Yelp is definitely a great resource to follow the flair of the crowd and chose the next place where you will eat out. I also like their maptastic page, where the browsing experience evolves around a map. Definitely a killer app when you are looking for joints in your neighborhood.

Just for the fun of playing around with Click2Map’s map creation features, I slurped in the first 90 top-rated restaurants in San Francisco, laid it down on an excel sheet, converted it into .csv, and fed it to the Click2Map’s import tool that automatically generated the 90 markers on the map.

To view the map in a full page, go here.

The funny thing is that a lot of those businesses are just food stands. For example, ranked 15th is the Tamale Lady. All San Francisco locals know her because she shows up in the city’s downtown bars with a small cart full of tamales. She looks like a bum, but she ranks 15th on Yelp. Props to that! Some businesses would pay a lot of money to have such a high ranking in the city.

Another advice for businesses trying to boost their ranking in the popular business social directory, invite Elite Yelpers to come to your place, for free, and hope they will review it. Some businesses rank in the top 20, even though there aren’t more than 20 reviews on their business profile page, but a third of those have been made by Elite Yelpers.