A long dinner table set with candles and flowers

Your taste, dish by dish.

A free food app for people who love to eat. Remember every dish, share what you cook, and always know what to order.

Start free, no sign-up Why we built it
The idea

Rate the dish, not the restaurant.

Every food app gives a whole restaurant a star rating. But that's not how eating works. The same place can serve the best steak of your life and fries you'd never order again. Palate remembers both, so next time you order the right thing.

Skirt steak
Perfect char, great sauceOrder again
Truffle fries
Soggy, too saltyMeh
Burrata
Fresh, simpleGood

One meal, three very different answers. After a few meals Palate knows your taste: what you love, what you skip, and the rules you eat by. Then it reads any menu for you and points at the dishes made for you.

Our story

It started at a family dinner table in New York.

Palate was started in 2026 by Arik Altheim, a New York business owner and a serious home cook who loves eating out. He kept running into the same problem: he could remember a great restaurant but not the dish that made it great. And the family recipes everyone asked for lived in screenshots and old group chats.

So he built a place for both. Palate keeps your own taste: every dish you've eaten, how it was, and what to order next time. It also keeps the food you make at home, shared only with the people you choose.

The first recipe on Palate is Arik's own: a silan shawarma baby chicken with broccoli. He invented it, cooked it and ate it, and now his family can cook it too.

When he showed the idea to his son, his verdict was short: "It's a W idea." Palate launched to friends and family that week.

"It's all about the person, not the business."Arik Altheim, founder
A roasted chicken on a plate
How it works

Four things, done really well.

What should I order?

Snap the menu at any restaurant. Palate picks your best bets, one to stretch you, and what to think twice about.

Log a meal

Snap the receipt and the dishes fill themselves in. Rate each one in a tap. Your ratings stay private.

Made it

Share recipes with your family or friends' group, or the world. Shopping list in one tap, and cook mode with big steps and timers.

Ate it

See where your people ate and what they ordered, so the best tip always comes from someone you trust.

A plated fine-dining dish being served
Dine out

New York's best tables, chosen with care.

A hand-checked guide to fine dining in New York, at every price, from tasting menus to the neighborhood place you'll go back to every month. Every restaurant has its own page with the menu, reservations and a map, plus what Palate diners ordered there.

Date nightTasting menusSteakhousesSushi & omakaseKosherMediterranean📍 Near me
90restaurants
12kosher
15kinds of food

Browse the guide

What we're building

Food is personal. Your app should be too.

01

Your taste, remembered

No more "what did we get last time?" Everything you've eaten, and how it was, in your pocket.

02

Tips from people you trust

Not reviews from strangers. Your family, your friends, the people whose taste you know.

03

Free, private, everywhere

No sign-up, no ads in your face, no selling your data. New York first, then every city people love to eat in.

Join us

Two ways in.

For people who love to eat

Free. No sign-up, nothing to download from a store. On your phone in ten seconds:

  1. Open Palate.
  2. iPhone: tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
  3. Android: tap the menu, then Add to Home screen.
Open Palate

For restaurants

Your restaurant can have its own page on Palate, free: your photos, your menu, your story, and a direct line to diners who come in knowing what to order.

Get your page