Americans love to eat out, on recent surveys,the results showed that 56% of the population dines at a restaurant, get take out or have a meal delivered 2 to 3 times a week, since i started my new education in data science i asked myself, what are the cities in the US that have the most mexican restaurants , in my case i love mexican food, so it was something i wanted to dig into.

i sourced a dataset that has over 77,000 records of restaurants across the US(in case you want to see the dataset you can find it here), that sold mexican food, so i narrowed down my search and here are the winners.

These graphs describe the top 10 cities and the quantity of restaurants in each of them

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Here is a Different perspective of the results

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So we got:

  • San diego CA, with 1,924 restaurants WOW
  • Los Angeles CA, with 1,603
  • Chicago IL, with 1,186
  • San Francisco CA, with 1,120
  • New York NY, with 1,085
  • Houston TX, with 838
  • Brooklyn NY with 711
  • Las Vegas NV, with 653
  • Portland ME, with 571 (i didn’t expect this city to be top 10!)
  • Phoenix AZ, in the last place with 525**