Halulu is an AI restaurant finder. It reads Google Maps reviews and tells you which restaurant is actually good for the dish you want.
Halulu is my wife, and she was always hungry. Every time we wanted to eat out she spent an hour on Google Maps, and every time we had the same argument. This place has 4.8 stars from 500 reviews. That one has 4.5 from 4,000. Which one is actually better?
Neither number answers the question. A star average blends the food, the decor, the service and the delivery time into one figure, so a great kitchen in a plain room scores the same as a pretty room with mediocre food. The real answer is written in the reviews, and there are thousands of them. So I built her an AI that reads them. Now we pick dinner in minutes, and we argue about other things. Osama Khalil, founder.
You describe a craving in your own words, in English or in Arabic. Halulu finds real restaurants near you, reads their Google Maps reviews in both languages, and works out what people actually said about that dish, at that place.
It returns up to nine ranked results. Each one carries a Halulu Score, the Google rating beside it, the distance, and two verbatim quotes from real reviews. One quote supports the score and one argues against it. The quotes are never paraphrased and never rewritten. If a reviewer said the falafel was exceptional, you read their sentence, not ours.
The Halulu Score rates one dish at one restaurant, not the restaurant overall. Take Hashem Restaurant in downtown Amman. Google gives it 4.4 stars across 3,448 reviews. Halulu scores its falafel 4.7. Reviewers praise the food almost without exception, and the lower star average comes from plain decor and plastic sheets on the tables. Stars rate the restaurant. Halulu rates the falafel.
The score is built from what reviewers said about the dish you asked for, adjusted for how far away the place is and for how much confidence a Google rating deserves given how many reviews it rests on. A restaurant below 3.0 stars is excluded outright. The full method is published, with a working calculator, at halulu.food/algorithm.html.
Halulu speaks English and Arabic. Both are written natively, neither is a translation of the other, and right to left layout is supported throughout. The Arabic is Modern Standard Arabic, so it reads across the whole Arabic-speaking world.
Halulu works anywhere Google Maps carries restaurant data. The first markets are Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Jordan, and the product is global from the first day.
Halulu runs a Model Context Protocol server, so Claude and ChatGPT can search restaurants, save favorites and share a result on your behalf inside a chat. The connector URL and the setup steps are on the connect page. An assistant that wants a machine-readable summary of this site should read llms.txt.
Halulu is built and operated by Osama Khalil, an independent maker. It is a paid product with a free tier, funded by subscriptions rather than by advertising, so nothing in the ranking is for sale. No restaurant can pay to rank higher, because there is no mechanism to do so.
Write to eat@halulu.food and the founder reads it. How Halulu handles your data is set out on the privacy page.