About Eat Morels
A dining guide that helps you figure out exactly where to eat and what to order once youâre there.
Ricky Zhongâ Founder
Software engineer at Netflix
Iâm a huge foodie and have spent thousands of hours happily researching restaurants, securing reservations, and offering food recommendations to all those who ask. But even as someone who has eaten my way across cities, itâs still unnecessarily difficult to figure out where to eat out with my friends for dinner or who serves the best Matcha Latte in my neighborhood â I find myself cross-referencing 3-4 different apps and sites and trusting 3-year-old Reddit posts more than anything.
Iâm building Eat Morels to be the first thing people open when they want to figure out where to eat and what to order, so anyone can find the best version of any dish theyâre craving in any neighborhood, at any price point, at any time. I want it to be something my family, my friends, and anyone across the world could use, and itâs your input that will help everyone discover the hidden gems â the morels â of the foodie world.
How it works
Instead of just offering a catalogue of restaurants with a single score that doesnât tell you all that much, our users can rate restaurants on Food, Vibe, and Service, and rate each dish individually â so they can share what to order with their friends.
To review a restaurant, users have to check in: log the visit while within 200m of the restaurantâs location. That filters for people who have actually eaten there, and keeps out the bots and spammers that plague other sites.
What you can do
- â˘Search & filter â find restaurants by cuisine, open now, or neighborhood, or try searching for a specific dish
- â˘Check in â verified visits within 200m, dish-level ratings, photos, and short notes that flow to your friends and community on the feed
- â˘Map view â explore restaurants on an interactive map to browse by location
- â˘Dish recommendations â each restaurant page highlights what to order, ranked by confidence
- â˘Save to collectionsâ bookmark restaurants to âWant to Goâ or âBeenâ lists, or create your own
- â˘Share collections â make any list public and send the link to friends
How the data evolves
When a new restaurant joins Eat Morels, our proprietary algorithm seeds it with a hidden starter score and a list of likely-best dishes pulled from trusted sources â so thereâs something useful on day one.
As real check-ins, dish ratings, and photos come in, they take over. The more ratings a place gets on our platform, the more your communityâs data shapes what gets surfaced â not ours.
Reaching out!
Found a bug, a bad recommendation, or have a feature request? Head to Support â thatâs the fastest way to reach me.
For press, partnerships, or just to say hi, email hello@eatmorels.com.