About the website

Every city has many hidden gems which remain unknown to the people either because they are too small to create a branding of their own or are in hidden bylanes of the city usually less accessible and bit far away from where bulk of the people reside. As cities expand their boundaries and become more crowded, it becomes difficult for people to explore all the areas of the city in search of good food. Also many times one is visiting a new city for business or pleasure and is completely un-aware of what dishes to try there. This website is an attempt to capture such hidden gems and make them known to all. It will also make it easier for people to choose the right dishes to try without the hassle of going through hundreds of reviews/reels and dissecting & analyzing each one of them.

We have given options to filter the recommendations based on City, Foodie’s Rating (Must Try/ Can Try), Type of cuisine, Restaurant Type, veg/non-veg and distance from your place of residence. You can also get directions to the restaurant by clicking on the hyper-link provided in the dish thumbnail or in the detail page for a particular dish. You can get more details of the dish as well as the restaurant in the details page by clicking on the dish thumbnail. There is also an option in the detailed dish page for you to give us review comments once you have tried out our recommendation. Your ratings and comments will help us re-look at our recommendations and vet them again. We would also like you to give us new recommendations – you can do so by clicking on Contact-> Recommend A Dish. 

While we have tried to cover multiple cities, most of our recommendations are from Pune where we reside. This is just the beginning and we endeavor to cover more and more dishes across multiple cities as we move along our food journey!!         

Why we came up with this website 

We are foodies who love eating good stuff outside! Amongst us we have tried countless number of food joints over several years. But we always faced couple of problems while choosing a dish –  

 1) Which restaurant to try?? – We would usually check Zomato/Google etc. for reviews, but did not find them to be entirely reliable – either because some of them are usually sponsored or doctored or because lot of them are about service or ambience/interiors (and not entirely about taste of food). As a foodie, we care more about the taste than ambience or service. The other source of choosing a food joint was Instagram/Facebook reels, which were also not completely reliable as well as very time consuming.

        2) Which dish to choose in a good restaurant?? Most of the reviews we checked were about the restaurant and not a particular dish in the restaurant. Going through hundreds of review comments was time consuming and also not accurate. Hence lot of times we ended up at the right place but eating the wrong dish!!  

After such countless experiences we decided to put together a list of best-of-the-best dishes in food joints that are tried and tested and have withstood the test of time. This website makes it easier to select a dish based on type of cuisine, type of food joint or distance from the area where you reside.

Who are we 

We are die-hard foodies – a north Indian and a south Indian based out of Pune. We are very passionate about food and love trying out dishes from different cuisines across the country. The idea of this website cropped up in our mind after years of struggle in finding good eateries and/or right dishes in these eateries – within our own city as well as other cities during our business or leisure travel. We are not affiliated to any restaurant or brand. Early retirement from our IT jobs gave us enough time to take this as a passion project. As true-foodies we are committed to keep on adding new dishes to our list of recommendations. 

How do we arrive at our recommendations –

First, we solicit recommendations from our known foodie friends – people who we know have eaten a lot outside!! We ask them to recommend their top 5-10 dishes of all time. In addition, we also source recommendations from different reels online. However, we know that these are not completely trustable sources since a lot of reels are just paid marketing these days. We then check reviews on each of these recommendations from different websites (Google/Zomato etc..). After final validation, we shortlist the dishes to try and validate. We then visit these shortlisted food joints and try the recommended dishes.  If it passes our criteria, we categorize them into two buckets –

Must Try: A dish which elicited a WoW !! reaction from us. A dish whose taste we will remember months after having eaten it and would want to eat again and again.

Can Try: A really good dish that is worth trying if we are in the vicinity of this place.

So far, our hit ratio has been one in three i.e. for every three dishes we shortlist and try, only one gets into our website. Hence you can be assured that every dish that is recommended by us stands the test of quality and you will not be disappointed by the taste. We understand that different people have different tastes and so someone may not find our must try a must try. Yet this is our humble attempt to bring the best of taste in a city to you.