Only here

Only one kitchen we read does this

Read from the menus of 40 of the town’s 66 kitchens, every one that publishes a menu we could read · 1226 dishes · 15 kitchens read by eye, 25 by script · menus read 2026-09-10 How we read them

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

All of them. The pillar picks five of these out and writes them up; this is the complete alphabetical list the pick was made from, in three boards.

Proteins

23 of the 24proteins we read appear on a single kitchen’s menu, in alphabetical order. That is a fact about 40 menus, not about the town.

Other ingredients at one kitchen

59 of 187 non-protein ingredients we read at a single kitchen, in alphabetical order. That is a fact about 40 menus, not about the town.

Dish ideas at one kitchen

15 of the 15 dish ideas we read with two or more plates, all at a single kitchen, in alphabetical order. That is a fact about 40 menus, not about the town.