Questions about safeat

safeat is a free map of restaurants where our review found no serious food-safety concern. It only shows places where recent reviews and visitor reports describe no serious food-safety problem: food poisoning, unsafe food, an allergen issue or a hygiene problem. It is an app for iPhone and Android.

Yes, safeat is free. The map and every place page work without an account. A free account is only needed to save places, send a report or scan a menu.

We read the negative public reviews (1 to 3 stars) of each restaurant from the last 12 months, and reports from visitors, looking for food poisoning, unsafe food, allergen issues and hygiene problems. A restaurant appears on the map only when we found no serious problem of this kind.

It means we checked the place and found no serious food-safety problem in its recent public reviews and visitor reports. The page of each place shows the month of that check. It is not an inspection or a guarantee.

No. safeat does not show every restaurant. A place can be missing because we have not checked it yet, or for other reasons. If a restaurant is not on the map, it does not mean we found a problem.

Orange areas are neighborhoods where we found food-safety concerns at more than a third of the restaurants we checked; red areas, at half or more. Restaurants where we found food-safety concerns are not on the map. An area describes a neighborhood, not any single restaurant in it.

No. We may have missed a review or a problem: we only read reviews from the last 12 months, and many problems are never posted online. safeat helps you choose; it cannot guarantee the hygiene, food safety or allergen safety of any restaurant.

Use safeat as a first filter only. Always tell the staff about your allergy and check with the restaurant before you eat, every time.

Today safeat covers Ko Pha-ngan, Patong, Ban Ao Nang, Ko Tao (Thailand). We add new cities regularly.

Yes. safeat is an app for iPhone and Android.

In the safeat app, open the Scan tab and take a photo of a restaurant menu, or choose one you already took. Each dish on the photo gets a green, orange or red dot for how risky it usually is for a traveler’s stomach: raw meat, fish and seafood are red, for example. Tap a dish to read what it is and what makes it riskier, in your language. The menu scan needs a free account and allows 20 menus a month. It is written by AI from your photo, so it can be wrong: it is about the dish in general, not the restaurant, and it is not medical or allergy advice.

Before sending a photo, the app makes it smaller and removes its metadata, such as where it was taken. Google Cloud Vision reads its text and Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, describes the dishes; neither uses it to train its models. safeat does not keep the photo or the result. Only photograph menus, not people.