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I love food and I love travel. Naturally I decided to compile a list of all the best restaurants in the world. Still very much a work-in-progress but would love to get feedback.

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Like others, bookmarked. So useful, thank you. Feedback as requested:

1. It's a map of "the best", so maybe the default filter shouldn't show "ok" recommendations

2. The numbers on the pins change regularly (I'm on mobile/Firefox). Maybe the pin could indicate the source of the review, or the quality, or the restaurant type? Or not have the number at all.

3. Moving the map around reloads the pins for the viewed area, but it sometimes loads a different set of pins for a big city. Is there a max number of pins being loaded on each map view change? If so, perhaps the max should be higher?

Hope that helps!

1. Agreed, I'll likely hide them by default. The results from Gayot/Eater are incredibly noisy, and I doubt most people are interested in seeing restaurants from Gayot's "Top 10 dog-friendly date brunch spots this holiday."

2/3. I was experimenting with numeric pins but have now switched back to pins which vary by size depending on the restaurant awards. I also increased the pin count to 50 by default. Can you try it again and see if it feels more intuitive?

Awesome!

The pin count increase has improved the situation, but it's still noticeable. I'm using Vancouver/CA as the test if that helps.

I see what you mean now. This has become an interesting experiment in UX. I updated the platform to leave any previous pins on the map (even if they're no longer in the top 50 results). Hopefully it works better now!

Wow also had a similar idea! How are you getting the google review aggregate if you don't mind me asking? Even simply plotting Michelin restaurants seems like such a good idea in retrospect. I wanted to do something similar with famous food bloggers, maybe you can consider adding that to your list. Something like all of Mark Wein's recs on a map, with a link back to the original youtube video. Automatically adding data from different sources is the hard part I couldn't get over, especially since some of the videos don't have a location in the text.

Reviews are coming from Google directly. I'll likely add OpenTable reviews as well since I feel their content quality is quite high.

I'd love to add bloggers but it seems quite difficult to automate and I want to minimize how much manual work this project requires.

Similarly I'd love to include all the chefs and track which restaurant they're at now but I haven't found a good way to automate this.

This is amazing. So much easier than the official Michelin app. I’ve had the same idea to aggregate real reviews… because google reviews are pretty useless if you’re looking for special places.

Bookmarked and will use!

Thanks! I struggled with the same problems. Existing search tools make it difficult to discover high-quality restaurants (either via poor UI, lack of granular filters, or low quality content). I'd be curious to hear if you have a better solution to filter/gather reviews.

Very cool - I assume most of the data is gathered through scraping? Quite a few of the sources you're pulling from don't look like they have APIs available.

Great work, TYVM. I'd suggest submitting it to subreddits like InternetisBeautiful, MapPorn, etc..

If you want to monetize it, setup ads and a "adblock" detection script.

Opened the site to see if I can provide some feedback. Ended up bookmarking 6 places to go check out in the city.

So glad to hear that! After building the V1, I was similarly surprised by how many new restaurants I was able to instantly discover. Even found a few spots which I'm tempted to travel for.

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