Food Lover’s (Sample) vs The MICHELIN Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Food Lover’s (Sample)
Explore Paris's best culinary destinations with an authoritative guide. Discover over 500 tested locations, filter by cuisine, neighborhood, or price, and view them on a map. Includes a glossary of French culinary terms and offline capabilities.
- Over 500 culinary destinations
- Search by cuisine, neighborhood, price
- Map with offline geolocator
- Glossary of French culinary terms
- Bookmark favorite addresses
- Regularly updated commentary
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A sample of the most authoritative guide to eating well in the City of Light is now available as an application for iOS. “Food lovers rejoice! You can now tour Paris with Patricia Wells, the city’s most reliable guide to its very best spots. Her app is fast and easy to use, chock-full of terrific information and a great read. In other words, it’s a delicious must-have.” Dorie Greenspan, author of Dorie’s Cookies and Around My French Table FEATURES OF THE FULL VERSION • Discover more than 500 of the city’s ultimate culinary destinations, tested by Patricia and her team and regularly updated with detailed dependable commentary. • Search by category using a filter to refine your search by cuisine type, neighborhood, details such as Michelin stars or gluten-free, atmosphere, price, and culinary specialties. • Browse the app contents by category or neighborhood, or by restaurant specifics such as price, cuisine type, specialties or restaurant details like vegetarian-friendly or Michelin-star rating. • A map of Paris shows the location of all the addresses in the guide (use the filter to limit the addresses to those you are interested in). An offline geolocator allows you to see your location even when you’re not connected to the internet. • A-Z glossary of French culinary terms to help translate menus on the spot. • Bookmark your favorite addresses, and access Patricia’s current favorites and seasonal recommendations in the Picks section. • English language only. ABOUT PATRICIA Patricia Wells, author and former Washington Post and New York Times journalist, was global food critic for the International Herald Tribune for more than 25 years. She has written five print editions of The Food Lover’s Guide to Paris and 14 other books, including Bistro Cooking and Trattoria. With her husband, Walter, Patricia has lived in France since 1980 and also teaches classes at her popular cooking school – At Home with Patricia Wells – in Paris and Provence. For more information visit www.foodloversparis.com To offer feedback or report issues on the App, email bon.app@foodloversparis.com © 2017 Patricia Wells
The MICHELIN Guide
Discover and book top-rated restaurants and hotels worldwide. Plan your next trip with curated selections, create personalized lists, and access exclusive perks. Expert travel assistance is also available.
- Global restaurant and hotel listings
- Instant booking for hotels
- Create and share favorite place lists
- Exclusive hotel upgrades and amenities (Plus membership)
- Expert travel specialist assistance
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Stay in amazing places. Eat unforgettable meals. Take the MICHELIN Guide app wherever you go. The MICHELIN Guide app puts the world’s best restaurants and hotels right in your pocket — and lets you book them. It marks the first time in history that the entire global guide — every restaurant in every location — is all together, all in one place. The app also includes the new and improved MICHELIN Guide hotel selection. Now you can instantly book the world’s most unique and exciting hotels, each one chosen for their extraordinary style, service, and personality. The MICHELIN Guide app makes it easier than ever to plan your next adventure or enhance your current one. Use it to quickly find and reserve restaurants and hotels near you or in a future destination; create and share lists of all your favorite places; or trial our “Plus” membership and receive free VIP upgrades and amenities at participating hotels. Need concierge-level care? Our expert travel specialists are waiting just a click away, available to assist with any aspect of your trip. They’re real people, ready to help you go places. So get going. Find great restaurants & hotels in each MICHELIN Guide city. Book amazing hotels wherever you find yourself. Download the app today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The MICHELIN Guide at 4.9 against Food Lover’s (Sample)'s 3.0. The MICHELIN Guide also leads on review sentiment (41% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months). Food Lover’s (Sample)'s advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, 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.
The MICHELIN Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The MICHELIN Guide has 7.6K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Food Lover’s (Sample)'s written reviews are positive against 41% of The MICHELIN Guide's.
Food Lover’s (Sample) ships an update every 4 months, The MICHELIN Guide every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Food Lover’s (Sample) | The MICHELIN Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.9 (7.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 40.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #183 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 171 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Food Lovers & Co. Inc | Tablet Inc |
Customer experience
Food Lover’s (Sample)
The MICHELIN Guide
Bugs and requests
Food Lover’s (Sample)
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
The MICHELIN Guide
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch
- Location services not working as expected
- Search functionality not returning relevant results
- Inability to save or access user-created lists
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to search by cuisine, price range, and other filters
- Map view with location-based recommendations
- User-generated reviews and photos
- Offline mode for accessing content without internet
- Landscape mode support for tablets
In-app purchases
Food Lover’s (Sample)
No in-app purchases
The MICHELIN Guide
No in-app purchases
Questions
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