180 kitchen guides, annotated

Street-level field books
for every town we keep.

Each Platefolk town is minded by a resident who eats there weekly — the sort of guide who remembers which side door still serves after ten. Trace the atlas, type a town, or begin with the field books readers return to most.

18 field books
fresh since March ✎

Shelf favourites

Towns readers keep underlined

margin-note pick

New York

612 spots 12.4K writes Host: Jenna K.

Savannah

84 spots 1.9K writes Host: Marcus T.
Arizona

Phoenix

Dawn espresso under awnings, chile that jolts you awake, counters that fill before the sun bites.

127 spots 4.7
Oregon

Portland

Pour-overs stacked beside secondhand novels, plus the midnight ramen you star in the margin.

205 spots 4.8
Florida

Palm Beach

Pier-side catch plates, unhurried midday tables, and weekends that drift along the inlet.

58 spots 4.6
Florida

Port Orange

Compact shore strip, outsized sandwich folklore — Pizza City gets its own inked underline.

41 spots 4.5
Florida

Fort Lauderdale

Opinionated greens, pool-edge midday plates, and Cuban coffee that refuses to hurry you.

72 spots 4.6
California

Los Angeles

Lot-edge tacos, canyon drip bars, and floor staff who let the table set its own tempo.

384 spots 4.7
California

San Francisco

Chinatown steam carts, Mission pastry glass, bakeries smaller than most living rooms.

267 spots 4.8
Illinois

Chicago

Pie rooms that clock regulars on sight, Italian beef that earns every napkin.

218 spots 4.7
Texas

Austin

Easygoing Tex-Mex, solemn smoke pits, breakfast tacos that read like a local nod.

192 spots 4.7
Massachusetts

Boston

Wharf shacks, cannoli rivalries, coffee bars older than half the towers downtown.

148 spots 4.6
Washington

Seattle

Drip bars, yes — then a pho corridor that rivals home, dim sum taken slow on Sundays.

176 spots 4.8
Georgia

Atlanta

Comfort plates that recall your usual, hot-chicken corners, brunch worth the crosstown hop.

162 spots 4.7
Where the pins sit

180 towns on a single atlas

Scan the network by geography — every marker is a town with a living resident host. New field books arrive when enough readers petition for them.

View the atlas Nominate a town
Resident keepers

The voices tending each town guide

Roughly 48 volunteer hosts across Platefolk. Each one resides where they scribble. They spotlight margin notes, shape the town walk-throughs, and answer when someone needs tonight’s table.

Jenna K.
New York

87 entries · year 3

Marcus T.
Savannah

62 entries · year 2

Priya S.
Phoenix

94 entries · year 4

Daniel H.
Portland

136 entries · year 3

Nora A.
Boston

71 entries · year 2

Samir O.
Chicago

103 entries · year 4

Lucia M.
Los Angeles

158 entries · year 3

Kenji L.
Seattle

89 entries · year 2

See every host
Full roster

All 180 towns, alpha order

Sorted letter by letter so yours turns up fast. Tap a name to open its hand-kept kitchen list.

A
B
C
D
F
H / I / J
K / L / M
N / O
P
R / S / T
V / W
Town missing?

Fresh field books start when a resident writes in. Might that be you?

Most towns began with one margin note: "I eat on these blocks — please start a page." If that fits, send it over.

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