YesPlate

Decide what to eat.
Then where.

YesPlate reads the menus themselves — every dish in the city, with the ingredients that are in it and the price beside it. Type what you feel like: ramen, something with truffle, noodles without cream. Set vegan, vegetarian or lactose-free and the same search counts only what you can eat.

Free to search, no sign-up, nothing to install — it runs in the browser you have open, at the table if you like. The iPhone and Android apps are on their way; the web app is the same thing and works today.

Vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian and lactose-free, counted per menu

Turn a filter on and every restaurant picks up a single number: how many dishes on its published menu you can actually eat. A place with four is still a place you can eat at, so it is never hidden, never greyed out and never marked with a warning colour. There is no red anywhere in this app.

In the city list

  • Trattoria del Ponte 41
  • Kanaal Café 12
  • Bistro Marceau 3
Vegan dishes on each menu, right now. Three is still three — and three is dinner.

Inside one menu

The middle one is out on butter and parmesan — and the app names the ingredients that decided it, rather than asking you to trust a badge.

Where YesPlate has read the menus

Each city has a page of its own: how many menus are in it, how many of them have something vegan, vegetarian or lactose-free on them, and which kitchens carry the most.

Every city, including the ones being read now — and how to ask for yours.

How YesPlate works

  1. Pick your city

    Restaurants near you, or in the city you fly to on Friday. Share a location and skip even that.

  2. Say what you are after

    A dish, an ingredient, a cuisine. Or a dietary line — vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, lactose-free, no pork, no beef. Or nothing, and read the whole city.

  3. Read the dishes

    Every match by name and price, with the ingredients that decided it and the date the menu was last seen.

Who it is for

Anyone who has stood on a street with their phone out, deciding. Some of them have a restriction; most of them are just hungry.

Common questions

Do I have to pick a diet?

No. YesPlate opens with nothing filtered and shows every dish on every menu — most people use it just to work out what to eat. The dietary filters are there for when the question is narrower.

How is this different from other restaurant apps?

Review apps rank venues: stars, photos, a price band. They tell you a place is good, not what is on the plate. Vegan finders go one step further and label the venue. YesPlate reads the menu itself, so you can search for the dish you actually want — which is how an ordinary trattoria with 41 vegan dishes stops being invisible next to a vegan café across town.

Which diets does YesPlate cover?

Six, on every dish of every menu we hold: vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, lactose-free, no pork and no beef. The last two say only that the menu named no pork or no beef — they are not a halal or kosher certification: ritual slaughter, a supervised kitchen and a separated fryer are facts about a kitchen, and an ingredient list is only ever a fact about a dish. Gluten-free is deliberately not offered at all: our checks on it are measurably less accurate than on the six, and for someone coeliac a wrong “you can eat this” is not a small mistake.

Is YesPlate free?

Searching is free and needs no account: every search shows the first five matching dishes and tells you how many more there are. To see all of them you can buy a pass — 14 days or a year, a single payment that does not renew and leaves nothing to cancel. There are still no ads, no profile and nothing about you is sold.

Where does the dish data come from?

From the menus restaurants publish themselves, with the prices as printed. The ingredients under each dish are our reading of that menu, not the kitchen’s own list — we show them so you can check the reasoning rather than trust a badge, and report anything we get wrong.

Can I rely on it for a food allergy?

No. Treat it as a shortlist, not a medical answer. Our ingredient lists are a reading of a published menu, not an allergen declaration from the kitchen, and recipes change — so if a mistake would send you to hospital, confirm with the restaurant.

Which cities does it work in?

Open the app and pick from the cities that are live; the ones still being built are listed as coming soon. Menus are read in the language they were written in, and the app itself speaks 27 languages.

What YesPlate does not claim

It reads menus that restaurants publish. It does not phone the kitchen: the ingredients under each dish are our reading of a published menu, not an allergen declaration — recipes change, chefs improvise, and “probably fine” is the strongest claim this data supports. If a mistake would send you to hospital, ask the restaurant. Tell us when we get one wrong; there is a report button on every dish.

Searching needs no account, there are no ads and no profiles, and nothing about you is sold. Buying a pass creates an account from your email address and nothing else — never linked to what you searched for. Nothing is measured unless you say yes, and you can say no and keep the whole app.

So — what is for dinner?

Pick a city, type a craving, read the menus. No account, no install, no cost.