Now on the App Store · Free · Best in NYC
The end of “where should we eat?”
Swipe restaurants, eat with your friends, and get the table. A social network built around dinner — free for everyone.
Free · iPhone · No ads, no paid tiers
Everything between hungry and seated
Discovery
Stop reading reviews. Start seeing dinner.
Every card is a real restaurant near you, led by the food — not the storefront, not a wall of 4.2 stars. Swipe right on the birria, filter to open-now and walkable, and the deck sharpens with every swipe.
The table
The table, not the tab-hopping.
Live Resy times sit right on the card — tap 7:30 and you're booking. For the spots that are never available, set a Hunter: we watch the book around the clock and ping you the second a table drops.
Friends
Your friends are a better algorithm.
The feed is what your circle actually ate this week — Five Leaves on Saturday, the tea house your friend won't shut up about. No influencers, no review farms, no ads.
Ranking
Rate it head-to-head.
No five-star theater. PalAte asks one question — this one or that one — and your top ten builds itself out of the answers. Your #1 Vietnamese, on record.
Your list
Every place you've saved, in one place.
The spots you bookmarked, the ones friends sent you, the ones you're still working up to. One list, with the menu and the next open table one tap away.
The map
See what's around the corner.
Switch to the map when you already know the neighborhood. Open now, walkable, and worth the walk — the same deck, laid over the blocks you're standing on.
Three steps to dinner
Swipe
Open the deck. Every card is a restaurant near you with real food photos and live availability.
Match
Your deck stops showing you tourist traps and starts showing you your next favorite. Every swipe teaches it.
Eat
Book the table in two taps, or set a hunt for the impossible one. Then rank it and build your list.
Sounds like your kind of dinner?
Free for everyone
The more friends join, the better every dinner gets
Free for everyone, forever — no paid tier, no ads. Because when your friend can't make their 8pm at Carbone, that table should find you, not a cancellation queue.
Tables move through friends
Plans change. When someone in your network can't make their 8pm at Carbone, that table finds a friend instead of dying in a cancellation queue.
Your taste graph compounds
Every swipe, rating, and post makes the network smarter about where you and your friends should eat next. More friends, better picks.
Real people, real meals
The feed is what your circle actually ate this week — not ads, not influencers, not five-star review farms.
Bring three friends and the whole network gets smarter.
Now open
The table you can't use
is worth something.
Post the 8pm you're dropping. Take one a member can't make. PalAte facilitates the negotiation — tables move through the network instead of dying in a cancellation queue.
Free, like everything else in PalAte.
Carbone · Sat 8:00
wants any Thu · party of 2
Tatiana · Fri 7:15
wants Torrisi · party of 4
4 Charles · Wed 9:30
wants any weekend · party of 2
Before you ask
Where is PalAte available?
Everywhere. The deck works wherever you are, with our deepest hand-curated coverage in New York City — and search lets you plan a trip or a dinner in any city before you get there.
Is it free?
Yes — all of it. Swiping, rankings, hunts, the feed, group chats. No paid tier, no ads. PalAte gets better with every person who joins, so we're not putting a paywall between you and your friends.
Can I pass a reservation to a friend?
That's the point of the network. When plans change, your table should go to someone you know instead of back into the void.
How do reservations work?
Cards show live Resy times; tapping one opens the booking flow directly. For fully-booked spots, a Hunter watches availability and notifies you the moment a table opens.
How do I get it?
It's on the App Store — search PalAte Connect, or tap Download above. Free, no invite code, no waitlist. iPhone only for now.
What do you do with my data?
The short version: we don't sell it and we don't run ads. The long version is in our privacy policy. Read it here.
Dinner, decided.
Free on the App Store. Download it, bring your friends, and stop asking “where should we eat?”
Free · iPhone · No ads, no paid tiers