For diners
Rank your favorite restaurants — without star ratings
Every restaurant on every app is somehow 4.3 stars. Bentu ranks the places you eat the way your brain actually works: this one versus that one, head to head.
Stars can’t tell your favorites apart
Quick: is your favorite taco spot a 4 or a 5? Would you demote it to 3.5 after one slow night? Star ratings force you to grade in a vacuum, and the result is mush — everything you like clusters around the same number, and the list tells you nothing.
Comparisons are different. “Did you like the tacos at El Camino more than the ones at La Salsa?” — that question you can answer instantly. Bentu asks you a handful of quick head-to-head match-ups and builds your ranking from the answers, using the same family of rating math used to rank chess players. The more you compare, the sharper your list gets.
A list for every craving
Your rankings live in lists you design: best pizza in town, date-night spots, cheap lunches near the office, places to take your parents. Add any restaurant, compare a few pairs, and watch the order sort itself.
Every place you rate also lands on your passport map — a personal map of everywhere you’ve eaten, with your ratings, visit dates, and notes. Years from now, “what was that amazing noodle place from that trip?” takes five seconds to answer.
Share lists friends actually use
When someone asks for recommendations, don’t text them five names they’ll forget. Send your list — a beautiful, browsable page with a map, your ranking, and your notes. It’s your taste, made useful.
Lists are the one thing on Bentu you can make public, and you decide which. A new list starts out public, so it shows in Discover and to anyone with the link, notes included; switch Public off and it’s yours alone. Your visits, feedback and passport map are never public: Bentu is not a review site.
Frequently asked questions
How does head-to-head ranking work?
Bentu shows you two places from your list and asks which you liked more. A few of those quick answers are enough to compute a full ranking — the same comparison-based approach used in chess ratings — and it keeps refining as you go.
Are my rankings and notes public?
Your visits, your feedback and your passport map are never public. Lists are your choice: the New list sheet starts with Public on, and a public list shows in Discover and to anyone with its link, with the notes you add to it. Turn Public off when you make a list, or edit it later, to keep it to yourself.
Is Bentu free?
Yes — free for diners: rankings, lists, notes, the passport map, and sharing.
Do I need to download an app?
No. Bentu runs in your browser on any phone or laptop — visit bentu.co and you’re in.
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