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The Best Places in Salem

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The best places in Salem, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide, AAA, and the James Beard Awards have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. The Hotel Salem comes out on top.

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Finz Salem and Turner's Seafood hold the next two places. AAA shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with the James Beard Awards next.

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  1. Rank 1. The Hotel Salem

    The awards

    Address
    209 Essex Street, Salem, MA · Salem
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  2. Rank 2. Finz Salem

    Seafood

    The awards

    Address
    86 Wharf St, Salem, MA · Salem
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  3. Rank 2. Turner's Seafood

    Seafood

    The awards

    Address
    43 Church St, Salem, MA · Salem
    Save On the Way What's Around

  4. Rank 4. Ledger

    The awards

    Address
    125 Washington St, Salem, MA · Salem
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The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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    The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.