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theBEAT
For iPhone · App Store to follow · DC · MD · VA
The best dish near you, right now.
A dish-level rankings app for DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Picked by the room, with one tap for how you eat. Drop your email below for one note when it lands on the App Store.
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Every filter is free. Every tier.
Dietary, religious, and medical filters aren’t a paid feature — they’re how the rankings work. Tell theBEAT what you can eat, and every list — Tonight’s pick, the Hunt, the neighborhood rankings — re-sorts around it: green where we hold the venue’s own published word, amber with the question to ask the kitchen where we don’t.
Gluten-free
Dairy-free
Nut-free
Celiac Friendly
Halal
Kosher
Vegan
Calcium-forward
Filtered for what you can eat.
Gluten-free for the kid. Halal for the cousin. Nut-free for your partner. Every dietary, religious, and lifestyle filter — free, every tier.
Time-aware. "Best right now."
A breakfast list at 8am. A late-night list at 11 PM. Rankings re-cut by daypart, for the hour you're actually hungry.
Tonight's pick, waiting for you.
Every afternoon theBEAT picks one dish for your evening — chosen for the cuisines you like, the things you can't eat, the hour, and what's still open near you. Switch on the alert and it arrives when you say: 3:45 PM, or any hour that suits you better. Free shows a preview; Plus opens the full verdict.
Built for DC · MD · VA.
Washington, Bethesda, Silver Spring, Arlington, Alexandria, Baltimore, Annapolis. Locals who know the spot — and travelers about to.
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