Local Haunts: Local Eats

Every restaurant app shows you the same twenty famous places. Local Haunts shows you the ones around the corner. Search near you and get independent restaurants only. National chains are filtered out (not downranked, filtered out), so a taqueria two streets away is not buried under the burger chain on the main road. WHY IT FINDS DIFFERENT PLACES Most apps rank by prominence, which is a polite word for fame. Local Haunts runs every search twice, once by distance and once by prominence, and merges the two. In testing, that turned twenty results into thirty-odd and changed them from landmarks into neighborhood places. NO CHAINS Chains are filtered by name and by how many locations we have actually seen for them, so a regional favorite with four locations in one state stays, and a national brand with four hundred goes. It is not perfect in either direction, and there is a support address…