Food you'll love,
decided together.
Palate learns your taste from the meals you rate, connects it to the dishes and restaurants worth trying next, and helps you and your friends land on somewhere everyone is happy to eat.
Built for iPhone first — the web app comes with it.
How it works
Three steps from the meals you rate to a place everyone agrees on.
Rate what you eat
Mark the dishes you try Not for me, Like, or Love. Every rating is a small, honest signal about your taste.
Palate learns your palate
Food research links what you have enjoyed to ingredients, dishes, and cuisines you have not thought to look for.
You loved miso ramen and braised short rib.
Try a dashi-braised dish next.
Decide together
Make a group, ask the Assistant, and get options that fit everyone’s tastes, budget, and plans for the evening.
What it does
A recommendation you can actually check.
Palate should leave you feeling understood and a little more adventurous — so every suggestion carries a reason you can recognise, and more detail when you want it.
Taste that explains itself
Every dish comes with the connection behind it — an ingredient you keep coming back to, a pairing that has worked for you — so you can judge the reason, not just the result.
Contains mushroom — a Love in your journal, twice.
Truffle and parmesan pairs with the rich, savoury dishes you rate highest.
Scan a menu
Point your camera at the menu in front of you. Palate reads the dishes and tells you which ones fit what you already like — and which ones to avoid.
Plan with friends
Make a dining group and plan with everyone's tastes in the room. When preferences clash, Palate asks about the compromise instead of quietly picking a winner.
Sam avoids pork, Jordan wants something spicy. Would Sam be happy with the Sichuan place on Clement?
Palate Assistant
Ask for what you want in your own words. The Assistant works from your eating profile, what we know about food, and research on the web — and tells you what it is working from.
Somewhere warm for four, near the Mission, under $40 each?
Three places fit. Two of them serve the braised dishes you keep rating highly.
Food is social
The people you eat with are part of the recommendation.
Profiles, groups, and the diners you follow all feed into where you end up. Everyone can add suggestions to the same conversation, or one person can plan with the group's tastes in mind. After the meal, what everyone enjoyed makes the next suggestion better.
Allergies stay exclusions and intolerances stay warnings. A group preference never overrides either.
Friday dinner
3 members · Mission & nearby
Alex
Loves smoky, charred things
Sam
No pork, warm rooms only
Jordan
Chasing anything spicy
Nothing fits all three tonight. Would Jordan be happy with the Korean place — the stews are spicy, and there's plenty for Sam.
Friday, 7:30pm · 3 people
Invite sent to the group
Start building your palate.
Rate a few dishes, and Palate starts connecting what you enjoy to what to eat next — on your own or with the people you eat with.
Palate is in development. Restaurant coverage starts in San Francisco and grows from there.