Culinary Backstreets

Name: Culinary Backstreets
Rating: 2.5 (11 reviews)
Author: Culinary Backstreets

By: Culinary Backstreets

Food & Drink

Features & Capabilities

Download the application for free and purchase each city volume of reviews for only $3.99 each, with a lifetime of free updates!

The definitive guide to eating locally and authentically in several of the world’s greatest food cities, including Istanbul, Athens, Barcelona, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City – with more to come! Each city volume within the application is purchased separately for $3.99 with free updates to the database forever. Beyond the kebab, souvlaki, tapas, soup dumpling, feijoada or taco – and what you will find listed in most guidebooks for these cities – lies a wide range of unique regional cuisines and restaurants with hints of cooking from all around. Most of these spots, though, are found far off the eaten track. With Culinary Backstreets as your trusty guide, you will know what to eat and where to eat it.    Application features:  -Content provided by Culinarybackstreets.com, the online global guide to local eats. -The absolute best of Culinary Backstreets’ local correspondents’ eating experiences: hundreds of opinionated reviews of local and authentic restaurants, street food carts, bakeries, dessert shops and more.  -Search functions and integrated maps that make finding the perfect meal easy.   -Vivid photos of food and the people who make it.  -Content always available in off-line mode.     About Culinary Backstreets:   Partnering up with some of the most knowledgeable and passionate food writers and bloggers across the globe, Culinarybackstreets.com is a hotline for the hungry traveler, bedside reading for the foodie voyeur, and a heavily bookmarked index for those who live among the culinary backstreets featured in our pages. Dispatching from Istanbul, Athens, Shanghai, Barcelona, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Tbilisi (with more cities on the way), Culinarybackstreets.com is a community of readers and writers who follow their stomachs to the next destination. Praise for Culinary Backstreets’ Istanbul app:   “Finally, a guide that truly shows you how to eat like a local in Istanbul!” -Anya Von Bremzen, contributing editor at Travel+Leisure, author of “The New Spanish Table”   “…. The insiders guide to the back streets, hidden gems and tasty bites in the glorious old city on the Bosphorus. I love it.”  Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC NEWS   “Affectionate, funny and delicious. A must-have road map to the tastiest secrets in this beautiful city. I never leave home without it.”  -Ivan Watson, International Foreign Correspondent, CNN   “The brains (and stomachs) ….you want guiding you through the vast culinary treasures of one of the world's most interesting eating cities.” -Seth Kugel, Frugal Traveler, New York Times   “Brilliant insider guide to the best eats in Istanbul.”  -The Guardian

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Culinary Backstreets

Rating:

2.50

(11)

Version:

2.3.1 Last updated: 2016-10-12

Version code:

841414968

Creation date:

2012-09-01

Compatible devices:

Size:

16.05MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-14

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Culinary Backstreets

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/culinary-backstreets/id534876766

Website:

http://www.culinarybackstreets.com

User Reviews

The app is praised for offline navigation and authentic, offbeat restaurant picks, especially in Istanbul, but users report unreliable maps, stability issues after updates, and concerns about price and content completeness.

Pros

Offline GPS/maps that work well for roaming-free navigation.
Authentic, well-researched restaurant recommendations, including hidden gems.
Neighborhood-focused listings with easy navigation to nearby places.
Quality, curated content widely praised for Istanbul and other cities.

Cons

Unreliable location/Maps features: Nearby mode often doesn't work and maps may fail to load.
Post-update stability issues: difficult to navigate after a major overhaul and occasional crash on launch.
High price with perceived low value in some cases: users feel it's not worth the price and have been charged for downloads.
Content gaps in certain cities (Mexico City is described as light).

Recent reviews

Weird design for an app. I can’t look up a restaurant by food item or location or even meal offering. The location part of the app doesn’t link to any map app so it’s hard to find the restaurants. Not worth the price and I won’t recommend.

by Gi*****, 2024-02-27

App repeatedly fails to load Mexico City map and still charged me for the download. Needs serious work.

by mo*****, 2022-02-20

Best restaurants I went to in Istanbul were found in this app. The highly reviewed spots that you’d find on other apps were not often good, or were too crowded. Love this app. Will try for other cities from now on.