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About Every Spot

Every permitted place to eat within walking distance anywhere in Manhattan, from the Battery to Inwood — nothing ranked, nothing hidden. Mainstream map apps decide which places you see; this one shows all of them and lets you do the narrowing.

Data as of — · — places.

Where the data comes from

NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene — Restaurant Inspection Results

The list of places · names, addresses, cuisine, grades, phone numbers

Every restaurant, café, bar kitchen and food counter in New York City needs a permit from the NYC Health Department, and every permit holder is inspected. The results are published on NYC Open Data. Because it's a permit list rather than a ranked directory, it's the most complete record of where food is served in the city — that's why it's the backbone here.

OpenStreetMap

Streets and sidewalks for walking times · street-corner lookup · opening hours, websites, bar/café type · the map itself

A free, community-built map of the world, downloaded from Geofabrik. Walking times are computed on its pedestrian network — streets, sidewalks, crosswalks and park paths — and places are matched to OpenStreetMap listings (same name, within about 80 m) to add hours and websites where volunteers have recorded them. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Address search uses OpenStreetMap's Nominatim.

MTA — subway schedule (GTFS)

Subway times for Meet up · lines, stops, ride times, how often trains run

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority publishes its full subway timetable as open data. Meet up uses it to work out how long a ride takes and how often each line runs at the hour you'd set off.

Curated lists

The badges · who vouches for a place

Michelin stars via Wikipedia's list of Michelin-starred restaurants in New York City (CC BY-SA), from the Michelin Guide · Eater 38 and Eater Heatmap from Eater NY · Hit List and Greatest Hits from The Infatuation. Only the fact that a place is on a list is used, with a link back — read the reviews at the source.

How it works

Walking time: Real routes along streets and sidewalks, at about 3 mph (80 m a minute, which allows for crosswalks). A 10-minute walk is the area you can actually reach in 10 minutes — not a circle.
On the way: For a trip from A to B, a place's detour is walk(A → place) + walk(place → B) − walk(A → B). The highlighted streets are every route that stays within your detour budget.
Meet up: Instead of the geographic midpoint, it looks for places where the longest walk in the group is as short as possible, so nobody does all the walking. "Coffee, tea & snacks" covers cafés, tea and bubble tea, juice bars, bakeries and dessert shops — never bars.
Subway and leave times: With "Walk + subway", each person's trip is the faster of walking or: walk to a station, wait, ride (with transfers), walk to the place. The wait is half the scheduled gap between trains at that hour, so "leave by" times include an average wait — on a line running every 10 minutes that's 5, at 3am it's much longer. Friends can start anywhere in the five boroughs; the meeting places are in the mapped area. Pick a meet time, or use the soonest one that works for everyone.
Hours: Judged at the time you'd arrive, in New York time. Hours exist only where OpenStreetMap has them (roughly a third of places), so "hide closed" only hides places known to be closed — unknown hours always stay visible.

What the labels mean

New: Has a Health Department permit but hasn't had its first inspection yet — usually a recent opening.
May have closed: No inspection in 18 months to 4 years, and no OpenStreetMap listing or curated list confirming it's still open. Well-run restaurants can go years between inspections, so these stay on the map with a warning rather than disappearing. Places with no inspection in over 4 years are left out.
Private access: Office cafeterias and staff kitchens also hold permits. They're detected from names ("employee cafeteria", "44th floor"), known corporate caterers, and caterer phone numbers shared across many permits — a heuristic, so a few will slip through either way.
Grade: The Health Department's letter grade, shown when it isn't an A.

Spotted something wrong — a closed place, a missing one, a bad match? The underlying data is public: places come from the city, and anyone can fix OpenStreetMap. Data is refreshed periodically.