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Bucketdish is a community of food lovers who photograph the dishes they eat and say how they were. Before you order, you can see the plate, read what people thought of it and check how well it suits your taste.

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All words. Not one picture.

Risotto nero. Tonnarelli. Fritto misto. Most menus are just words, so you order the thing you always order. On Bucketdish, food lovers who’ve eaten there share a photo of each dish, whether they loved it and a line on how it tasted. You see the plate before you say it out loud.

Order like you’ve been before.

Look up where you’re sitting.

Search the restaurant and its menu is there, dish by dish, with the same names you’re holding.
Tap the dish you can’t picture.

See photos from the people who ordered it, the score it earned from them and what they said about it.

8.9Spaghetti alle vongoleScore from 14 diners
Order well. Then pass it on.

Your palate match points you to the dish that suits you. After you eat, post your own photo and verdict for the next table.

Matched to your palate.

A dish everyone raves about can still be wrong for you. Rate what you eat and Bucketdish learns what you go back for: rich or fresh, mild or hot, sweet or salty. Then it holds every dish up against that, using how the community describes it.

The more you rate, the better it knows you.
A dish nobody has logged has no match yet. We don’t guess.
Fancy a 40% match anyway? Order it. It’s your dinner.

Straight from the table.

A Bite is a photo of the dish, whether you loved it and a line about how it was. Food lovers post them as they eat. You read a few before you order.

Or start with our team’s stories from the North East

8.7
Double smash burgerKettle & Coal, Leeds

Crispy edges, proper sauce, and the bun held together to the last bite.

Priya · Saturday lunch
9.1
Pork & chive dumplingsLucky Pleat, Manchester

Thin skins, hot broth inside. We ordered a second plate before the first was gone.

Tom · Friday dinner
7.2
Chicken tinga tacosCalle Ocho, Glasgow

Smoky and good. Messy too. Ask for extra lime, because two wedges won’t cover it.

Aisha · Tuesday dinner
8.2
MargheritaForno Rosa, Brighton

Puffy, blistered crust. Sauce is on the sweet side, which I liked.

Dan · Sunday lunch
9.3
TiramisuNonna Pia, Bristol

Boozy, soft, not too sweet. Don’t share it unless you have to.

Hannah · birthday dinner

Friends sharing plates of food around a restaurant table

Run a restaurant? Show people the plate.

People order what they can picture. Claim your restaurant on Bucketdish, put your menu up, and see each dish with the photos and words of the food lovers who’ve eaten it.

Free for nowClaiming your place and running it in the restaurant portal costs nothing while we’re in early access.
Every dish, heardSee what diners say about each plate, reply to their Bites, and know what to keep, tweak or shout about.

Claim your restaurant How it works for restaurants

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Who takes the photos?

Food lovers, eating out like you. When someone finishes a dish they can post a Bite: their own photo, whether they loved it and a line about it. The photo stays theirs, and no restaurant pays to be in it.

What if nobody’s tried the dish yet?

Then you get to go first. Order it, post a Bite, and the next person at that table gets to see what turned up.

Do I have to post anything?

No. Read as much as you like. Posting helps the next diner, and it teaches your palate match faster.

How does it know what I like?

From your own Bites. Each one scores the dish on eight flavours: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami, spicy, rich and fresh. Yours add up to your palate, and the match is how close a dish comes to it. It gets sharper the more you log.

Can I use it yet? Is it free?

It’s free, all of it. The iPhone app is in testing now, then Android. Join the waitlist and we’ll tell you the day it opens.

I run a restaurant. What does it cost?

Nothing while we’re in early access. Claim your place in the restaurant portal, put your menu up and reply to Bites. You can’t pay to rank higher, and you can’t delete a Bite.

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