Where do we eat? Nearby places in, one dinner out.
Share where you are or type a place, say how far you'll go and who gets a say. Eat Up lists the restaurants, cafés and bars nearby from OpenStreetMap, puts the ones that are open first, and settles it — a weighted roll, a pass-the-phone veto round, a wheel, a bracket or a coin. Your location stays in your browser: it goes straight to OpenStreetMap's servers, never to ours.
What you get
Tonight — every named place within your distance, open ones first, then your moods, then the closest. Roll draws one with odds that favour open, nearby and in-the-mood. Veto it, star it, open it in maps.
Vetoes — pass the phone: everyone crosses out up to 2 places and stars up to 3, privately. What survives goes on a wheel; stars count double.
Bracket — the top 8 or 16 head to head, same cuisine first, taking turns. A coin for ties, and an optional party wheel for overrules.
Wheel — type your own options, places or cuisines, and spin. Works with no location; share it as a link.
Compare — who vetoed what, and the places everyone kept.
Questions people ask
How does Eat Up decide where we eat?
It narrows, then randomises fairly. Places are ranked open-now first (unknown hours in the middle, closed last), then by the moods you picked, then by distance. The roll uses weighted odds — an open place ×1.5, a mood match ×2, fading with distance — and the veto round, the wheel and the bracket let the group overrule it.
Does Eat Up see my location?
No. Your browser sends your position (or the place you typed) straight to OpenStreetMap's services: the Overpass API for places, Nominatim or Photon for place names. Nothing about where you are reaches our server, and nothing is stored.
Why are there no ratings, reviews or prices?
Because the data doesn't have them. OpenStreetMap is the free map anyone can edit: it knows what a place is, often its hours and cuisine, never whether it's good. Eat Up won't invent a rating — use the map links to read reviews if you want them.
What if a place's opening hours are missing?
It says "hours unknown" instead of guessing, and ranks the place between open and closed ones. Know the hours? Add them on openstreetmap.org and the next search uses them.
Can we use it without sharing a location?
Yes. Type a town, neighbourhood or address instead — or skip places and spin the plain wheel with your own options.
Pass the phone. Everyone crosses out up to 2 places (✕) and stars up to 3 (★) — privately, one at a time. Whatever survives goes on the wheel; a starred place gets two slots.
The best places nearby, head to head. Take turns: the named person picks where they'd rather eat. First-round matchups share a cuisine where possible.
Cuisine:
Keyboard: ← / → pick a side, Backspace undoes, C flips a coin. Spin to Win: the next person in line can challenge any decided match this round — spin, pay what the wheel names, and the result flips. Drinks wheel: nobody who drinks drives.
Your own wheel: type 2–12 options — places, cuisines, anything — one per line, and spin. Nothing is saved; Copy wheel link puts the options inside the link itself.
Ready
What each of you vetoed and starred in this session's veto round, and the places everyone kept.