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The city where the pizza is rated with the highest marks is Calgary, AB. Those Calgarians really like their pizza. Not far behind are the Torontonians.

Here is the list with the average rating of pizza restaurants, on a scale of 1 to 5. 1 meaning poor, 5 excellent.

Calgary, AB : 4.06
Toronto, ON : 4.02
Vancouver, BC : 3.99
Edmonton, AB : 3.95
Mississauga, ON : 3.91
Montreal, QC : 3.86
Winnipeg, MB : 3.69
London, ON : 3.65
Surrey, BC : 3.47
Hamilton, ON : 3.40
Canadian Average for Pizza Restaurants: 3.86

As for the highest rated Café Cities?

Well, our intuition is backed up by the numbers:

Vancouver beats Montreal by a small margin.

Vancouver, BC : 4.05
Montreal, QC : 3.96
Edmonton, AB : 3.83
Calgary, AB : 3.66
Toronto, ON : 3.65
Canadian Average for Cafés: 3.87

As to the Bakeries, here the places are switched.

Montreal reigns supreme as the bakery capital of Canada

with the rest following far behind.

Montreal, QC : 4.57
Scarborough, ON : 4.17
Calgary, AB : 4.07
Toronto, ON : 3.97
Mississauga, ON : 3.97
North york, ON : 3.92
Vancouver, BC : 3.88
Canadian Average for Bakeries: 4.02

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Here at FoodPages.ca we sometimes crunch numbers to discover some interesting facts.

One of them is finding where the average review score for restaurants is highest in Canada. In short, where, according to popular perception, the experience of eating out at a restaurant is most positive.

Here are the top 5 major cities according to their rating score:

1. Montreal, QC : 4.39707830188679 Average: Excellent
2. Quebec, QC : 3.98918990206186 Average: Very Good
3. Windsor, ON : 3.98760069264069 Average: Very Good
4. North Vancouver, BC : 3.95506916791045 Average: Very Good
5. Laval, QC : 3.92178105016723 Average: Very Good

1. Montreal, QC : 4.39707830188679
2. QuÉbec, QC : 3.98918990206186
3. Windsor, ON : 3.98760069264069
4. North Vancouver, BC : 3.95506916791045
5. Laval, QC : 3.92178105016723
6. Vancouver, BC : 3.9074117294197
7. Toronto, ON : 3.8565312573991
8. Etobicoke, ON : 3.85424839175258
9. Edmonton, AB : 3.8485053607925
10. Mississauga, ON : 3.84627418632856
11. Scarborough, ON : 3.82888100175439
12. Gatineau, QC : 3.77261188530466
13. Winnipeg, MB : 3.76617555130785
14. Victoria, BC : 3.75690172327044
15. Burnaby, BC : 3.74273490228013
16. Brampton, ON : 3.74264020190024
17. Calgary, AB : 3.74076557637795
18. North York, ON : 3.71873412562814
19. Richmond, BC : 3.71619880779944
20. London, ON : 3.69470439740821
21. Surrey, BC : 3.6684504971537
22. Markham, ON : 3.66278830152672
23. Saskatoon, SK : 3.56741015679443
24. Ottawa, ON : 3.51728564469179
25. Halifax, NS : 3.33841645272206
26. Hamilton, ON : 3.28426118354431

*Canadian Average: 3.77681423740223

Thanks

Bernie

here is the latest such incident: http://bistrorestaurantbar.foodpages.ca/?review=175698

Dear foodpages.ca I posted a review about Ruby Moon in thunder bay. The owner threatening to sue me for defimation if I do not remove it. There is no way for me to remove it. Will you please remove this post ASAP, please. Thanks. Hog 2011-06-05 16:42:00 The food we ordered was made incorrectly. I returned it and another was brought to the table. It was STILL wrong. It said there would be sun-dried tomatoes and roasted zucchini in my wrap. There were no tomatoes and the zucchini was raw – who eats zucchini raw?! I brought it to the attention of the staff and the plate a quickly removed from my hands and I was rudely told they will not be making me a replacement or anything else. I was left sitting there lunch-less and in shock at the abrupt rudeness! It was a HORRIBLE experience. My lunch hour break was ruined and I left hungry. Worst customer service I have even experienced in my life.

A few things worth noting here:

• All reviews on foodpages.ca are anonymous. There is no way to personally identify a reviewer
• All reviews on foodpages.ca are protected under the free speech act. While we do moderate the review content for poor taste in choice of words, we have no intention of moderating criticism
• We have a right to be critical of eating establishments we patronize. Some of us are opinionated, otherwise we would not write reviews. And when we do, we are fully within our rights to do so.

In closing, FoodPages will neither bow to pressure nor sell out like some other review sites to sing only praises to businesses that pay. The only thing that makes our site stand appart from the rest is our impartiality.

Keep on reviewing, its a free world!

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Same as locating the two animals mentioned in the title of this post, it is sometimes hard to find the best place to dine.

The reason is simple. The current jungle of review sites, blogs and recommendation engines is mind boggling. There are sites out there which cross back and forth between objectivity and subjectivity, others who write their own reviews, others who get paid for the types of reviews they post, others who simply grab and post random reviews taken from other sites and so on..

In the garden of FoodPages you will not just find a review or a recommendation, but a good feel of the place you are thinking of visiting. In many cases on foodpages you will also find menus, pictures, notices, specials, coupons and much more for you to review before you make up your mind. Our moto is “Better information is the key to eating better.” and we follow this moto in anything we do with the foodpages portal.

As to the puzzle we left for you to solve… here is a hint.

The bird you must be looking for in the painting, looks a little bit like this:

As to the cat… oh well..

Think about where a cat would usually sit in a garden like this.