Top Tier Eats is a best-of food app built around one simple idea: the people closest to a category are the best people to tell you what's great in it. A pit-master ranks barbecue. A pastry chef ranks bakeries. A regular who has eaten every taco in the city ranks the taco trucks.

Instead of infinite reviews with no point of view, Top Tier asks each curator a sharper question: what's your Top 5?

That's it - five picks, ranked #1 to #5. No filler. No bottom-of-the-barrel choices padded in. When a curator gives you only four, that's honest signal too.

No star ratings. No letter grades. If a place earned a spot, it's already top tier - the only question is where it lands.

WHAT YOU GET

- Ranked Top 5s: every list is capped at five, so making the cut means something. The top three get the podium - gold, silver, bronze.

- City Consensus: locals' rankings blend into one rolling leaderboard per category, growing as more locals rank - tap through to the full consensus behind each place.

- Real people: locals and category obsessives who put their names on their picks.

- 63 US cities, from NYC and LA to New Haven, Albuquerque, and Savannah.

- Signature dishes done right: New Haven apizza, Chicago deep dish, Albuquerque green chile, Boston lobster roll, Memphis barbecue, St. Louis pork steak, Detroit Coney dogs.

- Taste Match: find the curators whose palate actually lines up with yours, and follow them.

- Built for browsing: category view, map view, deep place pages, and a "What's new in your city" rail that surfaces fresh categories as they land.

Editorial picks in every city, selected from trusted local food publications. Join as a curator and publish your own Top 5s.

Free. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases.

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