EigenFlavor

Most restaurant review sites try to answer the wrong question.

They ask: “How good is this restaurant, on average?”
We ask: “How much will you like it?”

There is no global score here—because global scores are meaningless. A tasting-menu temple and a minimalist bistro don’t compete on the same axis, and neither benefits from being flattened into a single number.

Instead, this platform works more like Netflix’s recommendation engine than Yelp.

Brutal Honesty Isn’t Rude — It’s Essential

On most review sites, people feel pressure to “be nice.”
Five stars here, four stars there. Everything blurs together.

That helps no one.

How It Works

Rate the Pittsburgh fine dining spots you've visited. Be brutally honest — this isn't about being nice or fair to restaurants. It's about capturing your genuine taste preferences so we can find your culinary soulmates.

Behind the scenes, we build a correlation matrix that maps how similarly different reviewers rate restaurants. If you and another reviewer both loved Altius but were underwhelmed by the menu at Morcilla, you're probably going to agree on other places too.

The clever part: we use transitive relationships. Even if you and another reviewer haven't rated the same restaurants, we can infer your likely agreement through chains of similar tasters. Think of it as "friends of friends" for your palate — the system discovers hidden connections between taste preferences across the entire network.

One last thing—this model doesn’t lend itself to advertising, and that’s by design. Once recommendations are influenced by sponsors, they stop being honest, and the entire system collapses. A taste-based engine only works if its incentives are aligned with the people using it, not with whoever paid for placement. That means that in the long run, this will be a paid service. For now, though, it’s free. If this becomes something you rely on to choose where you eat, we’ll eventually ask you to support it directly—because accuracy, independence, and integrity are the product.