I was hungry. The internet made it complicated.
Harry Hungry is a shorter restaurant guide. You say roughly what you fancy; it hands you ten places, two honest scores apiece, and a verdict in plain English. That's the entire service. No feed, no directory, no scrolling.
Why I built it
Dinner should not require research funding.
Dinner should not require research funding. You should not need three browser tabs and a spreadsheet to work out whether a place is any good. The evidence already exists — it's just scattered across sites that each have their own bias. Harry Hungry gathers it, checks it, and hands you ten places instead of three hundred.
What Harry Hungry does
- 01
Gathers the evidence
Google, Yelp, Tripadvisor, the proper critics and the booking sites — read together, so you don't have to open five tabs.
- 02
Checks for nonsense
Weights the sources by who's actually reviewing, discounts the shouty, and flags it when they disagree.
- 03
Makes the list shorter
Ten places, two honest scores, one verdict apiece. A shortlist you can actually choose from.
What it is not
Not a directory
Three hundred results is a search box, not advice. You get ten.
Not pay-to-play
No restaurant can buy its way on, up the ranking, or into a softer verdict.
Not infallible
The scores are an informed estimate from the available evidence — not gospel.
Not another feed
Nothing to scroll, nothing to get lost in. Ask, read, go and eat.
Independence
Can a restaurant pay to appear? No.
No restaurant can pay to appear, to rank higher, or to soften a verdict. No affiliate links, no sponsored placements.
The current model is simple: I pay for it, you read it, we both eat better. If that ever has to change, it'll be said plainly and up front.
The honest bit
What it can't tell you.
The scores are an informed estimate based on the evidence available in each city. They are not a guarantee, and the mix of sources changes depending on what's available and trustworthy where you're looking.
It won't know if the kitchen had an off night, whether the menu changed since the last reviews, or whether you'll get on with the waiter. It points you at the good ones. The rest is dinner.
Who's behind it
I'm not a critic in robes. I'm someone who has spent a life eating out, worked in kitchens when I was younger, and has enough chef friends and family to know when a room is coasting. I got fed up scrolling four contradictory review sites to pick dinner, so I built the thing I wanted: a shortlist, with reasons.
Frequently aired complaints
Can a restaurant pay to appear?
No. No affiliate links, no sponsored placements, no commission on bookings, no paying to rank higher or soften a verdict. If that ever changes it'll be on the front page in plain language, not buried in a disclosure.
Are you a chatbot?
There's a person behind it, but the heavy lifting is automated: the scores are built from published reviews and critic coverage, weighted by rules — not by anyone visiting every restaurant. The maths is on How Harry Hungry works.
Why should I trust this over Google?
Google trusts the loudest reviewer. Harry Hungry reads several sources, weights them by who's reviewing, and tells you when they disagree. That's the whole job.
Why ten?
Because three is a list and twenty is a directory. Ten is the number of places you can hold in your head while deciding what to do this evening.
What if I disagree with a verdict?
Tell me — the contact form is below. Specific dishes, specific nights, specific bills. The more concrete, the more useful.
Right then. What do you fancy?
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