About Bucketdish
The menu has no pictures. We do. Bucketdish is a community of food lovers who photograph the dishes they eat and say how they were, so the next person at that table can see the plate before they order it.
A name, a price, then a guess.
You sit down and the menu has no pictures. There are dishes you’ve never heard of, and others you have that could arrive as anything. A name, a price, maybe a line of description. So you order the thing you always order.
Restaurant reviews don’t help much once you’re seated. They’re about the room: whether the table was ready, how long the food took, what the lighting was like. Useful for choosing where to go. Not much use for choosing what to eat.
Bucketdish starts from the plate. It’s the page the menu doesn’t give you.
What Bucketdish does.
It shows you the dish before you order it, one dish at a time, from the people who ate it.
See the plate
Open a place and see each dish with the photos people took of it.
Hear how it went
Every Bite says Loved it, It was fine or Not again, with a line on why. Once enough people have eaten a dish, it gets a crowd score out of 10. We rate dishes, not restaurants.
See how it tastes
Diners slide eight flavours, from sweet and salty to umami and fresh, to say how a dish tasted. That’s the Flavour Index.
Get your match
What you log teaches Bucketdish what you like. Once people have logged a dish, it gets a match for your palate from 0 to 100.
Keep the rest for later
Bucket a dish for next time, or make lists of your own: date night, a pasta crawl. What’s a Bite?
Made by the people who ate there.
Food lovers log Bites. A Bite is one dish: a photo, a verdict and a line from the person who ate it, plus how it tasted. Anyone with an account can post one, and nobody is paid to.
You follow people whose taste you trust, and their Bites land in your Feed. Like them, comment, and bucket anything that looks good. Your own Bites build your palate, and a map and a globe of everywhere you’ve eaten.
No restaurant pays to be in a Bite. A restaurant can reply to a Bite about its food, through the restaurant portal. It can’t delete one.
Alongside the Bites, our team writes stories, starting in the North East: market days, a stottie and pease pudding, the parmo crossing the Tees. Their cover photos illustrate the story rather than show the place. The dishes come first.
What it isn’t.
A restaurant review site
Bucketdish is about dishes, not dining rooms. A great restaurant can still do a forgettable lasagne, and you’d want to know about the lasagne.
An advertising business
There are no ads in Bucketdish, and we don’t sell your data to anyone.
A booking or delivery app
It helps you pick the dish. Getting a table and eating it is down to you.
Finished
It’s early days. If something’s missing, tell us.
What we stand for.
Real diners
Everything people post on Bucketdish is a Bite: one person, one dish they ate. Nobody is paid to post. One honest note: the app still shows some sample Bites we made while building it. They go before we launch properly.
No paid rankings
Restaurants can’t buy a higher score or a better spot on the map. In the restaurant portal they can fix a price or reply to a Bite, not bury one.
Your photo is yours
You own what you post. You let us show it in Bucketdish while it’s there, and when you delete a Bite, its photos go with it.
So is your data
Your account and Bites live in a database in London. None of it is ever sold, and we delete the lot when you ask. The privacy page has every detail, in plain English.
Where we’re at.
Early days. Our stories start in the North East. Elsewhere you may be the first to post a Bite, so a dish may have no photo or match for now. Someone has to go first.
Bucketdish is nearly ready, and free. The iPhone app is being tested on TestFlight and isn’t in the App Store yet. Google Play comes after that.
You might have known us as Forkhop: that was our name until September 2026. Same app, better name.
Bucketdish is made in the UK. Questions, ideas or a dish we have to try? Get in touch.
Pull up a chair.
Bucketdish is nearly ready. Join the waitlist and we’ll tell you the day it opens: iPhone first, then Android.