City by city, plate by plate
Tonight we're eating
Foods Nearby is a local food guide for the meal in front of you: which trucks are out, what the market has this week, and the dish worth crossing town for.
No paid placements. No invented listings. Ever.
Built city by city What you'll find
Three ways to decide where to eat tonight
Every city guide opens the same three doors. No infinite scroll of everything nearby, no sponsored placement at the top. Just the food worth leaving the house for.
Food trucks Where the trucks park, how to spot a good one before you order, and what a line actually tells you. 
Farmers markets Real dates and venues, plus how to shop a market like someone who cooks for a living. 
Dish guides One dish, done properly: what makes a great version and where to find it once we have verified it. City by city
Starting with one city, done properly
We build one city at a time. A guide is only published when there is enough verified food in it to be useful on a Tuesday night.
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Request a city →In season · November
What's good right now
Late autumn is the best argument for cooking at home: squash with real sweetness, brassicas that improve after a frost, and apples that still snap.
It is also the season when a market stall is easiest to read. Fewer things are on the table, so what is there is usually at its peak. Look for hard squash with a dry stem, greens with crisp stems, and apples that feel heavy for their size.
From the field notes
The rule we cook by in November
Buy the thing that looks like it was picked this week, not the thing that looks like a photograph. A slightly bruised squash from a farm stand will beat a perfect one that crossed an ocean, every time.
More practical advice in how to read a farmers market like a chef.
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