Indianapolis Has Country's Lowest Avg. Beer, Wine Price: Report

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — From personal experience, Indianapolis has some pretty tasty dining options. Whether it's food from a bar, bakery, restaurant or food truck, there's plenty outstanding options to choose from, including drinks. While personal finance website WalletHub.com ranked Indianapolis number 53 on its list of the "2018 Best Foodie Cities In America," Indianapolis ranked number one for the lowest average beer and wine price out of nearly 200 U.S. cities. Now that's something to 'cheers' about!

Indianapolis beat several cities including Charlotte, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee, as the Circle City's overall score is 43.48, in addition to ranking 14 for affordability and 78 for diversity, accessibility and quality.

Portland was ranked the number one best and cheapest foodie scene in the U.S. by WalletHub.com, with San Francisco, Miami, New York, and Los Angeles rounding out the top five.

Using metrics that break down various aspects of affordability as well as diversity, accessibility, and quality, WalletHub.com's expert foodie panel examined 182 of the most populated U.S. cities to determine which had the best food scene.

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WalletHub.com's point-based ranking for affordability (with a max of 30 points available) considered metrics like the cost of groceries, access and affordability of high-quality restaurants, the cost of meals at restaurants, taxes for sales, restaurants, and food, and the average price for beer and wine.

The ranking for diversity, accessibility, and quality was weighted a bit more heavily (with a max of 70 points available). For that dimension, WalletHub.com's experts considered metrics such as restaurants per capita, the ratio of full service restaurants to fast food establishments, restaurants diversity, Yelp's average rankings, food trucks per capita, farmers markets programs, breweries per capita, ice cream shops per capita, coffee and tea shops per capita, gourmet specialty food stores per capita, butcher shops, kitchen supplies, food festivals, cooking schools, and more.

To review the full report, visit WalletHub.com.

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