Tastemakers vs Foodies Is Live
Social Foodie was never built for a pile of stranger stars. You add tastemakers as faves, you open a take, you decide if that palate is yours. The gap was what happened next: your reaction lived on that one review, and the restaurant itself didn't keep a Foodie score.
That's the drop. Tastemakers vs Foodies puts two palates on the same table — the tastemakers you already trust, and the Foodies who actually ate there.
Same vibe copies the sticker. Disagree picks one.
On a review, Same vibe still means what it sounds like. Tap it and you're with that tastemaker — and your restaurant rating becomes their sticker. If they called it ELITE, you just voted ELITE.
Disagree is the other half of a real opinion. It opens Rate it yourself: the six Social Foodie stickers, NOPE through ELITE. You pick a bucket. The tile remembers it — You: BANGER — so you can see your read sitting next to theirs.
You still don't write a review. You react. The difference is the reaction is a real rating now, not just a nod on someone else's take.
This tastemaker versus the crowd
Every review now carries a VS row. Left side: this tastemaker's sticker and handle. Right side: the Foodie aggregate for the restaurant — the same number you'll see when you flip to Foodies on the place page.
It's not a fight for its own sake. It's the question you were already asking: does the room agree with the person you came here for?
Until a handful of Foodies have weighed in, we keep it honest. "Be the first" beats a fake consensus.
Flip the toggle on a place — or a dish
Restaurant pages, chain pages, and dish spotlight all get the same audience toggle: Tastemakers or Foodies.
Tastemakers is the receipt you already know — the takes, the blended sticker, the people you added as faves.
Foodies is the crowd, anonymous on purpose. No per-person cards. You get a Foodie aggregate sticker, a vote count, and the spread from ELITE down to NOPE. One rating per Foodie per restaurant. One per dish. Latest write wins, so you're allowed to change your mind after the second visit.
Rate the plate, not just the place
On "what they ordered," every dish row has its own mini Same vibe / Disagree. Same vibe copies that item's sticker. Disagree opens the same Rate it yourself sheet, titled for the dish.
That's how a restaurant can be a BANGER while the fries are a MEH — and how dish spotlight can show the Foodie read on a plate, not just the building.
Going Next is a Save now
Going Next used to compete with your rating. Not anymore. Tap it and the place lands on your Saves with a Going Next flag. Rate it too, if you want. Both can be on.
Un-tap Going Next and the Save you already made stays put. Your Saves list can badge the ones you're actually headed to. The count on the review is restaurant-level — same number on every take from that spot — because "who's going" is about the table, not the clip.
Pull up a seat
Open a review. Put your sticker on the place, or on the plate. Flip Tastemakers vs Foodies and see whether the palate you trust and the room are telling the same story.
Taste you can follow — and talk back to.