California Eats: the taquería & dim sum guide for iPhone and iPadCalifornia's restaurants, starting with the taquería
Al pastor, har gow, a carne asada burrito after the beach: California Eats starts from what you're hungry for. It puts 363 taquerías and 53 dim sum houses we checked by hand next to 103,585 restaurants, cafés and bars in 1,126 California towns, with MICHELIN and James Beard honors and the inspection results Los Angeles County, San Francisco and Sacramento County publish.
- 363taquerías
- 53dim sum houses
- 78MICHELIN-starred
- 103,585restaurants
Built around how California eats
California Eats begins with the food people here plan a day around: al pastor and carnitas, Sunday dim sum, a foil-wrapped burrito, Baja fish tacos, galbi on a tabletop grill, a walk-up burger stand, and dining rooms that have been open for generations. Those lists were checked by hand in October 2026, and nothing in them is sorted by stars. Where Los Angeles County, San Francisco and Sacramento County publish inspection results, a place shows its county's latest one, and every place opens its own Apple Maps card for ratings, hours and photos.
Using California Eats
Choose what you're after.
Start from Taquerías, Dim Sum, Burritos, Fish Tacos, Korean BBQ, Burger Stands, Wine Country, MICHELIN & James Beard, Oldest Places or Inspections, or type a name, town, street or dish to search 103,585 places.
Narrow it down.
Put the closest first, keep to one of 9 regions, one town or one kind of food, or switch to the map. Hand-checked places show what their own menus list.
Head out.
Open the place's Apple Maps card for hours and photos, call ahead, get directions, or save it for the weekend.
Inside the app
Every guide, one screen.
Taquerías, closest first.
A place's page, with its county result and Apple Maps.
Hand-checked places on the map.
Honors, listed as facts.
The hand-checked lists
Each one is on the web too. The app adds distance, the map and saved places.
California taquerías
363 taquerías, checked open.
California dim sum
53 dim sum houses, checked open.
Mission & California burritos
86 burrito shops, checked open.
California fish tacos
87 fish taco spots, checked open.
California Korean barbecue
74 Korean barbecue restaurants, checked open.
California burger stands
19 burger stands, checked open.
Wine-country restaurants
31 restaurants, checked open.
MICHELIN & James Beard
78 starred restaurants, 114 Bib Gourmands and James Beard honorees.
Oldest restaurants
18 places with a sourced opening year.
California restaurants by city
From San Diego to Sacramento: the hand-checked places nearby, local MICHELIN and James Beard honors, and the kinds of food each big town has most of.
What it costs: nothing
There's no subscription, no ad, nothing to unlock and no login. Every list ships inside the app, so it opens quickly and keeps working when the signal drops on Highway 1 or up in the Sierra.
What the app knows about you: nothing
California Eats has no analytics and no account, and it sends us nothing. Turn on location and it's used on your phone to sort by distance; saved places stay there too. This site uses no cookies or trackers. The privacy policy has the details.
Questions about California Eats
Does California Eats cost anything?
No. Downloading and using it is free: there are no ads, nothing to buy inside the app and no sign-up.
How did the taquerías and dim sum houses make the list?
By hand, in October 2026. Every taquería, dim sum house, burrito shop, fish taco spot, Korean barbecue restaurant, burger stand and wine-country restaurant on a list has a 2025 or 2026 source of its own: a menu page, an ordering page it runs, or a dated local news story. The rest of the app's 103,585 restaurants, cafés and bars come from Overture Maps' open place data, county food-facility records and California ABC license data.
What do LA County's A, B and C restaurant grades mean?
They're Los Angeles County's own letter grades from a restaurant's latest inspection: A for a score of 90 to 100, B for 80 to 89, C for 70 to 79. Seven cities that never adopted grade cards show the score alone, and Pasadena, Long Beach and Vernon run their own health departments, so LA County's grades don't cover them. The app shows each grade exactly as the county recorded it.
Why is there no health grade for San Diego restaurants?
San Diego County publishes its grades only through a search page, not as a data file, so the app doesn't show them; it uses the county's permit list to measure how often map listings match a permitted restaurant. Inspection results in the app come from Los Angeles County, San Francisco and Sacramento County, each on its own scale and never compared with another county's.
Where do the ratings come from?
Not from us: California Eats gives no ratings of its own, and no list in it is ordered by ratings. Opening a place shows Apple Maps' own card inside the app, with Apple's ratings, hours, photos and directions. MICHELIN stars and James Beard awards appear as facts, the way MICHELIN's 2026 California selection and the James Beard Foundation announced them, and a finalist is never called a winner.
Do I have to share my location?
No. It's only used to put the nearest places first, it stays on your iPhone or iPad, and it never reaches us. Guides, search and the map all work with it off.
A taquería closed, or a place is missing. How do I report it?
Write to nick@eatsranked.com with the place's name and town, and the fix goes into the next update.
Will there be an Android app?
Not for now: California Eats is built for iPhone and iPad. On an Android phone, the web search on this site works in the browser, and if you'd use an Android app, say so at nick@eatsranked.com.
Find your taquería
California Eats for iPhone and iPad will be free when it reaches the App Store. Until then, ask us for early access, or use the search right here.