Further Top 100 Analysis: The Race Card

One more note about the Chron’s Top 100: Plebiscite weighed in today with the charge that it was a sort of racist move on Michael Bauer’s part to cut out a relatively high percentage of Asian restaurants, and not include more authentic Asian places such as the ones you’ll find in Chinatown and the Richmond:

There are, what, twenty restaurants cut. Five of the twenty are Asian. A full quarter! That leaves maybe eight Asians in the Top 100 (1) restaurants in the Bay Area.

And for what reason? So we can include the $14 carnitas from Nopalito? Two more pizza places? I mean, honestly…

It’s also worth pointing out that Nopalito is the only Mexican restaurant listed in the Top 100. There’s one other “Latin American” joint, Albany’s Fonda. We’re not going to call racism, but that does seem like disproportionately low Mexican and Latino representation. Our own site lists 163 Mexican restaurants in the city. Surely more than one of them is worth including. For comparison’s sake, we list 243 Italian places in the city, of which 11 made the cut.

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Further Top 100 Analysis: The Race Card