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iPhone apps + web · restaurant guides

Where to eat, from the public record.

Eats Ranked is a family of free restaurant guides, one per state, built from public records, open map data and cited public sources. Each state gets its own iPhone and iPad app, a website and a web version, with local favorites checked one place at a time, from Wisconsin fish fries to New Haven apizza. Twelve states are live on the web, and the first app, Wisconsin Eats, has been submitted to Apple.

Live on the web in twelve states · iPhone and iPad apps coming soon

eatsranked.com, Restaurant guides by state: the cards for Chicago Restaurants: Ranked, Wisconsin Eats, Colorado Eats and Washington Eats, each with its icon, its tagline, a link to its website and “Coming soon to the App Store”
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Eats Ranked websiteEats Ranked website in dark mode

eatsranked.com: one static page generated from a single data file of states and prices. It opens with a map of the live states, and each state’s icon links to its site; further down are a card for each app and a restaurant-prices section built from Bureau of Labor Statistics data. No cookies, no analytics, no requests to other sites.

Inspection records

Inspection results, as each agency publishes them.

Where an agency’s inspection data can be used, the apps show its results as recorded and never re-grade them: Florida’s statewide inspection results, LA County’s letter grades, King County’s food safety ratings. Search-only portals and data published without a license are left out. Chicago records results such as Pass, Pass with Conditions or Fail but no letter grade, so the Chicago app adds its own: a 0–100 score and an A–F grade from the results since January 2023, for more than 7,000 restaurants. Every screen that shows a grade says it is the app’s, not the City’s.

California Eats on iPhone, the Inspections guide: LA County’s official score and letter grade at the latest inspection, as LA County records them, with the note “We never compute a grade of our own”; 25,591 places, best latest result first, the first three Grade A with a score of 100
Local favorites

Each state’s own food, checked one place at a time.

From Wisconsin on, every app has guides to its state’s food traditions: fish fries and supper clubs in Wisconsin, green chile in Colorado, Seattle teriyaki in Washington, New Haven apizza in Connecticut, stone crabs and Cuban sandwiches in Florida, taquerías and dim sum in California. Research agents checked each place against a 2025–26 source, such as its own site or menu or a dated news story, and the guides list only places checked open. Wisconsin’s alone has 402 Friday fish fries and 211 supper clubs. The apps store no customer reviews or star ratings; ratings, hours and photos open in Apple Maps’ own place card.

Washington Eats on iPhone, one of the state apps: the Seattle Teriyaki guide, hand-checked teriyaki counters statewide with what each one serves, 179 places sorted nearest first
One state at a time

Five more states live in four days.

Chicago and Wisconsin came first, in late September. Between October 5 and 8, Colorado, Washington, Connecticut, Florida and California went live on the web, each built from one shared playbook and fitted to what its state, counties and cities publish, with its own name, icon, palette and guides. What one state’s QA round catches goes into the playbook for the next. Maine, Idaho, New York, Hawaii and Texas have followed since, for twelve states on the web.

The Connecticut Eats website, one of the five: its own navy and tomato-red palette, its apizza icon, links to its Apizza, Lobster rolls, Hot dogs and Diners guides, and counts of 27 apizza places, 58 lobster roll and clam shack stops, 45 diners and dairy bars and 9,358 restaurants statewide
Kept current

Chicago’s new records, checked before they ship.

Of all the apps, the Chicago app is the one that refreshes its data every week, because the City keeps adding inspection results. A Python pipeline scheduled for every Monday refetches the City’s records and publishes only if every check passes: Chicago counts within 5% of the data already published, no more than 10% of grades changed, and a spot check of changed grades against the City’s own data. The app downloads the new data without an app update, and the web version reads the same files.

Chicago Restaurants: Ranked map of the North Side with restaurant pins colored by the app’s own A–F grade

Who did what

Claude Code wroteThe SwiftUI apps, the Python data pipelines, the state websites and web versions, the test suites, the guide research by teams of research agents, the App Review and legal-risk playbooks, and the eatsranked.com hub.
Nick didThe idea and the rules for the apps: no Google data, no customer reviews or star ratings. The names, icons and palettes, the domain, the data and licensing calls, a yes before each push (the weekly Chicago data publish runs on a schedule), and every App Store submission.
The process

How it got made

  1. Start with one city

    AI

    Turned Chicago’s inspection records into a score and an A–F grade, built the iPhone app and wrote an App Review and legal-risk audit before launch.

    Me

    Set the app’s rules: no Google data, no customer reviews or star ratings, no Yelp.

  2. Then a second state

    AI

    Built Wisconsin Eats from the Chicago app’s structure, with research agents checking each fish fry and supper club against a 2025–26 source.

    Me

    Decided the name should cover restaurants in general, with fish fry and supper clubs as the tagline, and chose one domain with a site per state instead of buying wisconsineats.com.

  3. A hub and ten more

    AI

    Built eatsranked.com from one data file, then Colorado, Washington, Connecticut, Florida and California, and later Maine, Idaho, New York, Hawaii and Texas, each fitted to whatever inspection data its state or local health agencies publish.

    Me

    Chose each state’s icon (a Pueblo green chile, not a peach) and made the licensing calls.

  4. Ship and keep it current

    AI

    Set up the weekly Chicago data refresh with its checks, and wrote the App Store listings and review replies.

    Me

    Submitted the first app, Wisconsin Eats, for App Review on September 28; Apple asked for more information. None of the apps is on the App Store yet.

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Live on the web in twelve states · iPhone and iPad apps coming soon

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