Food Travel List: Your Top 3 Food Towns and Wish List

A food travel list is a ranked set of your three favorite food towns, cities, states or countries, with a wish list kept apart. In Mosey it builds itself from short travel questions that arrive between Top 3 questions. You name up to three places, best first, and the app keeps your answers in lists you can change, share or make public.

What is a food travel list?

It is the travel version of Top 3. Where a Top 3 question asks about places where you are, a travel question asks about places you have been or would love to go. "Name up to three places, best first" is all it needs. Over time your answers form lists with titles such as "My top 3 food towns" or "My top 3 food states."

The lists come in two kinds. Been there lists hold places you have visited. Wish lists hold places you would love to go, and the app is firm that they are "kept apart and never count" toward your passport. Nothing on a wish list can change it.

How do travel questions work?

They arrive in the same flow as Top 3, and the app asks one question per visit. After every couple of Top 3 questions, a travel question can appear. Some ask how good a place you visited away from home was for food. Others ask for your best food town, city, state or country among the places on your passport.

The app explains it in its own words: "Mosey asks about places on your passport, one question a visit. When this one comes up, you can add yours." Wish questions come now and then too, such as the towns in a state you would love to eat your way around. You can skip any question and answer it later.

How do you rank your top 3 food towns?

Search for a place, add it and move it up or down, the same as in a Top 3. Number 1 is your favorite. A "Change my picks" button lets you edit later. A pick has to fit the question, so a state question accepts only places inside that state, and the search is limited to match. When a place leaves the list, the ones below move up.

Your lists are gathered under "Your travel lists," in two sections, one for been there lists and one for "Wish lists."

How does a wish list of places work?

A wish list question asks where you would love to eat your way around, such as the towns in a state you have never visited. You name up to three, and they are kept in a list of their own. A wish list is a daydream with a ranking, and it is useful: when a trip comes up, you already know which three towns you wanted to try. Nothing on it counts as a visit until you actually rate a place there.

Can you make a travel list public?

Yes, if you want to. A "Make public" button opens a confirmation that lists exactly what becomes public on the Mosey website and in the app: your first name, the places you picked and your cover. You can make it private again whenever you like. A private profile cannot have a public list, and you need a username first so the list has its own link.

Public lists also feed a shared list of "Travelers' favorite" food towns, cities or states, ranked by travelers' own top 3s, which grows as more travelers add theirs. Nobody is named in the shared ranking.

How do you share a travel list as a picture?

A "Share my list" button makes a picture card with a choice of covers: Townscape, Route or Stamps. The card carries your ranked places and invites friends to make a travel list of their own. It is a neat way to show a friend where you would send them for a long weekend.

Can friends see where you would send them?

If you make a list public, yes, and the share card makes it easy to send. Friends who follow you also see your profile, which can carry your Local Champion title and badges. A friend who is planning a trip can read your three towns and a note on why, which is more useful than a generic ranking because it comes from someone they know. Keep the list private if you would rather use it only as your own memory.

How does a travel list fit with the passport and lists?

Your passport records places you have been, your travel lists rank them, and an ordinary list holds anything else you want to plan. The food passport guide explains stamps, and the guide to naming your top 3 places to eat covers the question flow they share, and the Top 3 feature page shows the screens. For trip planning, see the guide to eating well on a road trip and the US food guides.

A specific one. Name the town where a meal changed how you thought about food, not the biggest or best-known name. A small town you drove through and still talk about is a better pick than a famous city you have heard of, because your list is yours and a travel question is about your experience. If you cannot choose, name one and leave the other slots open. An answer of one is still an answer.

Does a travel list help local places?

It points travelers toward food towns, and travelers spend where they eat. Mosey is free for a place to list, has no hidden fees and keeps its tools affordable, so a good word from a traveler goes to the place. Answering a travel question costs you nothing, and it is supporting local at a distance.

Open the Mosey app, answer your next travel question and name the food town you would send a friend to.