🍴 Now live in Des Moines
Your next favorite dish is already out there.
Plateful rates dishes, not restaurants. Set your taste, rate what you eat, and get matched to plates near you.
Free · iPhone · Des Moines founding city · Android waitlist
The Plateful difference
Restaurants don’t have taste.
Dishes do.
A 3-star restaurant can hide a 5-star taco. Star ratings average a whole menu into mush. Plateful reviews every dish on its own, then scores how well it matches your taste. No more ordering blind.
How it works
Three steps to never ordering wrong again.
Set your taste
Sixty seconds of tapping what you love: spicy, smoky, cheesy, fresh. That's your taste profile, and it only gets sharper.
What do you love to eat?
Pick a few. Your matches get smarter with every rating.
Rate what you eat
One dish, one rating, a couple of tags. Every review earns XP toward your kitchen rank and tunes matches for the whole city.
Street Tacos
How was it? Your rating tunes everyone’s matches.
Really good!
+50 XP · First to review this dish 🏆
Get matched
Open the app and see dishes near you scored against your taste. A 94% match means order it. You'll know before the menu arrives.
Des Moines, IA
Good evening, Sam 👋
Top matches for you
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94%Street Tacos
El Fogón
You love bold & spicy
91%Beef Pho
Pho 515
Matches your umami streak
Trending nearby
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88%Crispy Chicken Sandwich
The Corner Fry
Crispy, like you like it
76%Mac & Cheese
Harvest & Rye
Peak comfort food
Built for people who order well
Eating out, but make it a game.
Taste Match %
Every dish gets a personal score against your taste profile. Green means go.
Dish-level reviews
Rate the birria, not the building. Reviews attach to the plate, so great dishes can't hide.
Bounties
Be the first to review a dish at a restaurant and claim a +50 XP bounty. Uncharted menus are gold.
Kitchen Ranks
Climb from Stage to Dishwasher to Executive Chef. Your rank shows the city how seriously you eat.
Founding city
Born in Des Moines.
Built at its tables.
Plateful isn’t a coastal app that added Iowa to a dropdown. It started here, mapping the best birria, tenderloins, and pho in the metro, one plate at a time. The first thousand reviews will decide what this city eats next.
Early locals become Founding Foodies, with a permanent badge, first crack at bounties, and a real say in where we go next.
The Des Moines storyDishes being mapped across the metro
What early eaters are saying
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Questions, answered.
Is Plateful free?
Completely. No subscriptions, no paywalls. Download it and start rating.
Is it iPhone-only?
For now, yes. Android is on the roadmap. Drop your email in the waitlist below and you'll get exactly one email when it ships.
How is this different from Yelp or Google?
Those rate restaurants, averaging every dish, server, and parking lot into one number. Plateful rates individual dishes and scores each one against your personal taste profile. You're not reading strangers' opinions about a building; you're seeing how likely you are to love a specific plate.
What are bounties?
Open bounties sit on dishes nobody has reviewed yet. Be the first to rate a dish at a restaurant and you claim a +50 XP bonus toward your kitchen rank. It's how the map fills in.
What's a Founding Foodie?
Des Moines is Plateful's founding city, and its earliest active members get a permanent Founding Foodie badge, early access to new features, and a direct line to the team. Being early counts here.
Dinner’s about to get interesting.
Free on iPhone. Your first match is one rating away.
On Android?