2 Best Foodie Cities In Maryland On WalletHub’s 2019 List

BALTIMORE, MD — If you love food and consider yourself a foodie, Maryland is a good place to be, according to a new report by WalletHub. The personal finance website ranked two Maryland cities among the top foodie destinations in the country — there's the great seafood, of course, along with steakhouses, barbecue and various ethnic eateries.

The Best Foodie Cities in America list for 2019 compared more than 180 of the largest U.S. cities across 30 key metrics of foodie-friendliness, ranging from restaurants per capita, to the number of local cooking schools, to the presence of Michelin-starred restaurants.

Each relevant metric was listed with its corresponding weight, and the cities were subsequently graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing maximum food-friendliness.

Baltimore finished as the top ranked foodie city in our state, and was 59th on the overall list.

Portland, Oregon, ranked as the best foodie city in the country, according to WalletHub, followed by New York and Miami. San Francisco finished fourth and Los Angeles landed at fifth.

For people on the quest for foodie-friendliness, Pearl City, Hawaii, isn’t the place for you. The city finished dead-last in the rankings, with Juneau, Arkansas and Jackson, Mississippi rounding out the bottom three.

Here's how cities in Maryland ranked:

• Baltimore: 59th
• Columbia: 153rd

The two cities tied for fourth-worst nationally for the ratio of full-service restaurants to fast-food franchises.

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