If anyone’s looking for an assessment of data quality here, I can confirm that for a few small to mid-sized US cities I’ve lived in or am familiar with, this does a remarkable job of picking out dishes that are truly distinctive, locally considered one of “our things”, and generally pretty damn good if you like the sort of dish it is.
Huh, nothing on there, yeah, searching on DDG I see a few recipes mixed in with other dishes that share some words, no Wikipedia page, limited info about what’s up with it. Looks like a San Francisco thing, maybe?