We provide measures of ethnic and racial segregation in urban consumption. Using novel user-generated online data, we estimate how spatial and social frictions in uence restaurant visits within New York City. Transit time plays a rst-order role in consumption choices, so consumption segregation partly re ects residential segregation.

Social frictions also have a large impact on restaurant choices: individuals are less likely to visit venues in neighborhoods demographically di erent from their own. While spatial and social frictions jointly produce signi cant levels of consumption segregation, we nd that restaurant consumption in New York City is only half as segregated as residences. Consumption segregation owes more to social than spatial frictions.