The Morning After
Taste Savant
This week on The Morning After, hosts Sari Kamin and Jessie Kiefer kick off the show with the beloved Food News segment featuring a wine mishap at Bobby Flay Steak, a pumpkin spice latte burger, and a Joe's Crab Shack serving children liquor by mistake. After the break, the hosts officially welcome founder and CEO of Taste Savant, Sonia Kapadia. Taste Savant is a highly curated restaurant discovery site and app designed to help the savvy diner, decide where to eat out. Taste Savant curates and aggregates reviews from people customers trust including friends, restaurant critics, bloggers, chefs, and others who know about food. Talking to Sonia about how she came up with the Taste Savant concept, she delves into the mechanics of the application and how it's a helpful tool for all occasions searching for food in select cities across the country. Covering New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and Los Angeles, Taste Savant has its own ranking system that differs from questionable sites like Yelp. Tune in to hear all about the upcoming site/application and find out how Sonia does on The Morning After Quiz! This program was brought to you by Whole Foods Market.
"This idea came upon me when I was looking for a place for date night." [15:35]
"People are super passionate about food in Chicago. That's why we launched there as our second city, actually." [27:00]
"We built this for a community of people." [30:42]
--Sonia Kapadia on The Morning After