Guess The Menu

Guess the Menu is a free daily game built around real restaurant menus instead of made-up trivia. Each day brings a new challenge where you match real menu items to the restaurants they actually come from, drawn from around the world. A separate Discover mode lets you explore restaurants in your own city whenever you want, outside the daily puzzle.

What is Guess The Menu?

Guess the Menu takes an existing part of everyday life, the restaurant menu, and turns it into a guessing game. Instead of asking you to identify a country or a cuisine in the abstract, it uses menu items that come from actual, specific restaurants and asks you to work out which restaurant serves them. That is a narrower and more concrete task than most food-themed puzzle games attempt, since it ties each guess to a real place rather than a general category.

This focus is what separates it from other daily food games. FoodGuessr, for example, has you explore the world by food and figure out where a dish comes from, which keeps the answer at the level of countries and cuisines. Guess the Menu goes one step more specific: the menu item is the clue, and a real restaurant is the answer. That framing rewards paying attention to the phrasing and style of a dish description, since those are the kinds of details that vary from one real restaurant to the next.

Alongside the daily challenge, the site offers a Discover mode described as a way to explore your own city. That gives the game a second, more open-ended use beyond the single daily puzzle, since the same catalog of real restaurants that powers the game can also be browsed for its own sake. Together the two modes make it both a quick daily challenge and a small window into how real restaurants around the world present their food.

How to play Guess The Menu

1. Open Guess the Menu at guessthemenu.com.
2. Start the day's challenge, which is built from real menu items served by actual restaurants.
3. Read each menu item closely and think about what kind of restaurant would serve it.
4. Match the menu items to the restaurants you think they come from.
5. Come back the next day, since a new challenge arrives daily.
6. Try Discover mode any time to explore restaurants in your own city.

Tips and strategy

• Read the exact wording of a menu item closely, since restaurants often describe similar dishes very differently.
• Work out the cuisine first, then narrow down to the kind of restaurant that would serve the dish that way.
• Watch for language or spelling choices in an item's name that point toward a particular region or style of restaurant.
• Do not assume a dish belongs to the restaurant type it is best known for. Plenty of restaurants serve dishes from outside their main cuisine.
• Use Discover mode to get familiar with how real menus are written before tackling the daily challenge.
• Play regularly so you build a feel for how the game presents its clues.

Good to know

Category

Food and restaurants

Cost

Free

Resets

Daily

Modes

Daily challenge and Discover

Platform

Web browser

Format

Match real menu items to the restaurants they come from

Guess The Menu FAQ

Is Guess the Menu free to play?

Yes. The site describes itself as a free daily restaurant game.

How do you play Guess the Menu?

You match real menu items to the restaurants they actually come from. There is a new challenge every day, and the restaurants are drawn from around the world.

Is there an archive of past Guess the Menu puzzles?

This could not be confirmed. The site's sitemap only lists the main page, with no separate archive page found.

Is Guess the Menu like Wordle?

It shares the new-puzzle-every-day format of games like Wordle, but instead of guessing a word you are matching real menu items to the restaurants that serve them.

Who made Guess the Menu?

The creator is not named anywhere that could be checked, so this cannot be confirmed.