GoodEats
Eating well, remembered.
Systems for tracking restaurants, remembering dishes, and never losing a recommendation again, from the maker of GoodEats.
New city, empty map: how to build your food life from scratch
Moving resets your entire restaurant memory. A 90-day playbook for turning an unfamiliar city into a map full of places that feel like yours.
How to decide where to eat with friends (without the 40-message group chat)
"Where should we eat?" "I'm easy!" — 40 messages later, nobody has decided. Four systems that end the group-dinner stalemate in minutes.
Tracking restaurants in Apple Notes: where it works, where it breaks
The 'Restaurants' note is the world's most popular restaurant tracker. An honest look at what it does well — and the three walls everyone eventually hits.
How to save restaurants from Instagram and TikTok (before they vanish)
Your saved Reels folder is where restaurant discoveries go to die. A two-minute ritual turns social media food finds into places you actually visit.
The best restaurant tracker apps in 2026: an honest roundup
Beli, Truffle, Vimini, GoodEats, or just Google Maps? A fair comparison of restaurant tracking apps — by someone who makes one of them.
How to keep a restaurant journal: a simple system that sticks
Most food journals die in week three. A restaurant journal survives when the entry takes 60 seconds and answers two questions: go back? order what?
How to plan where to eat on a trip (and actually remember it afterward)
Trip food planning fails at both ends — too much research before, zero record after. A light system for eating well abroad and keeping the memories.
Your dining history is personal data: the case for a private restaurant tracker
A log of everywhere you eat reveals your routines, your neighborhood, your relationships. Maybe it shouldn't live on someone else's server.
"Where should we eat?" — how to organize restaurant recommendations from friends
Recommendations arrive in chats, stories, and conversations — then vanish. A simple intake system turns scattered tips into a list you can actually use.
Never forget what to order: track dishes, not just restaurants
You remember loving the restaurant — but which dish? Dish-level tracking is the upgrade that makes a food diary actually useful. Here's the system.
Google Maps saved places: great for directions, bad as a restaurant tracker
Saving restaurants in Google Maps feels free, but flat pins can't tell a memory from an intention. Here's what breaks and what to use instead.
Beli alternatives: 4 other ways to track the restaurants you love
Beli is great if you want social ranking. If you want a shared list, a spreadsheet's flexibility, or a fully private tracker, here are the alternatives.
Is there a Goodreads for restaurants?
People keep asking for a Goodreads for restaurants: shelves, ratings, a personal record. Here's the 2026 landscape, and which app fits which person.
How to build a restaurant bucket list you'll actually use
Most restaurant wishlists turn into graveyards. A working bucket list needs a size limit, a map, and a habit of actually crossing things off.
How to keep track of restaurants you want to try
Screenshots, notes apps, and map pins all fail the same way. Here's a capture system for restaurant recommendations that actually holds up.
Introducing GoodEats: a private restaurant tracker for iPhone
GoodEats is like Goodreads for places: Been and Want-to-go shelves, ratings, dish notes, and a map. No accounts, no tracking, your data stays in your iCloud.