{"id":610921,"date":"2026-07-30T02:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610921\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T02:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:29:13","slug":"why-zendaya-tom-holland-and-i-love-this-restaurant-tracking-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610921\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Zendaya, Tom Holland, and I Love This Restaurant-Tracking App"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zendaya and Tom Holland<\/a> are embarking on an odyssey of their own\u2014a culinary one. As they travel to promote their new films, The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the newlyweds have been trying restaurants around the world with the help of the restaurant-tracking app Beli.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been on tour traveling to loads of amazing places, and Z\u2019s been using this app, and it has not let us down yet,\u201d Holland<\/a> recently shared on an episode of the Dish<\/a> podcast. \u201cIt\u2019s like this new social media for restaurants and food,\u201d he explained. When asked who in the Odyssey cast always knows the best food spots in town, his answer was resounding: It\u2019s Zendaya. \u201cShe\u2019s really into her food and trying food. She\u2019s very adventurous,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

When I saw this news, I thought something along the lines of: Celebrities, they\u2019re just like us! Zendaya and I have something in common, because I use Beli, too. Even before I started writing about restaurants<\/a>, cookbooks<\/a>, and food trends<\/a>, I\u2019ve always loved trying new places, and I\u2019ve been known to keep notes on my Notes app with categories like: \u201cBest Not-Too-Sweet Margarita\u201d and \u201cMatilda-level Chocolate Cake.\u201d So when a friend invited me to join Beli in 2024 (back when it was invite-only), it was a perfect match.<\/p>\n

For the unfamiliar: Built by Harvard Business School graduates, Beli is an app that allows users to track, rate, and review restaurants alongside your friends. It\u2019s been called the Gen Z Yelp<\/a>, and has reportedly overtaken Yelp<\/a> as the restaurant-rating app du jour for young diners. As a Gen Zer myself, I use Beli because I enjoy reading my friends\u2019 restaurant notes, and I love seeing pictures of the food before I go somewhere. You can look up a restaurant on Beli and see the vibe and ambience, menu, and more. And it tells you when you and a friend both want to try a restaurant, which is a cute way to get plans in motion. I also like that it\u2019s not public, because a lot of the time, while I may want to note something, I don\u2019t necessarily want to potentially affect the restaurant\u2019s business by posting a review about what might have been an off night.<\/p>\n

Of course, I don\u2019t love everything about Beli\u2014for example: the fact that you have to invite friends to unlock certain features, like the ability to search by dish name\u2014but overall, it\u2019s a fun way to keep track of restaurants I\u2019ve been to and ones I want to try. The fact that you can choose your audience gives it a refreshing intimacy\u2014there is vulnerability in sharing what you really think, even when it is just about a meal. You reveal your neuroses, your preferred French fry shape, the kind of lighting you like\u2014and you get a window into other people\u2019s restaurant moments, whether it\u2019s a picture of a stranger reaching for the last spoonful of a sundae, or a selfie of friends toasting in celebration. It can become a collective diary of sorts, an archive of the lives lived at restaurants.<\/p>\n

That window into your friends\u2019 lives and relationships can even lead to friendships. On Beli, one of my friends reconnected with a Hinge date she had blocked, and ended up becoming real friends with him. And as another friend told me, \u201cWhen I get a boyfriend, he\u2019ll definitely be hard-launched on Beli and probably not on Instagram at all.\u201d That same friend added that it\u2019s fun to be Beli friends with couples\u2014or frequent dining companions\u2014and see what each person had to say about the same meal. What does each person notice? What are the two sides to the story? Who ordered the better entr\u00e9e?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zendaya and Tom Holland are embarking on an odyssey of their own\u2014a culinary one. As they travel to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,518,19,17,14896,806],"class_list":["post-610921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-food","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-splitscreenimagerightinset","tag-web"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117006576112156769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}