Ingredient

Chili

Five of the kitchens we read put chili on the menu, on five plates. Three of them turn up under appetizer, and the shape it takes most often is the salad, on one.

From 40 menus · chili is on 5 plates · How we read them

For the curious: the data views

Some of these were read by a script, not a person — those chips have a hollow dot. About the method →

How it comes

The forms it turns up in, most first.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. All pepper

Where on the menu

The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. All pepper

How it's cooked

How the kitchens cook it, counting the word on the component as well as the plate.

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Travels with

What shares a plate with it, counted inside a course and never across one. A partner marked distinctive turns up together far more often than chance.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. All pepper

Dishes

Our reading of the menu turns up cracker, fruit and cod.

Our reading of the menu lists: vegetable, brioche, tartar.

Our reading of the menu lists broiled, crumbled and crab.

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Our reading of the menu turns up braised, linguine and evoo.

Our reading of the menu lists: patty, chip, pickle.

Correct a plate here

In the family

Where it sits in the ingredient lexicon.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. All pepper

Where on the island

The 5 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.

Chili at 5 kitchens across 3 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Lower Midtown2inland
Uptown1inland
Day-trips ring2inland