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Good food.
Better plans.
Find a table, discover a café or put together an evening out. Choose the places you enjoy, with a little less guesswork.
We’ll join the dots.
Ratings with context.
Walking routes with purpose.
A place for every plan
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Separate words with commas. Matches names, addresses and reported categories; features not in that information cannot be verified.
Chain detection uses names and can miss ownership. “Popular” here means at least 800 reviews; it is a filter preference, not a tourist-trap judgement. Open-now excludes places with unavailable hours.
Adjusted ratings balance Google stars with review volume. Fewer reviews mean more adjustment towards the prior average.
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Start with somewhere you know.
Search a town, a neighbourhood or a postcode. Then choose food, coffee or an evening out.
Searches are a selection of available venues, not a complete directory.
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Make a little more of going out
Your places. A better route.
Let us choose a combination, or pin your favourites from the place cards. Your current category and filters define the places we can use.
A little more context
A rating is a starting point.
A place with five stars from three reviews has less evidence behind it than one with 4.7 stars from hundreds of reviews. Our default adjusted rating balances the stars with the number of reviews.
The defaults remain 3.5 for the prior average and 10 for the prior strength. This is a weighted estimate, not proof that a venue is better. You can adjust these values, or sort by Google rating, review count or distance.
A route with more than one priority.
The planner compares venue quality, a mix of categories, preference matches and real walking distances. It searches several visiting orders instead of always starting at the top-ranked venue.
It respects your pins, locked stops, rating threshold, walking limits, food stops and timing. The route drawn on the map is checked again against the final walking directions.
Useful choices, clear limits.
Searches draw on Google’s venue categories. More coverage uses extra searches in smaller areas, with duplicates removed. Results are not guaranteed to include every venue.
Planning compares up to 18 places chosen for quality, proximity, area coverage and your pins. It is a bounded search for a good route, rather than a claim of a mathematically optimal route.
“Less prominent” favours lower review counts alongside adjusted quality. Chain matches come from names and can be incomplete. The independent preference rewards only ownership verified by the guide operator.
The experimental option.
The original Wilson-style calculation is retained as an explicitly experimental transformed score. Five-star averages are not binomial votes, so it is not a valid confidence interval. Bayesian ranking remains the recommended method and is used for route quality.
Straight-line distance is used only for discovery and candidate selection, and is labelled as such. It is never displayed as a verified walking leg.