◈ The Project

About CBDB

The idea

Every other review site is a feed built to sell you ads, not a tool built to help you.

Here, we flip that. You own your words. Nobody buys their way up. We're not participating in the online advertising economy.

No ads. No algorithms. Just burgers.

This is an official record of the world's burgers, written by people who actually ate them. Find what's worth your time near you — and places worth seeking out when you're somewhere new.

Different by design
Other platforms own your reviews. They can delete them.
You own yours. Only you can delete them.
Restaurants pay to bury the bad and boost fake or sponsored posts.
No paid placement. No suppression. Every rating public.
Anyone posts, ratings inflate, and five stars stop meaning anything.
Calibrated by real people. Legendary means legendary.
They force you to install an app just to read a review or see a photo.
Read everything in your browser. No app, no login.
Trackers follow you across the web. What you read and tap gets sold to advertisers.
No trackers, no collection, no ad business. Nothing to sell, because nothing's gathered.
A feed tuned to keep you scrolling, not to help you decide.
A database built to answer one question: where's a great burger?
Built in the Atmosphere

Your reviews aren't locked in our database and rented back to you. Each one is posted to your own account in the Atmosphere; what we keep is an index that points back at it - not a copy we control.

We don't profile or track you. No tracking pixels, no ad tech, no data to sell — not just as a promise, but because the architecture doesn't allow it. Don't trust our privacy policy. Read our code.