[mseebach]

Actually making good, meaningful recommendations isn't a solved problem. Google has mass, and anything with more than ~4 stars generally isn't going to be awful, but it's a blunt instrument. Searching just slightly more specifically than that and the wheels come off.

I don't immediately see how your app solves the problem, it seems there are some lists of things, but it's an unqualified jumble. I am looking at the best bars in London list, and pretty much all my favourites are on there, but Gordon's, Duke's, Termini and Calooh Callay are very different places for different occasions (and, especially in the case of Duke's, different budgets), and there is nothing to help me decide.

Finding a bar, even a relatively good one, in London isn't a valuable problem, IMO, and certainly not one Google isn't going to beat you at -- finding a bar like Duke's in, say, Zürich is (for the particular subjective value of 'like' that I have in mind). A list of "that kind of bars" with a few options in every city might be a good answer, but I don't envy you the challenge of curating that sort of thing at scale.

[magdadc]

Thanks for the feedback! Agreed - for us using Google stars or tripadvisor ratings was useless in finding new places, as it's an average of thousands of people's opinions, who have different tastes and priorities.

Our stab at making finding places easier is to let people share their favourite places with friends (via lists) - you might not trust Google's bar recommendations, but you would trust your friend who goes out a lot and has a similar taste.