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The Telegraph
The Telegraph
28 May 2025
Susie Coen


Strava for restaurants: The app turning eating out into a competitive sport

Stumbling in from a cocktail-heavy night, the first thing Lindsay Wimms does when she gets back to her West Village flat is rank all the bars and restaurants she has been to.

No matter how viciously her head is spinning, or how late the hour, the 30-year-old corporate events planner will log into the restaurant rating app Beli and input every last drink.

“I drunkenly do it straight away, it’s like an addiction,” Ms Wimms, who is the 123rd top user on the app’s leaderboard, said. “I treat it like a sport.”

These days, they say if you don’t log your run on Strava, or post a sunkissed holiday snap to Instagram, did it even happen

Now, if you don’t rank your meal on Beli, did you even eat?

Before Beli, which launched as an invite-only app in 2021, foodies like Ms Wimms obsessively tracked their restaurants on colour-coded spreadsheets.

Ms Wimms, who moved to New York from London in 2020, is among more than one million foodies who exhaustively rate everywhere they eat and drink for the world to see on the app.