Travel apps
Eating well while travelling is mostly an information problem: the good place is two streets away from the one with the English menu and the man outside inviting you in. These apps solve three versions of it — finding what locals rate, reading a menu you cannot read, and eating for less through surplus food and street-food knowledge. The best of them are strongest exactly where guidebooks are weakest: neighbourhoods.
The global map of vegan and vegetarian places
The travel life-insurance of non-meat-eaters: vegan restaurants, groceries and "veg-friendly" reviews city by city. It surfaces options even in countries whose menus have not a single vegetable dish.
Even in a steak capital like Buenos Aires, find the hidden vegan eatery 3 streets away.
European restaurant booking with discounts up to 50%
The restaurant booking standard in Europe; weekday campaigns of 20-50% off run for in-app bookings. The points system converts into discounts too.
Try the Paris bistro normally beyond your budget with a 40% off Tuesday-evening booking.
Rescue the day's unsold food at a third of the price
Bakeries, restaurants and groceries sell their end-of-day surplus as "surprise bags"; it fights waste while giving the traveler budget breathing room. Grabbing a bag in European cities can turn into an evening race.
In Copenhagen, pull tomorrow's breakfast out of a 4 € bakery bag; balance the expensive city.
The standard of restaurant reviews in the US and Canada
In the Americas it offers more detailed, filterable reviews than Google; photographed menus and popular-times info are strong. Weak in Europe and Asia, fall back to Google there.
In New York, filter an open-late, 4+ star, $$ ramen spot in 1 minute.
A giant review archive; useful for weeding out tourist traps
The largest archive of venue and activity reviews. Awareness: rankings are tourist-weighted, and "the city's best" is often "the tourists' best-known". Reading the bad reviews to eliminate traps is its most efficient use.
Read the 1-star reviews of the seaside restaurant; see the "they added service to the bill" warning in advance.
Check in and archive the places you have actually been
The answer, years later, to "where was that köfte place in Sarajevo": check in everywhere and your personal place memory accumulates on the map. Foursquare's venue tips still hit the mark too.
Send a friend the cafe you loved on a Balkan tour five years ago, within seconds.
The beer lover's venue and discovery guide
In cities with a craft scene it shows which bar has the good taps via community ratings; log what you drink and build a palate archive.
In Brussels, skip the tourist bar for the trappist bar locals rate 4.5.
Look at where the reviews are written in the local language rather than yours, and at places that are busy at the local eating hour rather than at yours. Ratings written by visitors measure whether a place is easy for visitors; ratings written by residents measure the food. Most of these apps let you filter or sort in a way that surfaces the second group.
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