Top Tier Eats

Top Tier is a best-of food app built around one simple idea: the people closest to a category are the best people to tell you what's great in it. A pit-master ranks barbecue. A pastry chef ranks bakeries. A regular who has eaten every taco in the city ranks the taco trucks.

Instead of infinite reviews with no point of view, Top Tier asks each curator a sharper question: what's your Top 5?

That's it — five picks, ranked #1 to #5. No filler. No bottom-of-the-barrel choices padded in. When a curator gives you only four, that's honest signal too.

No star ratings. No letter grades. If a place earned a spot, it's already top tier — the only question is where it lands.

What you get

• Ranked Top 5s: every list is capped at five, so making the cut means something. The top three get the podium — gold, silver, bronze. • City Consensus: locals' rankings blend into one rolling leaderboard per category, growing as more locals rank. Rows show live "open until X" status and distance from you, and every place reads as "Ranked #N" — tap through to the full consensus behind it. • Real people: locals and category obsessives who put their names on their picks. • 63 US cities, from NYC and LA to New Haven, Albuquerque, and Savannah. • Signature dishes done right: New Haven apizza, Chicago deep dish, Albuquerque green chile, Boston lobster roll, Memphis barbecue, St. Louis pork steak, Detroit Coney dogs. • Taste Match: find the curators whose palate actually lines up with yours, and follow them. • Built for browsing: category view, map view, deep place pages, and a "What's new in your city" rail that surfaces fresh categories as they land.

Editorial picks in every city, selected from trusted local food publications (Eater, Resy, regional dailies). Join as a curator and publish your own Top 5s.

Free. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases.

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