The best food advice comes from your buds.
Not a five-star average. Not a stranger's photo. Buds learns your taste and connects you with the people who actually share it — so every recommendation sounds like you.
because taste is personal
A note from the two of us
We started Buds at our kitchen table on the seacoast, tired of the same routine everyone knows: scroll a hundred reviews, text the group chat, and still end up ordering the wrong thing.
The food we love tends to come from two kinds of people: our buds — the friends we just like to follow along with, whether or not they'd ever order the same thing — and our taste buds, the people we've never met who somehow always order exactly the way we would. Buds gives you both, in one place.
We're making it slowly and on purpose, right here where we live, and we'd love for you to be early.
Jordan & Spencer
New Hampshire seacoast
Three taps to a taste that's yours.
Rate the dish
Not the restaurant — the plate in front of you. Three honest buckets: not for me, liked it, loved it. That's the whole ask.
Build your taste
Every rating sharpens your flavor profile. The more you eat, the smarter Buds gets about what you'll love next.
Meet your taste buds
Buds finds the people whose palate mirrors yours and surfaces the dishes they loved — recommendations that taste like you.
The internet averages everyone. Buds finds your people.
because taste is personal
Your taste buds
The people you've never met whose ratings keep matching yours. Buds finds them quietly and lets their favorites lead the way — recommendations that fit your mouth, not the crowd's.
Your Table
The buds you know in real life. They won't always share your palate — but sometimes you just want to see where your friends have been eating. Add them to your Table and follow along.
let's be buds.
Be one of the first at the table.
We're testing on the New Hampshire seacoast right now, with the wider launch close behind. Grab a beta invite if you're local — or hop the waitlist and we'll find you when we land near you.
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Keep an eye on your inbox — good things are coming to your table.