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Chefs Special
Stop eating 3-star meals at 4.5-star restaurants
A free food journal for restaurant favorites, home-cooked recipes and sharing meals with friends.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Richard, designer and maker of Chef's Special.
Why I built this:
We’ve all been burned by the "4.5-star restaurant trap." You look up a spot on Yelp or Google Maps, see glowing reviews for the ambiance or service, and still end up ordering the wrong thing on the menu. Meanwhile, a neighborhood dive with 3.8 stars might quietly serve the best charred cabbage, tuna tostada, or slice of pizza in the city.
You don't eat a restaurant: you eat a dish.
What Chef's Special does differently:
🍽️ Dish-First Discovery & Interactive Map: Browse and filter a live map of specific 5/5 dishes around you (chefsspecial.app/map) instead of wading through paragraphs of service complaints.
👑 The "Chef Specialist" Crown: Inspired by classic Foursquare mayorships, when you discover and rate a standout dish—or log the definitive version of a dish—you can claim and defend the crown for that specific plate.
👨🍳 Restaurant Inspiration Meets Home Kitchen: Great meals out almost always inspire what we cook at home. Alongside tracking restaurant dishes, you can log your own home-cooked plates and recipes in one visual feed.
🗺️ Your Personal Food Map: Build a shareable profile and map of your all-time favorite plates to send to friends when they ask for recommendations.
I started seeding the map right here in Minneapolis & St. Paul, and it’s completely open for anyone anywhere to start mapping their city's best plates and recipes.
I’d love your feedback on the UX and the map flow—and tell me in the comments: What is one specific 5/5 dish in your city that everyone needs to order at least once?
About Chefs Special on Product Hunt
“Stop eating 3-star meals at 4.5-star restaurants”
Chefs Special was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #141 on the daily leaderboard. A free food journal for restaurant favorites, home-cooked recipes and sharing meals with friends.
On the analytics side, Chefs Special competes within Home, User Experience and Cooking — topics that collectively have 548.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Chefs Special performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Chefs Special?
Chefs Special was hunted by Richard de Vries. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Chefs Special including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Richard de Vries