Flavortown

Review by eFreeware

Planning a trip around restaurants you saw on television is harder than it sounds. The places featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives are scattered across the country, often in small towns, and piecing together which ones are near your route takes more browser tabs than most people want to open. Flavortown exists to close that gap.

It is a travel app from Grid Sixty, LLC, published under Travel & Local, and it gathers the show's featured restaurants into one searchable catalog. The pitch is straightforward: one place to look up the diners, drive-ins and dives, whether you are chasing a burger in a small-town diner or barbecue from a roadside smokehouse.

Finding what is close by

The feature the developer leads with is the Nearby button. Press it and the app asks for your current location, then surfaces the closest featured restaurants. That is the simplest path through the app, and for anyone already on the road it is likely to be the one used most.

What I like about this approach is that it turns the show's catalog into something you can act on rather than just browse. Instead of remembering a place from an episode and looking it up later, you can see what is within reach while you are still deciding where to eat. The location request is the trade-off: the Nearby function depends on granting it, so the app is only as useful as the permission you are willing to give.

Search, maps and planning ahead

Beyond the location button, Flavortown lets you search by state, city or address, and it includes a map for planning. The developer describes pre-planning as the main use case, noting that one of the two fans behind the app, Jennifer, plans trips this way when the pair heads to a new city.

That framing makes sense for how most people would use a guide like this. You are not usually standing in an unfamiliar town wondering where to eat; you are at home, working out an itinerary, and want to know which featured spots sit along the way. Searching by state or city supports exactly that kind of advance planning.

The details attached to each restaurant

Each entry carries the practical information you need to actually go: you can call ahead, pull up directions, open the restaurant's website or check its social media without leaving the app. Those links are the difference between a list of names and something you can use on the day.

The catalog is also maintained rather than fixed. The developer says new spots are added as the show discovers them, and the most recent update bears that out: seven new restaurants arrived in Arkansas and South Carolina, Chef Point Bar & Restaurant in Colleyville, Texas, was marked open again, and the community helped confirm that 14 restaurants have closed. The current count stands at 1,652 restaurants, of which 1,236 are open and 416 are closed. Videos are attached to 492 of them, up from 474.

What the app asks of you

Flavortown costs $0.99 up front. There are no ads and no in-app purchases, so the one-time price is the whole of what you pay to use it.

It also has two hard requirements: internet access and GPS enabled on your device. The location requirement follows from the Nearby feature. If you are heading somewhere with unreliable signal, that is worth factoring in before you set out.

How I would use it on a trip

The sensible pattern is to do the planning before you leave. Search by the state or city you are visiting, look at the map, and shortlist the restaurants that fit your route. Save the calls and directions for the day itself, when you can use the in-app links to check hours or confirm a table.

Once you are traveling, the Nearby button becomes the more useful tool, since it responds to wherever you happen to be rather than where you planned to be. The two modes complement each other: one for building the itinerary, one for adjusting it when the day goes differently than expected.

It is also worth remembering that this is a living catalog of restaurants, not a static list. Places close and reopen, and the app's updates reflect that. Checking the current status of a restaurant before making a special trip is a small habit that saves a wasted detour.

What the ratings suggest

Flavortown has been available since August 7, 2015, and the current version was updated on October 1, 2026. It has more than 5,000 installs and an average rating of 2.9 from 36 ratings. That is a modest score for an app with this much specific utility, and it is the kind of figure that usually points to a narrow audience rather than a broad one.

For a guide built by two fans of a single television show, that narrowness is not necessarily a flaw. It covers only the restaurants shown on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Readers who watch the show and plan travel around food will find a clear purpose here. Readers who want a general restaurant discovery tool will find the scope much tighter than that.

A useful companion for show-driven road trips

Flavortown is worth the $0.99 if you are the sort of traveler who picks destinations because of a television episode. The combination of a maintained catalog, nearby search, planning tools and direct links to each restaurant covers the practical side of visiting these places, and the absence of ads and in-app purchases keeps the experience uncluttered.

The requirements are the main thing to weigh. You need a connection and location services for the app to work as intended, and the catalog is limited to restaurants that have appeared on the show. Within those bounds, it does its job without much fuss.

I would recommend it to fans of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives who like to build trips around the places they have seen featured. It is a focused tool for a focused audience, and it is priced accordingly.

What's new in version 6.10.0

What's New: - 7 new restaurants added: Ramen Nara and Danger Dave's in Arkansas; Toffino's Italian Bakery Deli Pizzeria, Brisket, Seasons By 10/Fold, J-Mike's Flavor Station, and Old Town Crepes in South Carolina - Our community helped confirm that 14 restaurants have closed - Chef Point Bar & Restaurant - Colleyville in Texas is open again - 492 restaurants now feature videos, up from 474 - Catalog: 1,652 restaurants (1,236 open, 416 closed)