Restaurant Wishlist
Restaurants you want to try, by city and cuisine.
Overview
The Restaurant Wishlist is a structured replacement for the screenshot folder, saved-tweet pile and never-quite-organised note where you stash the places you want to eat at one day. Every time you read a feature, get a recommendation, or wander past somewhere intriguing on a side street, you add a row — name, city, cuisine, and a free-form note. Months later, when you are finally booking that Lisbon trip, your existing wishlist filters down to a focused list of dinners worth chasing.
Saved entries can be marked as visited with a star rating, turning the wishlist into a lightweight food diary over time. You build a city-by-city memory of what was worth the wait and what to skip on a return trip, all without subscribing to yet another social platform.
How it works
Each entry captures the restaurant name, the city, the cuisine, and free-form notes for things like "reservations open 30 days out" or "ask for the chef's table". Entries default to "want to try". Once you have been, mark the row visited and add an optional star rating; the chip flips from a pending state to a visited state so the wishlist can double as a record of past meals.
The flat list keeps the interface fast. Sorting and grouping happen in your head as you scan by city or cuisine — useful when you are planning, because you can see at once whether you actually have a wishlist for the destination or need to fill it out. A sample loader seeds the form with realistic entries so the layout makes sense before you start typing.
Examples
- Adding "Tsuta" in Tokyo, cuisine ramen, note "tickets sold morning of, arrive by 8am".
- Logging "Hawksmoor" in London, cuisine steakhouse, marked visited with four stars.
- Capturing a side-street trattoria in Rome with just a name, city and a note like "place opposite the bookshop, no English menu".
- Pre-trip dump of half a dozen Lisbon restaurants from a magazine feature, all tagged with cuisine for later filtering.
FAQ
Can I record a restaurant I have already been to?
Yes. Add it normally, then mark it visited and rate it. The wishlist becomes a hybrid wishlist-plus-diary.
Is there a map view?
No. The list is text-first so it stays fast and works on weak connections abroad. Use a maps app for actual routing.
How do I find restaurants for an upcoming city?
Glance through the list — the city chip on each row makes it easy to scan, and most travellers do not have so many entries that filtering is essential.
Can I plan a trip's meals here?
The wishlist is broad and city-anchored. For dated trip itineraries, pair it with the Trip Planner tool and copy candidate restaurants into the trip notes.
Are ratings out of five?
Yes — a simple 1 to 5 star scale, optional. Leave it blank if you do not want to rate a place.