Where our place data comes from
The names, addresses, coordinates, phone numbers, websites, social links and category tags on this site are drawn from open global place datasets, principally Overture Maps, a collaborative, openly licensed map of the world, and Foursquare Open Source Places. Both are published under permissive licences that allow reuse with attribution, which we provide here and in the footer of every page. We deliberately do not scrape proprietary directories or map services, and we do not join in OpenStreetMap data, to keep our licensing boundaries clean.
Open data is never perfect. A small share of records may be out of date, a venue may have moved or closed, or a category may be coarse. Where the source marks a place as closed we exclude it. Owners can correct anything that is wrong (see below), and we welcome it.
How a listing is compiled
Each restaurant page is generated from a single source record, never stitched together from many pages. For every venue we keep only the fields we genuinely hold: the name, address, location on the map, and whichever of phone, website and social profile the source provides. We add context that is computed from real data, such as how many restaurants of the same cuisine are in that city and district, and a short, general description of the cuisine type itself.
The descriptive text on a page is grounded in that venue's actual fields and in widely known facts about the cuisine. It is not a generic paragraph with a name dropped in, and it never asserts anything specific we have not verified, no invented opening hours, no made-up menu, no fictional house specialities.
Our review policy
Ratings and reviews on e.restaurant come only from real diners who submit them here. We do not scrape reviews from other platforms, we do not buy them, and we do not generate them. A listing shows a star rating only once it has at least one genuine review from our own community; until then it simply shows no rating, rather than a borrowed or invented one.
For the same reason, our structured data (the machine-readable schema search engines read) includes an aggregate rating only when a real review exists. We would rather a page carry no rating than a fake one.
Photos
Most listings show a stylised, clearly decorative illustration of the cuisine, not a photograph of the specific venue. We label these as illustrations so no one mistakes them for a real photo of the place. Genuine photography is added only where we have the rights to use it, and owners can upload their own.
How to claim or correct a listing
If you own or manage a restaurant listed here, you can claim its page for free. Claiming lets you correct the details, add your opening hours, publish your menu, upload real photos and keep your contact information current. Open your restaurant's page and use the "Claim this listing" link, or email owners@e.restaurant with the restaurant name and the correction you need. We action genuine owner requests promptly.
Who is behind it
e.restaurant is an independent directory with the simple goal of helping people find a good table by craving, cuisine, neighbourhood or distance, anywhere we have coverage. We are expanding country by country, starting with Turkey and the Netherlands, and we hold ourselves to one rule above all: every page must rest on real, verifiable information.