Food Lover’s Guide to Paris Downloads & RevenueFood Lover’s Guide to Paris · App Store
Food Lover’s Guide to Paris is #40 in Food & Drink Paid in United States and charting in 13 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026Food Lover’s Guide to Paris update history & changes
Last change · 5 events since 17 Apr 2012Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 4 events in the last 12 months
- 📈Food Lover’s Guide to Paris entered the top 10Top Paid · Food & Drink · CA
- 📈Food Lover’s Guide to Paris charting in a new country in 2 chartsChina · Saudi Arabia
- 🆕Food Lover’s Guide to Paris first spotted by AppInsider#82 in Top Paid · Food & Drink · Japan
- 🆕Food Lover’s Guide to Paris released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Food & Drink PaidFood Lover’s Guide to Paris at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-09-28. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A paid iOS guide featuring over 500 curated Parisian dining and food shopping locations, designed for travelers seeking expert recommendations from food critic Patricia Wells. The app holds a strong #5 position in the Canadian Food & Drink Paid category but shows moderate traction elsewhere, ranking between #26 and #111 across major international markets.
Similar apps: Michelin Guide, Yelp, TripAdvisor
Food Lover’s Guide to Paris on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Food Lover’s Guide to Paris’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 1 collected anonymously.
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Where Food Lover’s Guide to Paris's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Food & DrinkPaid | #40 |
| Japan | Food & DrinkPaid | #74 |
 Brazil | Food & DrinkPaid | #26 |
 United Kingdom | Food & DrinkPaid | #65 |
 China | Food & DrinkPaid | #122 |
 South Korea | Food & DrinkPaid | #59 |
 India | Food & DrinkPaid | #41 |
 Canada | Food & DrinkPaid | #43 |
 Australia | Food & DrinkPaid | #54 |
 Russia | Food & DrinkPaid | #82 |
 Indonesia | Food & DrinkPaid | #73 |
 Saudi Arabia | Food & DrinkPaid | #108 |
 United Arab Emirates | Food & DrinkPaid | #79 |
Apps near Food Lover’s Guide to Paris on the chart
Food & Drink Paid, around #40.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Food Lover’s Guide to Paris
From the 40 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (55% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about not being useful, and recent updates. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Useful: “A must-have app for Paris”
- Ease of use: “Easy to use, smart, on target”
- Price & subscription: “More than worth the price!”
- Updates: “Not updated in at least a year”
Common complaints
- Useful: “Every recommendation was great”
- Updates: “also no indication of when a review was last updated”
- Features & content: “Decent content, weak functionality”
- Price & subscription: “Seriously don’t waste your money (or be surprised when you find the $5 bill for this app)”
About Food Lover’s Guide to Paris
Paris has been home to food critic, cookbook author, and cooking school teacher Patricia Wells for more than 35 years, and no one knows Paris’s culinary scene better. With this app, discover Patricia’s top picks of restaurants, cafes, wine bars, bakeries, pastry, chocolate and cheese shops, markets, wine shops, specialty food shops and kitchen and tableware shops.
Regularly updated, Patricia and her small but expert team are constantly expanding and fine-tuning their list of favorite gastronomic destinations. Visitors will find old favorites as well as new inspirations, covering every category from spots for quick bites to crêperies, sushi and dumpling treasures, as well as Michelin three-star haute cuisine restaurants.
“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
• 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 [email protected]
© 2017 Patricia Wells
