This is how you pick where to eat now.
Louvida is an app where you scroll short videos of real dishes from restaurants near you, and book a table straight from the video.
What Louvida is
Real food, filmed where it is cooked. Watch, then book.
Open the app and you get short videos from restaurants near you: the dish, the room, the people making it. When one gets you, book the table right there. That is it.
Find yourself
Which one are you?
Who we are
A chef built the app he wished his restaurants had.
Rony Parienty runs Shelly and Shelanous in Melbourne. For years he posted his dishes to Instagram and watched them sink under everything else people scroll past. So he built the thing he wanted for his own places: one app, only restaurants, where the person watching is already deciding where to eat tonight.
Gets the city on board.
Gal runs everything outside the code: the restaurants, the filming calendar, the launch. He signs up every restaurant himself, suburb by suburb. If Louvida is near you, Gal has knocked on the door.
Builds everything you tap.
Bar built the platform end to end: the app, the feed, the search, the bookings. When a video makes you hungry and the table is booked ten seconds later, that is Bar's work.
“You do not need 15,000 followers. You need good food, filmed well. And it is totally free.”
Rony Parienty · chef and CEO
For diners
The feed is the menu.
Every video is filmed inside a restaurant you can actually go to tonight. What you see is what turns up at the table.
The feed
Real dishes from the places around you.
Open the app and the videos start. Sorted by how close they are. See something you want? Save it with one tap, or book it straight away.
The restaurant page
Everything you want to know before you go.
The menu, the hours, how far it is, every video filmed there, and what people said after eating. Then a Book button, not a phone number.
Tonight
Who has a table right now.
It is 7 pm and you are already hungry. Tonight shows only the places open now with a slot you can still get, and any deal they put on that slot.
Search and map
Or just look around.
Search a dish, a cuisine or a suburb. The map shows what is near you, and what your friends have saved close by.
Before and after
Minutes of hunting, or a few seconds.
The usual way: four apps, twelve tabs, still no table and no idea what the food looks like. With Louvida: watch, tap, booked.
With friends
Dinner with friends, without the group chat.
Everyone has their own thing: one keeps kosher, one is vegan, one cannot do gluten, one is broke this week. Louvida remembers all of it, finds the places that work for the whole table, puts your friends' notes on the video, and books it when everyone says yes.
Friends, saved places and friend match are in the app now. The shared crew feed and group booking are next.
For restaurants
Your dishes, on video. Your tables, filled.
Louvida puts your restaurant in front of people who are already deciding where to eat. Your dishes on video, a Book button on every one.
Reach diners, not followers
Everyone scrolling is nearby and hungry. No follower count needed.
Show the food, not a PDF menu
Menu, hours, address and one Book button under your dishes on video.
The video takes the booking
A diner watches, taps Book, and the table lands in your dashboard.
Know which video fills tables
See bookings per video, push what works, put deals on quiet nights.
For creators
Creators are next.
Restaurants near you need their dishes on video. Paid work, rates agreed upfront, opening as more restaurants join.
All you need
Where we start
One city at a time, suburb by suburb.
Before launch we mapped every restaurant, cafe and bar in our first city. Hover a suburb.
Tap a suburb on the map or a row above.
Where are we eating?
The feed is live in Melbourne. Whoever you are, there is a door.
For diners
Get the app first.
You can use Louvida in your browser right now at app.louvida.com. The phone app is in closed testing: answer a few quick questions and you are first in line.
For restaurants
Be one of the founding restaurants.
Tell us who you are. We set you up, and you are live in the feed. No contract, nothing to pay while we launch.