Whenever I travel to a new city/country, I find myself asking friends who live/been there for food/restaurant/POI recommendations. But i always end up spending a lot of time collecting/organizing all the ideas in one place with very manual processes.

I either: 1) List all the names down in a draft email/note/msg as my friends are telling me about them in real time 2) Add pins on a Google Maps list 3) Search my chat history for names and addresses 4) Call my friend up in the middle of the day, tell him where i'm at, and ask him for recommendations.

But even with that list, it's still feels inconvenient when you're tying to figure out what you want to do next given your location/mood. Google Maps help you figure out what's closest to you, but you still have to manually click on each pin to figure out what they actually are, and a restaurant list still requires you to furiously google/yelp every place on the fly before making a decision.

Conversely, when my friends ask me for food recommendations in Chicago, I spit out a must-try list from memory, but I'm also hoping the other person remembers/jots it down somewhere, and hoping that list isn't missing some really good places I've not been to or thought about recently. My more organized friends would likely have an email list or google map pinned with all their fav places to send, but I'm not one of them.

I'm asking HN to see if other people have a similar pain point? If there is a better solution out there beyond manual note-taking/Google Maps? Or if its just me whining and being disorganized and nobody really cares?

TLDR - Foodie is having a hard time collecting/organizing food recommendations from friends for travel. Is there an easy solution out there? Do you have a similar pain point?