Tabelog - Food Guide in Japan

Easy to make reservation for large groups. I’m traveling as a family of 6

This app has one of the worst search functions I’ve ever used. It’s unbelievably bad. Even when I search using the exact restaurant name, I still get irrelevant results or can’t find it at all. The filters are a mess, the ranking makes no sense, and the whole search system feels completely broken. A restaurant review platform lives or dies by its search function, and somehow this app fails at the most basic task. It’s frustrating, time-consuming, and makes the app almost unusable. Stop adding unnecessary features and fix the search. Until then, this deserves one star.

Unlike the Japan version of Tabelog, this app has several limitations. While I understand and don’t mind not being able to submit reviews, the app only lets you save up to 40 listings. It also doesn’t allow you to create custom categories or mark restaurants as visited, which makes it much less useful for planning and tracking places.