Cincinnati Cracks WalletHub's Top 10 Cities for Foodies

With Oct. 16 being World Food Day and nearly a third of the U.S. food dollar being spent on restaurant services, the personal finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2015’s Best and Worst Foodie Cities for Your Wallet.

To find the most affordable culinary scenes in the U.S., WalletHub analyzed the 150 most populated cities across 18 key metrics, ranging from the cost of groceries to the number of restaurants per capita.

Best Foodie Cities for Your Wallet
1 Portland, OR
2 Orlando, FL
3 San Francisco, CA
4 Oakland, CA
5 Seattle, WA
6 Cincinnati, OH
7 Santa Rosa, CA
8 Tampa, FL
9 Rochester, NY
10 Miami, FL

Worst Foodie Cities for Your Wallet
141 Fayetteville, NC
142 Ontario, CA
143 Columbus, GA
144 Montgomery, AL
145 Shreveport, LA
146 Peoria, AZ
147 Jackson, MS
148 Fontana, CA
149 North Las Vegas, NV
150 Moreno Valley, CA

Interesting Stat: The number of grocery stores per capita is 11 times higher in Cincinnati than in Santa Clarita, Calif.