Top 3 Favourite Places: Name Yours, Poutine Included

Your top 3 favourite places are the three you would send a friend to for one kind of food, ranked first to third. Mosey asks about the town you are in, one question per visit, and Canadian phones get a poutine question beside coffee, brunch and pizza. Your answers stay in a private list you can edit whenever you like.

What is the poutine question?

Top 3 works from a set of everyday questions, and the set follows the market. In Canada the set includes poutine, in the slot where phones in the United States get barbecue. The app asks where the best place for poutine is, you name up to three, and you rank them. Nothing else about the question changes, and nobody tells you what the right answer is.

The rest of the Canadian set is familiar: coffee, a restaurant and brunch come first, then pizza, burgers and your favourite meal, breakfast, pastries and a date night, then Italian, Chinese and Mexican food. Indian food, poutine and bagels follow, and then sushi, good value and Spanish food. There are occasion questions as well, such as a birthday meal, catching up with friends, a family dinner, a business lunch, eating outside and a hidden gem.

How do you rank your top 3 favourite places?

Open a question from the Top 3 card on Home, search for a place by name and tap to add it. Number 1 is your favourite. Use the move controls to change the order, remove a pick to swap it, and save. You can come back and change an answer whenever you want, and the app keeps your ranking tidy if a place closes: the ones below it move up.

You need to be signed in to answer, and a place you run cannot be ranked by you. The app offers only places in your town that fit the question, so a coffee question lists places with the tags that coffee drinkers use.

Why one question per visit?

Because a single question is easy, and a long quiz is not. A new question waits for you each time you open the app after about four hours away, and the questions you skip stay available. The app explains that questions open one visit at a time, so the next is always waiting without piling up. People who answer a question now and then for a few weeks end up with a list of favourites and never feel they did homework.

When you travel, the app can add a different kind of question between your Top 3 ones. It asks how good a place you visited was for food, and it asks only about places on your own passport.

Where does your private top 3 list go?

Every answer is kept in a private list named for your town, with a section for each question. Open it, rename it, share it or make it public like any other list in Mosey. A place you added to it by hand stays, since Top 3 only manages the places you named in answers. The Home card says it plainly: your answers are kept in a private list you can share from there.

Picks from different people can add up as points, three for a first choice, two for a second and one for a third, and nobody is ever named beside a place. Where no one has answered yet, your answer is what starts the ranking.

How do you keep favourites in your town up to date?

Revisit a question when a place disappoints you or surprises you. Moving a place down costs nothing and tells the app what you really think now. If you move, the questions follow you: they are about the town your phone is in, so a new town has a fresh set waiting. The guide to finding good food in a new city shows how to use that.

How do Top 3 answers connect to the rest of the app?

They sit between ratings and lists. A rating records a visit, a list holds places to try and Top 3 is your short list of favourites. Answering questions is also the middle step toward a Local Champion title, which takes five rated places, three answered questions and a list in the same town. You can share a Top 3 as a picture, and the card invites friends to make their own.

The Top 3 feature page shows the screens. For poutine itself, the guide to becoming a poutine connoisseur explains how rating different places builds a badge, and the guide to eating in every province covers the travel badge.

What makes a good answer?

An honest one. Name the place you would actually send a friend to, not the one you think a stranger expects. If your best poutine is a small counter you pass on the way to work, that is the answer. If you only know one good place for a category, name one and leave the other slots empty, because an answer of one is still an answer. The ranking is yours, and changing your mind later is part of how it works.

What does naming a favourite do for the place?

It says something useful at no cost to you. Mosey is free for a place to list, has no hidden fees and keeps its tools affordable, so a small cafe or a family-run poutine counter gains from your word without paying a middleman. Naming a favourite is supporting local in about a minute.

Browse the Canadian food guides for more ideas, then get the Mosey app and answer your first Top 3 question with the place you would send a friend to.