About Us — An Independent Food & Travel Magazine

Built by people who eat for a living

Taste Travel Guide started, like a lot of good ideas, around a kitchen table in Newark, New Jersey. We were the friends everyone texted before a trip — "where should I actually eat in Rome?" — and after answering the same questions a hundred times, we decided to write the answers down properly.

What grew out of that is a small, independent magazine devoted to a single idea: that the best way to understand a place is to eat your way through it. We're writers, cooks and obsessive travellers, and we believe a city's food tells you more about it than any monument ever could.

Food, to us, is the most honest map there is. It tells you what a place grows and catches, who settled there and who passed through, what people can afford and what they save for celebrations, how they treat strangers and how they treat one another. You can read a thousand words about a city's history, or you can sit at a market counter for an hour and taste it. The smoke of a Oaxacan grill, the snap of a Roman pizza crust, the hush of a Kyoto tea house, the roar of a Bangkok night market — each one is a chapter, and each one says more than a guidebook's worth of facts.

So everything we make is in service of getting you to those chapters: prepared, confident and hungry. We are not interested in being the biggest travel site on the internet, and we are definitely not interested in being the loudest. We just want to be the one you actually trust when you are planning the meal you will remember for years.

Our editorial principles

We hold ourselves to a few simple rules, and we'd rather lose a reader than break them.

We pay our own way

Nobody buys their way into our guides. We don't run sponsored reviews, we don't accept free meals in exchange for coverage, and no restaurant, tourism board or brand has any say in what we write or how we rank it. If a place is in our guide, it earned its way there on the plate.

We write long, and we write honestly

The internet is full of thin, interchangeable travel content built to rank on search engines rather than to help anyone. We go the other way. Our guides are long because eating well in an unfamiliar city genuinely requires context — the dishes, the timing, the neighbourhoods, the etiquette. We'd rather publish one guide we're proud of than ten we're not.

We're upfront about money

Good independent writing has to be paid for somehow. We keep the magazine free by earning a small commission when readers use our flight search and go on to book a trip — at no extra cost to them. That funding never touches our editorial. We explain exactly how it works on our affiliate disclosure page, because transparency is the price of your trust.

A magazine and a search tool — not a travel agency

To be completely clear about what we are: Taste Travel Guide is a publisher and a flight comparison service. We are not an airline, a tour operator or a travel agency. We don't sell tickets, we don't take bookings, and we never handle your payment or your card details.

When you use our flight search and choose a fare, you book and pay directly with the airline or online travel agency you select, on their own secure site and under their own terms. They issue your ticket and provide your customer service. Our job is simply to help you find the meal worth travelling for — and an affordable way to reach the table.

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