Culinayr
Discover and share your favorite dishes.
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July 23, 2026
I spent the last year building Culinayr.
I wanted a place where every dish could be discovered, rated, and shared.
Culinayr lets you search 568,000+ dishes from 17,000 restaurants across Los Angeles and Orange County, see what people actually recommend, and discover your next favorite meal.
You can search for exactly what you’re craving, compare dishes across restaurants, explore by cuisine, ingredients, dietary preferences, or price, and see ratings and reviews for the dish itself.
The long-term vision is simple: every dish should have its own identity.
I’d really appreciate honest feedback from fellow builders.
Is the idea immediately clear?
What would you improve first?
Is there anything that would make you actually use it?
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"The long-term vision is simple: every dish should have its own identity" stood out to me.
Was there a moment while building Culinayr where you realized you were actually indexing dishes rather than restaurants, and what convinced you that was the right abstraction to build around?