Foods Nearby exists for one moment: you are hungry, you are somewhere, and you need to decide where to eat in the next twenty minutes. Not next month. Not “someday when I visit.” Tonight.
Most food coverage is built for a different moment. It is built for the search engine, for the press trip, for the listicle that will be rewritten by someone else next year. We wanted something closer to a neighbor telling you where to go: specific, current, and honest about what it does not know.
How the guides work
Every city gets the same three doors. Food trucks, because the best food in a city is often parked and gone by nine. Farmers markets, because that is where you find out what the city actually grows and who grows it. Dish guides, because sometimes you do not want a restaurant, you want the best version of one specific thing.
Each door leads to a page built on the same rule: real listings or none. A guide with three verified spots is more useful than a guide with forty entries we scraped from a map. It is also more honest.
How we verify
Before a business appears on Foods Nearby, we confirm three things: the name it trades under, a street address we can point to, and a public web presence that belongs to the business itself. Hours and menus are treated as volatile. We do not publish them unless the business supplies them, because a wrong closing time is worse than no closing time.
We do not invent events. A farmers market appears in our calendar only when we have a real date and a real venue. We do not invent prices, ratings, reviews, awards or quotes, and we do not publish a photograph of food and claim it came from a specific kitchen unless it did.
What we will not do
No paid placements. No “featured partner” slots. No affiliate links dressed up as recommendations. If money ever changes hands on this site, it will be labelled in the same size type as the recommendation itself, and you will be able to see exactly what was paid for.
No fake urgency, no invented “trending” badges, no aggregate star ratings we did not collect.
Where we are now
The site is built and the guides are written. The city template ships with a clearly marked sample city while the first real launch city is being prepared. That is deliberate: we would rather show you an empty, honest template than a full one we made up.
If you know a city we should cover, a truck worth tracking down, or a market with a real Saturday morning, send it in. If we got something wrong, tell us and we will fix it in public.
Corrections
Corrections are published, not quietly deleted. If a listing closes, changes hands or moves, we update the guide and note the change date on the page. If we publish something that was never true, we will say so at the top of the page rather than burying it.