How we pick venues
Every place in a plan has been checked against a dated source or a visit, and every guide shows when it was last checked. This page is the whole method.
What gets a place into a plan
A place is plan-ready only when a source from 2025 or 2026, or the venue's own current page, shows it open. A few we have also visited ourselves. Anything with older or thinner evidence stays out of every plan until it is checked again.
Each place carries the date it was last checked and the links its facts came from. The guides and the blog show both.
Facts, in our own words
We record what a place is known for in one sentence we write ourselves, what to order, the price band per person and where it is. We never copy a sentence from a review, and we do not show star ratings. Where we list a dish with a price, the price carries the month it was recorded, because menus change.
Hours
Hours come from the venue's own page or from an article we cite. When we cannot confirm them, the stop says "Hours not confirmed, message them before you go", and when two places fit a plan equally well, the planner picks the one with confirmed hours.
Labels we only use with a source
- LGBTQ+ friendly, only when the venue says so itself or a named publication does.
- Good for groups, only when a source shows group bookings, large tables, party packages or food-hall seating.
- Rain plans, only with places that are indoors or sheltered.
- Good without alcohol, from what the venue serves, so a plan for someone not drinking leaves out bar-only stops.
Photos
We use photos we took or Creative Commons photos, with the credit shown where the licence asks for it. We do not copy photos from Instagram, Facebook, TripAdvisor, Google or Spot.ph. In the planner, a stop with no photo of ours may show the place's photo from Google Maps, loaded from Google with its credit and never copied or changed. Where a venue has its own Instagram post, the page offers a button that loads Instagram's embed only when you tap it.
When something changes
A place reported closed is taken out of the list, not marked. If a detail is wrong, email [email protected] or use Something wrong? on the stop, and it will be corrected or removed.
Money
No venue pays to be in a plan. If that ever changes, the placement is labelled, and a paying venue can only win a tie between two places that already match your answers; it can never add a place that does not fit them. How affiliate links work is in the terms of use.
Last updated October 11, 2026.