to deliver to that person that single or every time. People tend to report bad or under-their-expected ratings much more than positive or great ratings.