Most restaurant guides try to answer the same question: which restaurant is the best?

A new Prague-based project called Voutie is taking a different approach. Instead of ranking restaurants as a whole, it focuses on something much more specific: individual dishes.

The idea began with a simple conversation at home.

One evening, the founder’s wife was craving sushi and asked a familiar question: where can you get really good sushi in Prague?

“It made me realize how often I was asking the same thing myself,” the founder says.

Whether it is sushi, pizza, kebab, burgers or lasagne, many people are not necessarily looking for the city’s best restaurant overall. They just want to know where to find the best version of the food they feel like eating that day.

The concept is straightforward. Each registered user receives one vote per category and can assign it to the restaurant they believe serves the best version of that particular dish. If they later discover a place they like more, they can move their vote.

One of the best things about Voutie is that every place on the platform is there because it is someone’s favourite for a specific dish.

The goal is to keep rankings current and reflect changing tastes rather than creating a static list.

Today, users can vote in categories including sushi, pizza, burger, kebab, steak and lasagne, with more categories expected to be added over time.

The platform also avoids negative reviews altogether. Users do not rate restaurants poorly or leave critical comments. Instead, they simply vote for the places they enjoy most.

 

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“We wanted to create something that rewards restaurants people genuinely love rather than another place where businesses are criticised,” the founder explains.

Interest has grown steadily since launch. Roughly two months after going live, Voutie surpassed 1,000 registered users and collected more than 1,800 votes across its categories.

The long-term ambition extends beyond Prague. The team hopes to expand the platform to other Czech cities, including Brno and Ostrava, and eventually into neighbouring countries.

For now, however, the focus remains on building a stronger community of food lovers in the capital and helping answer one of the most common questions people ask each other every day:

Where should I go when I’m craving something specific?

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