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Two friends look through a neighbourhood restaurant window at dusk.

Saving restaurants · 14 Oct 2026

Apps for organising your restaurant wishlist

A want-to-try list only works if you see it at the right moment: when you're hungry and nearby.

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A traveller looks from her phone toward a cafe-lined street from a hotel room.

Saving restaurants · 14 Oct 2026

How to save restaurants you find on Instagram

Instagram's saved folder is where restaurant recommendations go to die. Here's how to get them onto a map.

Dumplings, a broken custard tart and tea rings on a well-used dim sum table.

Restaurant trackers · 14 Oct 2026

Apps to track the dishes you've tried

The restaurant is the address. The dish is the memory. Here's how to keep it.

Two travellers share sandwiches beside their luggage at an airport.

Food travel · 14 Oct 2026

The best food apps for travelling abroad

Not country-specific. These are the food apps that are useful wherever you land.

Half-eaten aubergine, torn flatbread and a compact camera after dinner.

Restaurant trackers · 14 Oct 2026

Apps to remember what you ordered at a restaurant

The name of the dish, what it cost and whether you'd order it again. Most apps keep the restaurant and lose the plate.

A diner weighs up spicy noodles and grilled fish at a busy neighbourhood restaurant.

What to order · 14 Oct 2026

AI apps that help you choose what to order

Restaurant apps tell you where to go. Very few help with the harder question: what do I order?

Friends share tortilla and anchovies at a tiled Spanish tapas bar.

Food travel · 14 Oct 2026

The best apps for eating out in Spain

Spain eats late and orders in rounds. These apps keep up.

Two friends look in different directions on a rain-dark restaurant street after dinner.

Restaurant trackers · 14 Oct 2026

Beli vs Mapstr: which restaurant app is right for you?

One turns eating out into a ranking. The other turns it into a map. They suit different people.

A traveller holding a pastry spots a bakery on a wet street corner.

Restaurant trackers · 14 Oct 2026

Mapstr alternatives for saving and organising places

Mapstr is a great place-saver. These are the alternatives, depending on what you want your saved places to do.

A traveller studies a worn menu over espresso and a custard pastry in Lisbon.

Menu translation · 14 Oct 2026

The best menu translator apps, compared

Every phone can translate a menu now. The question is whether you understand it afterwards.

A friend glances back while stepping into a lively neighbourhood restaurant.

Restaurant trackers · 14 Oct 2026

The best restaurant tracking apps, compared

Ranked lists, private maps, plain saved pins, or a record of what you actually ate. Pick based on which one you'll still open in six months.

A diner tries a forkful of spicy noodles at a busy restaurant.

What to order · 14 Oct 2026

Personalised food recommendation apps: which ones actually learn your taste?

"Personalised" usually means "popular near you". Here's which apps actually learn what you like.

An open notebook, meal photographs and coffee on a kitchen table the morning after dinner.

Restaurant trackers · 14 Oct 2026

Restaurant diary apps: keep a record of every meal

A diary isn't a ranking. It's the meal, the date, who you were with and whether you'd order it again.

A diner scans a clean paper menu with her phone beside tea and dumplings.

Menu translation · 14 Oct 2026

How to translate a menu from a photo, and the AI apps that do it well

Photo translation is easy. Getting a clean, usable menu out of a crumpled, handwritten, two-column photo is the hard part.

A traveller looks down at the ramen he has just lifted from the bowl at a small wooden counter in Tokyo.

Food travel · 14 Oct 2026

The apps to download before you go to Japan

Japan is easy with the right four or five apps, and confusing without them. Here's the short list.

A diner reacts with curiosity as a bowl of seafood arrives at the table.

Menu translation · 14 Oct 2026

Google Translate alternatives for restaurant menus

Google Translate is the default for a reason. It's also why so many people end up ordering the wrong thing.

Two friends share a late-night Korean barbecue with banchan and lettuce wraps.

Food travel · 14 Oct 2026

The best apps for travelling to South Korea

Korea is the country where your usual apps let you down. Install these instead.

Three friends laugh and talk over nearly empty dessert plates in a restaurant booth.

Restaurant trackers · 14 Oct 2026

Beli alternatives: apps like Beli, and what each does differently

Beli is good at social ranking. If ranking is the part you don't love, here's what else exists.

A diner laughs over steak frites at a pavement bistro in Paris.

Food travel · 14 Oct 2026

The best apps for restaurants in Paris

Paris rewards booking ahead and reading the menu properly. These apps help with both.

A traveller laughs over half-finished rigatoni in a Roman trattoria courtyard.

Food travel · 14 Oct 2026

Essential apps for travelling to Italy

Italy runs on trains and long lunches. These apps cover both.

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