Analysis by cuisine
What changes by the query's cuisine type
We compare the experiment's nine cuisine categories: how many queries and mentions each generates, and whether it concentrates responses on a few restaurants or spreads them across many.
Summary
Fine dining concentrates its 172 mentions on just 56 distinct restaurants, with Quique Dacosta (24) and La Seu (18) well ahead of the rest. Tapas is the opposite case: 175 mentions spread across 116 distinct restaurants, none with more than 10. "Restaurants in general" (the query with no specific cuisine) generates the most mentions per query, with Mena, Casa Federico, and Quique Dacosta as the default reference.
Data quality notice
Of the 451 calls in this cut, 236 returned capturable text. The gap isn't spread randomly: it's concentrated in three specific day, time-slot, and assistant combinations (detail below) totaling 217 calls, of which only 2 returned text. Those calls completed their run and used tokens, but the text couldn't be recovered due to a capture-pipeline gap, not because the assistant recommended nothing. Every figure on this page counts them toward the total queries, but they can't contribute mentions.
Queries and mentions by cuisine
"Restaurants in general" is a reference query with no specific cuisine, not one more category: we treat it separately, as explained in the methodology.
Italian and pizzeria
55 queries · 118 mentions · 73 distinct restaurants
Most mentioned
- Il Forno (13)
- Pizzería La Trattoria (6)
- NOMADA Dénia (4)
Mexican
54 queries · 104 mentions · 63 distinct restaurants
Most mentioned
- Taco Loco (9)
- XqNo? Mexiterránea (5)
- Casa Mexicana (5)
Asian
53 queries · 117 mentions · 78 distinct restaurants
Most mentioned
- Restaurante Chino Gran Muralla (8)
- Sakura Japanese Restaurant (8)
- Kokoro (6)
Restaurants in general
51 queries · 190 mentions · 81 distinct restaurants
Most mentioned
- Restaurante Mena (18)
- Casa Federico (14)
- Quique Dacosta (12)
Valencian rice dishes
49 queries · 148 mentions · 59 distinct restaurants
Most mentioned
- Restaurante Mena (21)
- Casa Federico (12)
- El Raset (10)
Japanese and sushi
48 queries · 108 mentions · 60 distinct restaurants
Most mentioned
- Kokoro (11)
- Sakura Sushi (8)
- Sushi Dénia (5)
Tapas
48 queries · 175 mentions · 116 distinct restaurants
Most mentioned
- El Pegolí (10)
- Casa Federico (9)
- El Baret de Miquel (7)
Seafood
47 queries · 146 mentions · 71 distinct restaurants
Most mentioned
- Restaurante Mena (15)
- El Pegolí (14)
- Casa Federico (10)
Fine dining
46 queries · 172 mentions · 56 distinct restaurants
Most mentioned
- Quique Dacosta (24)
- La Seu (18)
- Casa Pepa (13)
What we can't claim from this
- Quique Dacosta leading both fine-dining and high-budget queries is a consistent association between two of the experiment's variables, not proof of causation.
- A low number of distinct restaurants in a category (like fine dining) could reflect fewer real options of that type in Dénia, or a tendency for assistants to repeat the same reference names: this experiment can't tell the two apart.
- Nearly half of this cut's queries have no capturable response text (see the data quality notice): mention counts by cuisine understate the real volume of recommendations.
Frequently asked questions
Before drawing conclusions by cuisine
Why does fine dining have so few distinct restaurants mentioned?
Fine dining concentrates its 172 mentions on just 56 restaurants, with Quique Dacosta (24) and La Seu (18) well ahead of the rest. That could reflect fewer real fine-dining options in Dénia, or a tendency for assistants to repeat the same reference names for this category: this experiment can't tell the two apart.
Does that mean tapas places are better than fine-dining ones?
No. This page measures how many distinct restaurants get mentioned per category, not their quality. Tapas spreading 175 mentions across 116 restaurants, none with more than 10, only means assistants cite a wider variety of places for that cuisine, not that they're better.
Keep exploring the dataset
This is one of six dimensions we analyze. The rest of the variables, and the full dataset to explore on your own, are on the data page.