Restaurant Awards vs Top500Bars
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Restaurant Awards
Discover restaurants globally recognized for their outstanding wine selections. This app provides access to over 3,800 award-winning establishments across 50 U.S. states and 80+ countries, offering a curated wine experience. Explore restaurant news, chef profiles, and editor recommendations.
- Search award-winning restaurants
- Global restaurant directory
- Discover exceptional wine lists
- Restaurant news and articles
- Chef and sommelier profiles
- Editor's top picks
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Wine Spectator's Restaurant Awards app will help you find restaurants with exceptional wine lists. Every featured dining destination - covering all 50 U.S. states and 80+ countries - has earned a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award for its dedication to wine. This app allows you to search through more than 3,800 award-winning restaurants to help you discover the ultimate wine experience. You’ll also find articles featuring the latest restaurant news, chef and sommelier profiles, our editors’ top picks and more.
Top500Bars
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Top 500 is an app dedicated to the global ranking Top 500 Bars. It means the app finds the closest cocktails bar, hotels bar, restaurants bar which are part of the Top 500 ranking all around the world, in a few seconds, wherever you are. Thanks to the localization you'll be able to see all the Top 500 Bars around you on a map or the distance to the closest one via another type of view. Every year, with the release of a new ranking, all the information are updated. You have access to the full ranking and it is accessible as well city by city to have an overview and help you to prepare your visit. Soon new possibilities, like being aware of events in these bars if you are in the same city. Thanks to a form, you can suggest venues that should be checked to be part of this ranking. If you are an owner of a venue list, contact us via the same form if you want to add more information about your venue. This is not a guide about all the venues in the world, but the most influential of them, selected thanks to influencers, journalists, industry specialists, and customers... because every opinion counts. Enjoy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Restaurant Awards at none against Top500Bars's shown. Restaurant Awards also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Restaurant Awards ships an update every 2 months, Top500Bars every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Restaurant Awards | Top500Bars |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | M. Shanken Communications, Inc. | Anthony Poncier |
In-app purchases
Restaurant Awards
No in-app purchases
Top500Bars
No in-app purchases
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