id-eats
Three things built from one pipeline (modeled on ../wi-eats/ and ../co-eats/, which are never modified):
- The web leaderboard: every Idaho restaurant ranked on several boards (Top and Bottom), published as a private claude.ai Artifact
from
site/ (generated by scripts/make-leaderboard.py). It uses the UCSD Google Local 2021 snapshot for ratings, labeled "2021"
everywhere, so site/ never goes in a public repo.
- Idaho Eats, a free iPhone and iPad app (
IdahoEats/, XcodeGen project.yml). No Google-derived data: places come from Overture
Maps open data and official records; ratings and hours come live from Apple Maps' own place card.
- The website in
docs/ (generated by scripts/make-site.py): landing page, guides, the James Beard honorees, city and district
pages, how to look up an Idaho restaurant inspection, the web app at /explore/, privacy and terms. QA with scripts/qa-site.py.
See CLAUDE.md for the rules and commands, and playbook/ for sources and calibration (12-sources.md), the naming round
(05-naming.md), the App Store listing (06-app-store-listing.md) and the App Review reply and recording script
(13-app-review-reply.md).
Official records
- Idaho State Police, Alcohol Beverage Control: retail alcohol licenses, the one statewide official list of Idaho businesses
("serves alcohol", confirmation, licensed bars and restaurants the map data lacks). Exported by hand; licensee names never shown.
- Inspections: Idaho's seven public health districts publish results one search at a time (or not at all) and issue no grade, so
there are none here. Each place links its district's lookup.
- James Beard Foundation honors 2023–26 and America's Classics, as facts. Idaho has no MICHELIN Guide.
Hand-checked research
data/research/ (private): James Beard honors, and regional lists of Basque kitchens, finger steaks and drive-ins, spud plates,
huckleberry, trout, taquerías, historic saloons and the oldest places, each with a 2025–26 source; closures with sources; leads that
couldn't be verified (data/research/app/LEADS_*.md); adult venues kept out of the app (data/research/adult_venues.json).
