For food trips: every stop, kept.

Before you go

A short list, not a schedule.

The food trips people remember are loose. Pick a few anchors, leave room for the stall with the queue you didn’t plan for, and share everything so you can manage six stops instead of two.

• One anchor per meal. A breakfast, a lunch, a snack walk and a dinner. Anything else is a bonus.
• Cluster by neighbourhood. In Osaka, Dotonbori is one long snack. In Mexico City, a few blocks of Roma hold a dozen taco stands. Walking between stops is half the fun and all the digestion.
• Check the closing day. Market stalls often sell out by mid-afternoon, and many small places close one weekday. Note it next to each name.
• Order to share. One of everything, split between two or four, beats a full plate each at stop one.
• Carry small notes and download an offline map before you leave the hotel Wi-Fi.

Where the list lives

Places to try and places you’ve been are two lists.

PlateDiary keeps the places you have been, so the wish list belongs somewhere else: a note, a map list, a group chat. Our guides to a restaurant bucket list and a food trip itinerary have templates you can copy. Once you have eaten somewhere, it moves from the wish list into the diary on its own.

On the day

One snap per stop, then put the phone away.

Saves taken at the same place within about 90 minutes become one moment. Nine stops, nine moments, in the order you ate them — the itinerary writes itself after the fact.

1. Snap the table as the food landsOne photo, before anyone reaches in. The camera opens inside PlateDiary, so there is no switching apps at the counter.
2. Use Dish by dish at stallsWhen food arrives in waves — skewers, then the soup, then the dessert — Dish by dish keeps the camera up and stacks each shot.
3. Keep the savesEach dish and drink is cut out into its own save, on the phone, in about a second. Tap Keep and get back to eating.
4. Name things on the trainNames, stars and notes are all optional and can wait until the ride back. Names you have used before come back as one-tap chips.

Offline abroad

What works with roaming off.

Prices

Every price in the currency you paid.

Add a price to any save, or the bill to any moment, in the money you handed over: yen in Tokyo, baht in Bangkok, euros in Lisbon. PlateDiary never converts, so a trip across two countries shows each total in its own currency instead of guessing an exchange rate.

Got a paper receipt? Receipt scan reads it on the phone and deletes the photo right after. What it finds shows up as choices you tick, and it never replaces a price you typed.

After

The trip as a map, a page and a story.

• The map is your route. One pin per place, with a count of visits. Filter to drinks to find that cocktail bar again.
• One page for the whole trip. Heart the best saves into Favorites (free), or gather the trip into its own collection (custom collections are part of Premium).
• Something to share. Export any moment as a picture with the free share sheet, or build a postcard, a receipt or a looping 6-second video in Share Studio with Premium.
• The month, served. When the month ends, Served turns it into a short story: dish of the month, new places, who you ate with.

Copy it

A food trip checklist.

• Before: three anchor stops and three maybes · closing days checked · offline map downloaded · small notes in your pocket · stretchy shoes.
• During: one photo per stop before anyone eats · one line per stop, the thing you’d tell a friend · share every plate · water between stops.
• After: name the stops on the way home · pick one favourite per day · star the place you’d fly back for · make one picture for the group chat.