RideNDine
Your transit route has better food than you think.
Discover restaurants along your public transit route.
The problem
RideNDine started from my own transit journey.
When I started a new job in a different city, I found myself spending hours on public transit every day. After work, I often wanted to grab dinner on the way home, but finding restaurants that were actually convenient along my route meant checking stops and nearby restaurants one by one.
Google & Apple Maps make it easy for drivers to discover food along their route, but I found there wasn't the same experience for public transit. So, I built RideNDine to make finding food along your transit journey easier.
How it works
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Enter your route — Enter your starting point and destination to plan your trip.
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Pick your route — Choose the transit option that works best for you.
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Explore food options along the way — RideNDine finds restaurants within a ~5-minute walk of your transit path. Search by restaurant name, and tap a restaurant or map marker to see which line to take and where to get off. Tap a photo thumbnail to see more photos.
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Open in your maps app — Found somewhere you like? Open it directly in your preferred maps app for walking directions and navigation.
App coverage
In these metro areas, RideNDine uses official GTFS data to search at real bus stops and train stations along your route, so nearby restaurants are linked to real stops on your trip. Each feed covers a region, not a single city.
| Metro area | Country | Transit data |
|---|---|---|
| Metro Vancouver | Canada | TransLink |
| Toronto / near-GTA | Canada | TTC + GO Transit |
| Montréal | Canada | STM + REM |
| Seattle / Puget Sound | United States | Sound Transit + Metro |
| Portland metro | United States | TriMet |
| Chicago metro | United States | CTA + Pace |
| Greater Boston | United States | MBTA |
| Denver / RTD metro | United States | RTD |
| Austin | United States | CapMetro |
Elsewhere, RideNDine still works by sampling your transit path at regular intervals to find nearby restaurants. Results are less stop-specific, but discovery along your route still works.
Support for more transit systems is planned.
Usage limits
To help keep the app sustainable as a personal project, RideNDine currently allows up to 5 route searches within any rolling 24-hour period.
- kallui