Season 7 Finale: Yelp’s Top 100 Florida Restaurants with Andi Perez

This week, we’re getting the dish on some of Florida’s best places to eat, according to Yelp—you know, the website and app where real people leave reviews of local businesses. You’ll find everything from dry cleaners and locksmiths to hair salons and gyms. And of course, restaurants.Yelp recently released its list of the Top 100 Florida Restaurants 2023, as determined by users’ rankings and reviews. Not only does the list provide suggestions of eateries to add to your summer bucket list, but it reveals something about what’s trending in Florida’s food scene, says Andi Perez. Based in Orlando, she oversees Yelp’s community managers in the Southeastern U.S., including Florida.Dalia recently chatted with Andi about what’s trending in Florida’s food scene, the ingredients of a good restaurant review and her favorite eateries that haven’t made the list… yet. In our conversation, Andi also spills the name of the food-and-drink spot she loves so much that she chose it as the venue for her wedding.Related episodes: Halal Food 101 with Florida’s Halal Food Guru Food Blogger Ricky Ly on Orlando’s “Tasty Chomps” How to Be a Food Influencer Spice Up Your Life with “Saucy Queen” Michele Northrup of the I Like It Hot! Festival