We are a multidisciplinary team of food & drink obsessed Bangkokians who are constantly asking - and being asked - “Where's a good place to eat now?” We are motivated by the belief that there is no single reliable source covering the capital, whether it be lifestyle media or for-profit ratings agencies staffed by supposedly expert panels or platforms that churn out user-generated content, that can be relied upon to answer this question.
Annual “best of” lists and awards recognize excellence but are better understood as entertainment (and a business) and/or a snapshot of one moment in time than an ongoing consumer resource. What's hot today may drop out of the limelight tomorrow. Standards slip, teams solidify, chefs are swapped, customer bases shift, success ebbs and flows. Change is the only constant.
The individual consumer lacks the resources - time, mostly, but also expertise - to discover and compare multiple credible sources in the hope of coming to a conclusion on a single restaurant, let alone a handful of viable choices.
Tabehodai.co seeks to solve this problem with real-time analysis of reviews and comments by professional food media as well as consumers, international and local institutions, and on-the-ground posts by particularly knowledgeable social media influencers. It is designed to be a dynamic index that never loses its relevance, no matter how the food landscape in Bangkok changes.