Lilia
"the cacio e pepe everyone gatekeeps"
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Dinner, decided.
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Tell us what you're craving and how far you'll walk. We'll pick the spot — the one a local would send you to, not the one with the most reviews.
Updated 14 min ago • Brooklyn
Here's what we'd send you to right now.
Three live picks from three neighborhoods. Refreshes every hour based on what's open, what's busy, and what locals are actually eating tonight.
Spicy Village
"hand-pulled noodles, no reservations, worth it"
opens 5pm
Frankies 457
"the meatballs are why you came"
table availableThree taps. One answer. Walk there.
No swiping through 40 photos. No reading 200 reviews. You tell it the mood, the radius, and whether you're solo or with people. It commits to one place.
What are you craving?
noodles
something cozy
date night
cheap and fast
I don't know
How far?
Walk here.
Lilia
Real locals. Real menus. No SEO sludge.
Every restaurant on the app is on it because someone who lives in that neighborhood put it there. We pay scouts in 14 cities to keep their lists current — when a spot closes, when the chef changes, when the hype is real and when it's not. The app is the friend you wish you had in every city.
14
cities, hand-picked.
847
local scouts on the ground.
4,200
spots curated, not scraped.
Free for casual nights. Five bucks if you want it always.
Free gets you three picks a week. Plus is unlimited picks, saved spots, and offline access for when you're traveling and your data is dead.
Plus
$4.99 / month
- Unlimited picks, every night
- Saved spots & private lists
- Offline access when traveling
- First dibs on new city launches
We're in these cities. Yours next.
If your city isn't here, drop it in. We add cities once we have at least 30 scouts on the ground.
New York
• 142 scouts38 neighborhoods
Brooklyn
• 84 scouts12 neighborhoods
Los Angeles
• 96 scouts22 neighborhoods
San Francisco
• 71 scouts14 neighborhoods
Chicago
• 62 scouts11 neighborhoods
Austin
• 48 scouts9 neighborhoods
Portland
• 41 scouts8 neighborhoods
Boston
• 39 scouts7 neighborhoods
Seattle
• 36 scouts9 neighborhoods
Philadelphia
• 34 scouts8 neighborhoods
Washington DC
• 33 scouts10 neighborhoods
Mexico City
• 58 scouts13 neighborhoods
London
• 67 scouts15 neighborhoods
Tokyo
• 36 scouts11 neighborhoods
Why I built this.
I moved to a new city and spent six months eating at the wrong places. Every search ended in a Yelp tab with 4.2 stars and 1,800 reviews and food that was fine. The places I actually loved I found because someone who lived there told me. This app is that person, in your pocket, in 14 cities. — Mei, founder.