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Top 100 Places To Eat In United States In 2016, According To Yelp

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Of the top 100 places in eat in the entire United States of America, nearly 50 percent are located in California, according to Yelp.

Three restaurants in Chicago make the cut.

"Yelp's list of Top 100 Places to Eat in the U.S. for 2016 honors businesses that rank so highly in the Yelp community's opinion that they have earned the status of "must try within this lifetime," according to a Yelp blog post.

The three Chicago restaurants on the list are:

No. 19 Alinea, 1723 N Halsted St. (Temporarily closed for remodeling.)

No. 38 Girl And The Goat, 809 West Randolph.

No. 98 Bavette's Bar & Boeuf, 218 W Kinzie St.

The Girl And The Goat and Bavette's will cost at least $100 for a dinner for two. Alinea, over $200.

A total of 46 restaurants on the Yelp list are located in California. Hawaii comes in at No. 2 with 10, followed by New York with eight.

The top 10:

1. Porto's Bakery & Cafe, Burbank, CA

2. Cheese Board Pizza, Berkeley, CA

3. Paseo, Seattle, WA

4. Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que, Kansas City, KS

5. TKB Bakery & Deli, Indio, CA

6. Gary Danko, San Francisco, CA

7. The Morrison, Los Angeles, CA

8. Mama D's Italian Kitchen, Newport Beach, CA

9. Franklin Barbecue, Austin, TX

10. Marukame Udon, Honolulu, HI

The Midwest is woefully underrepresented on the list.

The closest restaurants to Chicago on the list are in St. Louis, which has three.

18. Bogart's Smokehouse
29. Pappy's Smokehouse
96. Blues City Deli

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