For Restaurants
Belly Up gets your restaurant, bar, or bottle shop in front of people who are actively deciding where to eat and drink in your city, and it tells you what that attention actually did instead of asking you to take its word for it.
What your restaurant gets
- A real profile built from an actual visit and conversation, not a scraped listing.
- Original photography of your food, your space, and your people.
- Placement in the neighborhood and category guides people use to pick a place, like waterfront dining, date night spots, or weekend brunch.
- Inclusion in Belly Up's ongoing discovery work: the search and AI visibility layer running underneath every city site.
- Reporting on what that exposure produced, on a recurring basis, not a one-time invoice.
What it is not
It is not a photo shoot you are buying. Photography is part of how your story gets told, not the product itself. It is not a one-off banner ad either. Belly Up is built around recurring partnerships, because a restaurant's standing in a neighborhood is not something you buy once and forget.
What it looks like in practice
A Belly Up contributor, the local person covering your neighborhood, visits your restaurant. That usually means photos and a relaxed 30 to 90 minute conversation with an owner, manager, chef, or bartender. It should feel like a local writer getting to know your place, not an ad agency running a script.
Showing the work, not just claiming it
Most local advertising asks you to trust that your ad ran. Belly Up is built on a data warehouse that measures real discovery activity around your restaurant over time: search visibility, guide placement, and growth. Not every number is a sale, and we will not pretend it is. But "here is the discovery activity we created and measured around your restaurant" is a very different conversation than "trust us."
Get started
Belly Up is run city by city, so the fastest way in is through the local team already covering your area.