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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 10 food and drink
Best food and drink in Sendai
The 10 most notable food and drink in Sendai, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
ひまわり ヤマザワ杜のまち店
Morinooka, 1 Chome−１６−16 ヤマザワ杜のまち店内
742 m from Kurokawa Ono, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.427, percentile 100 of 10
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2
ゆりあげキッチン＆ギャラリー メイプル館
Yuriagehigashi, 3-chome−５−1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.365, percentile 88.89 of 10
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3
阿部蒲鉾店 あべかまぼこてん
宮城県仙台市青葉区中央２丁目３−１８
66 m from Aoba-dori Ichibancho Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.352, percentile 77.78 of 10
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4
あおぞらマルシェ
八木山緑町7-37
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.128, percentile 66.67 of 10
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5
菓匠三全吉成店
青葉区吉成1丁目17-1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.089, percentile 55.56 of 10
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6
もつ擴
青葉区国分町2-2-15
434 m from Aoba-dori Ichibancho Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.798, percentile 44.44 of 10
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7
カウンターキッチン立町逗屋
Tachimachi, 17−7 littlerose101
474 m from Omachi Nishi-koen Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.534, percentile 33.33 of 10
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8
白松がモナカ本舗赤坂工場
青葉区芋沢字大竹原45
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.90 · rank score 1.424, percentile 22.22 of 10
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9
ずんだシェイク自動販売機
1 Chome-10-10 Central
81 m from Sendai Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.162, percentile 11.11 of 10
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10
藤や
仙台市青葉区本町3丁目6-1
422 m from Kōtōdai-Kōen Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 0.722, percentile 0 of 10
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).