About Tastet
Bonjour. Hi. Welcome to the table.
Tastet is a gastronomic legacy of more than 40 years that has become a global tech platform. A guide where no restaurant pays to be featured. A team that truly tastes. And a mission: to democratize quality gastronomy, city by city.
A family story.
Tastet was born from a deep culinary heritage. Jean-Philippe Tastet, a restaurant critic for more than 30 years, helped define restaurant criticism in Quebec: with rigor, independence, and integrity.
Inspired by this tradition, Élise Tastet founded Tastet in 2013 to create a modern and reliable guide to the best local addresses — a guide where no establishment pays to be featured.
Today, this credibility, patiently earned, becomes the foundation of a global gastronomic platform, proudly rooted in Canada.
Making every meal a success.
Each Tastet address is evaluated by our editorial team according to a rigorous grid, calibrated over ten years. No automated anonymous visits. No paid rankings. Human fieldwork, real forks, and an institutional memory of more than 5,000 articles.
- Food quality
- Service and hospitality
- Decor and atmosphere
- Noise level
- Value for money
- Uniqueness of the place
In total, more than 40 exclusive criteria define our reading of an address, including dimensions absent elsewhere. We find the best addresses — but for whom, what budget, what occasion, ideal for whom. We want to match the right customer with the right establishment: guiding the search and the choice to manage expectations as well as possible.
Three principles we will never negotiate.
— No restaurant pays to be featured.
No restaurant, café, or bar has paid, pays, or will ever pay to appear on Tastet. It’s non-negotiable since 2013. Advertising is exclusively reserved for related businesses — products, events, brands.
— Transparency over objectivity.
We don’t believe in absolute objectivity. We believe in transparency. We try every address with our grid and position it for what it has best to offer: sometimes the price is high, but the experience is worth it; sometimes the service is slow, but it’s so charming that it’s worth it. Our mission: to advise you so that every recommended address represents as closely as possible what you were looking for.
— If we talk about it, it’s because it’s good.
We highlight the positive rather than point out the negative. We deeply respect the work behind every address. If an address doesn’t meet our criteria, we don’t talk about it. And if an address no longer meets our criteria, we remove it from our database.
A tech platform beneath the guide.
Behind every recommendation, there’s an infrastructure built to scale without diluting editorial quality. Tastet has integrated technology since 2019 — today, it’s a B2B SaaS engine used by international brands.
— 56,000 proprietary data points.
1,400+ addresses curated according to more than 40 exclusive criteria. A grid calibrated over 10 years that describes each place along dimensions found nowhere else: occasion, atmosphere, noise level, ideal for whom.
— Recommendation engine
Hybrid search and ML personalization to suggest the right address at the right moment.
— Editorial AI pipeline
100% of addresses are tested by humans; interviews are conducted by humans. We use AI to optimize our processes and standardize our products, without compromise.
— Multi-tenant B2B SaaS
API, widgets, white-label applications, per-client analytics dashboards. Our platform already powers airlines, hotels, and major Canadian brands: each client designs their own gastronomic guide with our data.
Happy discoveries.
Whether you’re a food lover, a restaurateur, a brand, or a future partner — there’s a door for you.
