Complete High Desert Restaurant Breakdown

It can be difficult to find new restaurants in the High Desert so in order to sort through and hopefully find new options I decided to take the data from the County Health Department and sort through it to come up with a list of places to seek out.  If you want the data to sort through yourself by your own criteria you can download the entire list here: https://www.sbcounty.gov/dph/ehsportal/Facilities/Food

The list includes all facilities that the County Health Department inspects which includes schools, convenience stores, groceries and all of the chains.  I took the master list and started filtering out the places that don’t apply to what I am interested in with food such as popular chain places, schools, etc. The list can be sorted by city so I set aside the communities outside of the Victor Valley for use when I am traveling outside of my typical range. Here are some interesting observations and some places I am looking forward to trying out.

On the date I uploaded the list there were 15,508 different entries.  Once I removed the communities other than Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley and Adelanto there were 1595 left.  Then I sorted through the listings for those communities and took out the places that weren’t local restaurants.  There were 290 left. They didn’t already have a category for the type of restaurant so I added in that column and gave them a type. The categories I came up with were mostly related to ethnicity such as Mexican, Chinese, etc. but also includes categories for bakeries, groceries and burgers. The Victor Valley has:

American

34 American Restaurants

16 Burger Places

3 Hawaiian Places (One is a chain but I kept it because I like it)

8 Southern/Soul Food Joints

20 Pizza Places

11 Sandwiches

2 Seafood Restaurants

1 Fine Dining/ Fusion (Chateau Chang)

Asian

7 Chinese Restaurants

2 Asian Buffets

1 Filipino Market/Restaurant

18 Japanese Places (Almost all sushi)

3 Korean Restaurants

1 Mongolian BBQ

5 Thai

4 Vietnamese

1 Indian Place (plus maybe another in a gas station I haven’t been able to chase down yet)

Latin American

90 Mexican Restaurants (I hope to do a better breakdown on these later)

3 Salvadoran

Other

9 Italian Restaurants (outside of Pizza Places)

1 Middle Eastern (Plus Mu’s Street Food)

1 African Restaurant

1 Jamaican

I hoped that I would come across some other type of restaurant that I really liked but unfortunately there were not many surprises.  There were no Peruvian, Persian, German/ French/ or any European except Italian, Brazilian/Argentinian, Moroccan or Cuban.  In the future I would like to cover some of the non-restaurant entries that are of interest.  There are 18 Donut Stores, 7 Ethnic Groceries, 12 Frozen Desert Places and 5 Bakeries (though I don’t think this includes some of the panaderias that are in the area)

Now I can start making priorities based on some of the available choices and hopefully get some new reports uploaded soon.