Spork
One tap, one restaurant
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You are hungry, you open a restaurant app, and half an hour later you are still scrolling star ratings, review essays and sponsored picks. Spork answers the question instead. Tap once and it gives you one restaurant near you — its cuisine, distance, address, phone, and a straight line into Maps. Not feeling it? Tap again.
It lives at spork.website and runs in any browser with nothing to install. The free iPhone app runs the same engine and opens directions in Apple Maps.
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How it picks
Every restaurant in range is scored, and the pick is drawn from the top of that pile rather than the very top of it, so tapping again gives you somewhere else worth going. What moves the score:
- Distance — nearer is better, on a curve that flattens out rather than ruling out the place a mile further on.
- Cuisine — ask for Thai and you get Thai. Ask for nothing and it uses what you have liked before.
- Time of day — breakfast places in the morning, dinner places at night.
- Hidden gems — a real local spot outscores a chain or a drive-through.
- Novelty — somewhere you haven’t been shown yet gets a nudge.
The restaurants come from OpenStreetMap, which is free and community-maintained, with Google Places filling in cuisines, addresses and whether a place has quietly closed. Nothing is sponsored: no restaurant can pay to appear.
Nothing to sign into
There is no account and no sign-up, so there is nothing to sync and nothing to leak. Your location is used the moment you ask for a restaurant and never stored. The taste profile it builds from what you pick, skip and save stays on your device, and no rating or review is ever shown to you — the whole point is to leave you with one decision, not fifty.
On spork.website