Catch the bus. Find the bite. See what is happening nearby.

Bus to Bites connects bus travel, food and events in New York City, Chicago, London and San Francisco. Use my location to find a supported city, then search for your bus route. If you have already allowed location access, the app can select your city at startup without a new permission prompt. Change city is available when location is unavailable or your area is not supported. Route search works without location permission.

New York, Chicago and San Francisco support bus-number search; New York also supports run-number search. Live buses load after you search. City detection runs on your device and remembers your city choice without saving your coordinates.

CURRENTLY SUPPORTED

- United States: New York City, Chicago and San Francisco
- United Kingdom: London

San Francisco coverage is Muni buses only.

See route maps, stops, available arrival predictions and service alerts. Follow live bus positions in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. London shows TfL routes and stop predictions, without live bus positions or bus-number and run-number searches. Open external directions when you need to plan a trip.

Find restaurants, cafes, fast food and food courts directly along your selected bus route. Nearby checks walking routes to up to 20 of the closest places and shows those within an estimated 20-minute walk. Open walking directions for a route map and written instructions, or continue in Google Maps. Walking routes and times are provided by Geoapify using mapped pedestrian paths; times remain estimates. Food information comes from OpenStreetMap contributors and may be incomplete.

San Francisco food results show when the food map was saved and can use a saved catalog during temporary source outages. Expired catalog data is not shown.

Browse events from Ticketmaster and approved organizer submissions in all four cities, plus NYC Open Data in New York. Open a located event to explore nearby food, bus stops, available arrivals and service advisories. Event pages also include nearby bakeries, markets and other food shops where mapped. Vendor counts appear only when supplied by organizers; nearby businesses are separate from event vendors. Chicago permit listings are excluded.

Organizing something? Use Add Your Event to submit details for review. Only approved events appear publicly. Advertising and partnership inquiries are available in Settings.

Features:

- One app for New York City, Chicago, London and San Francisco
- Location-based city selection with a manual fallback when needed
- Search-first startup with no automatic citywide bus download
- Route maps, bus stops and available live arrival predictions
- Live MTA, CTA and Muni bus locations where available
- Walking maps and written directions powered by Geoapify
- Food along your route and Nearby food
- Events connected to nearby food and transit
- Organizer submissions reviewed before publication
- Service advisories and accessible text details
- No account required; core features are free

Bus to Bites is independent. It is not an official or MTA-licensed app and is not made or endorsed by the Chicago Transit Authority, Transport for London, SFMTA or 511.org. Chicago transit data is provided by Chicago Transit Authority. Powered by TfL Open Data. Data provided by 511.org (https://511.org).

Transit, food and event information may be delayed, incomplete or unavailable. Transit trip-planning links in all cities open an external service.