How Ultima Guide Works: The First High-Tech Guide to Tashkent's Restaurants

Artificial intelligence analyzed more than 3000 restaurants in Tashkent and rated them by the number of orders and visits, reviews in the Yandex Maps app, and more than 100 other criteria. This is how the neural network compiled a long list of 140 establishments fit to be included in Ultima Guide. The restaurants in the guide are shown in alphabetical order.

The list includes famous restaurants as well as small cafes. New establishments (those opened less than three months ago), bars, coffee shops, food malls, and restaurant chains (with more than three restaurants) were excluded, as other criteria should be used to evaluate them. A restaurant doesn’t have to be a Yandex Go partner to be included in the guide.

The next stage of the selection to Ultima Guide was the vote. 4500+ Yandex Go users and 39 independent experts (restaurateurs, chefs, and food critics, as well as business and media representatives) participated in the vote. The users who took part in anonymous voting were those who had been interacting with establishments through Yandex services during the year. To protect the vote from fraud, each voter received an individual link.

Ultima Guide will include top 20 projects rated the highest by users and experts.  The voting results will be counted by an evaluation model specially developed by Yandex. Results will be checked by the Yakov and Partners international consulting company.

Ekaterina Pugacheva, the jury chair of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants rating for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia helped to develop the guide methodology.

We’re planning to update Ultima Guide every year.