Maps are customized to blend your personal preferences with the dining culture of your destination. We all want to eat what’s good in, and what’s unique to, the place where we’re eating. We want to enjoy exciting variations on what we love, and encounter new flavors we hope to later dream about. We want the warm, candlelit, white clothed table by the window on a rainy evening; we want to clink glasses over a breathtaking view of a sparkling city; and we want plastic stools under a tarp with a paper plate, surrounded by grill smoke and loud music and conversation in a language we may never understand. I work to put all of that, what you want and what the place and its people offer, into each guide.

Maps are not guarantees; but they are strong recommendations. I do my best to thoroughly vet every stop I pin— but in most cases, I haven’t been there myself. And even if I have, food is a living industry, and restaurants living businesses; from one day to the next, from one person to the next, you might have a different experience than myself or others. But that’s why I request your personal preferences; so I can recommend the places where you, not necessarily I, will have a great time. I don’t suggest any place I wouldn’t go myself — but it’s your trip, and the focus is on your stomach.

Maps flex to your trip. You don’t have to be going far — this could be a guide to your own city, or a place you’ve only dreamed of and finally have the opportunity to visit. A weekend stay in a mountain town, a month-long multi-city tour through Europe, or even a deeper dive into your own backyard; wherever you’re going where you want to eat.