re: Where would you rank New Orleans for dining in the U.S.?

So are they all the best and therefore one should travel to nyc and only eat filipino food or is that result simply the result of SEO and Yelp?

Again if your premise is to be a great dining town you need hundreds of different ethnic restaurants, than yes New Orleans loses out. But then so does Paris, Tokyo, Barcelona, San Sebastien, Rome, Florence, Mexico City, etc...