I live in Toronto and it has 8,100 Restaurants, but just from the type of food they serve or the fact that many of them are chains and duplicates, I basically can cut that down to half at the very least.

It's also a city, I'm not exactly going to every corner of it to try different restaurants unless I get a reference from a friend or family member and even then, if it's out of the way it's a one time thing.

Within 15 minutes there might be 100 places I'd sit down in. 500 in 30 minutes. I can handle trying 500 restaurants over the course of checking this city because outside of personal recommendations, rating websites are garbage. It would be cool if they weren't, but all the systems we can currently use for reviewing are not helpful in making choices.

I completely get the point you are making, but you have taken it to an extreme. You are better walking down a street and trying a random place one to get an opinion then to go on the yelp or any other review and read feedback from someone you don't know, don't respect, and might very well just be a paid for bot and vise versa for avoiding restaurants.