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Date someone with actual taste

Your saved restaurants, your cuisine obsessions, and the hole-in-the-wall places you swear by tell us exactly who you are. Everyone says they "love food" - your dining data proves it.

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How it works for food people

Connect your accounts. Beli, Tripadvisor, Google Maps saved places, OpenTable - we pull your restaurant saves, ratings, cuisine preferences, and dining frequency. Your bookings stay private. Only taste signals are used.

The matching engine understands food at multiple levels:


Niche cuisines score higher

Everyone likes Italian. That is presence, not a personality trait. Cuisine rarity drives the niche weight.

Mainstream
Italian
Popularity 90 → NicheWeight 0.10
Niche
Georgian
Popularity 4 → NicheWeight 0.96

Ratings reveal real preferences. Both saving the same restaurant is presence. Both rating it highly is genuine love. If you gave a place 5 stars and they gave it 2, the overlap disappears. The algorithm uses rating alignment as a sentiment factor.


What gets scored

Shared restaurants weighted by how niche they are - a shared love for a 30-seat ramen place scores far higher than both liking Nando's
Cuisine breadth and depth - not just "likes Asian food" but specifically Szechuan, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Korean BBQ - the granularity matters
Rating alignment on shared venues - the sentiment layer filters out places one person loved and the other thought was mediocre
Price bracket alignment - are you both street-food-first or fine-dining devotees? Lifestyle compatibility
Dining frequency - eating out 4 times a week vs once a month are very different lifestyles
Shared dislikes and dietary alignment - both avoiding chains, both vegetarian, or both allergic to the same things. Practical compatibility
Neighbourhood overlap - frequenting the same food scenes suggests you already move in similar circles

Your reservation for two

"You share 5 saved restaurants with a combined popularity under 8%, your cuisine profiles overlap 81% on Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern, and you both rate street food spots an average of 0.6 stars higher than fine dining. Your price bracket alignment is 94%."

Not "you both like food." The actual dining data.


The algorithm understands food obsessives

It knows that someone who has saved 40 restaurants across 12 cuisine types has a different relationship with food than someone who eats at the same 3 places. Engagement depth and cuisine diversity combine to paint a real picture.

The cross-category signal is strong too: if you also share music taste and attend food festivals together on Eventbrite, those signals compound.


Integrations

Beli
Restaurant saves, ratings, cuisine preferences, lists
Google Maps
Saved/starred restaurants, reviews, visit frequency
Tripadvisor
Restaurant reviews, ratings, cuisine tags
OpenTable
Booking history, cuisine preferences, dining frequency

All opt-in. All revocable. Your bookings and locations are never shared - only the compatibility signals.

Affinity Atlas is in development

No matching is live yet. If you think restaurant compatibility should be a dating signal - or you have opinions about how cuisine rarity should weight matches - get in touch.

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