Preset User Recommendations?

If I were building a food takeout mobile app, and a user currently didn't have any user-defined favourites, would it be a pleasant UX for a user to see 'recommended restaurants'?

Pros: educates the user that there are good establishments/brands partnered with the app

Cons: the restaurants may not be close in distance to the user, so it may occupy unnecessary screen space/cause confusion given that it is takeout/pickup