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Top Rated Network is an independent editorial publisher of ten city-scale restaurant guides — each reported by locals, each covering the restaurants its city actually dines at, none of them taking payment for placement.
We started in Las Vegas with a single site and the belief that every American city deserves a serious, opinionated, operator-run guide to its dining scene. Four years in, we publish ten of them — from the Valley of the Sun to the edges of the Mississippi Delta — under one editorial standard and one shared framework.
Midnight-edition magazine to the Valley's dining scene — Chinatown to the Arts District to the Strip, by locals who won't lie to you for a free meal.
A Sonoran-edition weekly from the Valley of the Sun — Downtown, Old Town Scottsdale, and the South Mountain farms the resort corridor forgot.
The guide to the most ethnically diverse dining city in America — Montrose, the Heights, Bellaire Chinatown, and the Vietnamese corridor from Midtown south.
From the Buford Highway corridor to Westside to the new Decatur rooms — the guide to one of the great American dining cities, currently in the middle of its best decade.
Past the hot-chicken line at Prince's, past the honky-tonks on Lower Broadway, to the dining rooms of East Nashville, The Nations, and 12 South.
A weekly letter from the Valley — Yountville to St. Helena to Calistoga — reported from inside the dining rooms the winemakers actually eat at on a Tuesday.
Bishop Arts, Deep Ellum, Lower Greenville, and the quiet food corridor of Trinity Groves — the guide to the Dallas that eats after 9 p.m.
South End to NoDa to Plaza Midwood — the guide to the Queen City's dining scene, quietly becoming one of the Carolinas' best.
The Pearl, Southtown, Monte Vista, and the West Side taquerías — a heritage-edition guide that takes San Antonio's dining scene as seriously as its own locals do.
A classic-broadsheet guide to Central Arkansas — Doe's, Lassis Inn, and the SoMa dining corridor the rest of the country hasn't fully caught up to.
Top Rated Network LLC is an independent, veteran-owned editorial publisher headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. We operate ten city-scale restaurant guides in the United States — each one a distinct editorial brand, each one reported and maintained by locals, all of them published on a shared framework built and run by the same people who run the publications.
The company is a one-person operation by design. The founder is the publisher, the engineer, and, most weeks, the person who answers the email. Our software arm, WebIgniter, licenses the same framework to select operators looking to build their own niche directories or restaurant websites.
We do not take sponsored placements. We do not run "top-rated" lists in exchange for payment. We accept advertising; we disclose advertising; and we keep it cleanly separated from the editorial rankings that make the sites worth reading in the first place.
Restaurants cannot pay to appear on the list, in the guides, or in the editorial write-ups. We sell advertising; we do not sell rankings.
Every city is reported by people who live in it. No flying in for a weekend, no press-trip dinners. If the editor doesn't eat there on their own time, it does not make the list.
The Top Ten on every city site is debated, drafted, and signed off on by a room of locals every Monday. It is not an algorithm. It is an opinion.
Ratings and review counts from Yelp, TripAdvisor, and Google are shown where they help. They do not determine the list. They inform it.
Fast food, national casual-dining, and franchise steakhouses are not considered for the editorial lists. The city belongs to the independent operators.
Every city list is revised weekly. Restaurants close. Rooms change hands. A 2024 ranking cannot be a 2026 recommendation. We maintain the backlist.
When we get something wrong — and we do — we correct it on the page, with a note, dated. No silent edits. No memory-holing.
Advertising is accepted, marked, and visually separated from editorial on every page. If a restaurant is advertising on a page, it says so in plain English above the placement.
Every editor, every contributor, every advertiser is listed on the public masthead of each city brand. The people who write the guide are the people whose names are on it.
Our advertising inventory is small by design — display, sponsored-post, newsletter, and featured-listing placements across all ten city brands, with clean editorial/ad separation on every page. Media kit available on request.
Top Rated Network publications are frequently quoted in local and national dining coverage. Interview requests, fact-checks, and press-trip coordination all go through the same single email below.
If you want to know where Arkansas actually eats, read the Top of Little Rock list. Every week. I'm not kidding.— Arkansas Times
A network of city dining guides that treats its readers like adults and its restaurants like beat reporting.— Food & Wine
The operator-run model Top Rated Network has quietly built is the most sensible thing to happen to regional food media in a decade.— Nieman Lab
No routing, no auto-reply. The email addresses below go to the people responsible for the work, and they answer.
Top Rated Network LLC
Las Vegas, Nevada
United States