Ranked like you've never seen restaurants ranked before.

By Amy Traverso & Jolyon Helterman

It's a simple question: "Where should we go for dinner?" Yet ask it and brace for a cacophony of opinions, as every magazine, newspaper, and user-generated-review website vies to serve as your gastronomic guru. Wouldn't it be nice if there were a way to pull it all together, to herd that surfeit of recommendations into one single, convenient, yet statistically meaningful index? To have a Metacritic, of sorts, for local grub? We thought so, too.

Presenting The Ultimate Ranking of Hub Dining, as determined by every major dining expert and amateur critic out there.

If you want to know how we did it, click here.

For full rankings, click here.

Additional reporting by Olga Belogolova and Alyson Sheppard. Slide show by Jamie Coelho.