What Your Last 10 Restaurant Choices Say About You

You have a taste identity. You’ve had one for years. Here’s how to read it.

Look back at your last 10 restaurant choices. Not the special occasions — the regular ones. The Tuesday nights, the weekend lunches, the takeout orders. That list is a portrait of your actual taste, not your aspirational taste.

The patterns you’ll find

Most people cluster around two or three types of food. They have a comfort category they return to without thinking, an adventurous category they visit when they’re feeling it, and a category they think they should like more than they do.

Your comfort category is your taste identity. It’s where you go when you’re tired, when you’re hungry, when you don’t want to think. It’s also the category where you have the most refined opinions — you know exactly what you want because you’ve had a lot of it.

Why this matters

Knowing your taste identity is the first step to actually expanding it. You can’t find the next thing you’ll love until you understand what you already love and why.