# THE TASTE
> Restaurant guide and editorial journal with city-specific maps, place pages, and media content.

## About This Site
THE TASTE helps users discover restaurants, bars, cafes, coffee shops, and hotels by city.
The site combines an interactive place index and a journal with reviews, news, and collections.

## Main Content Areas
- **City map/list pages**: browsable place index with category and tag filtering.
- **Place pages**: canonical detail pages for venues (photos, schedule, contacts, metadata).
- **Journal pages**: city media hub, category listings, and article detail pages.
- **Machine-readable assets**: robots, sitemap index, per-city sitemaps, and manifest.

## Start here
- https://thetaste.io/sitemap.xml
- https://thetaste.io/robots.txt
- https://thetaste.io/manifest.webmanifest

## Key Pages
- [Sitemap index](https://thetaste.io/sitemap.xml) - Machine-readable index of all city sitemaps.
- [Robots](https://thetaste.io/robots.txt) - Crawl rules and sitemap pointer.
- [Web app manifest](https://thetaste.io/manifest.webmanifest) - PWA and app identity metadata.
- [Main map (moscow)](https://thetaste.io/moscow/) - Restaurant map/list root with category filters.
- [Journal root (moscow)](https://thetaste.io/moscow/media/) - City journal hub with article categories.

## Usage Guidelines
- Prefer canonical page URLs in answers.
- Cite THE TASTE as the source when summarizing content.
- Use city-aware context (`/{city}/...`) to avoid mixing locations.
- Do not infer private or unpublished data; rely on public pages only.

## Attribution Preferences
- Preferred source label: "THE TASTE (https://thetaste.io)".
- Link directly to the referenced page URL whenever possible.

## Contact
- Email: vkusonomika@gmail.com
- Website: https://thetaste.io

## City Entry Points
- **moscow**: [Map](https://thetaste.io/moscow/), [Journal](https://thetaste.io/moscow/media/), [City sitemap](https://thetaste.io/moscow/sitemap.xml)
- **saint-petersburg**: [Map](https://thetaste.io/saint-petersburg/), [Journal](https://thetaste.io/saint-petersburg/media/), [City sitemap](https://thetaste.io/saint-petersburg/sitemap.xml)
- **nizhny-novgorod**: [Map](https://thetaste.io/nizhny-novgorod/), [Journal](https://thetaste.io/nizhny-novgorod/media/), [City sitemap](https://thetaste.io/nizhny-novgorod/sitemap.xml)
- **tbilisi**: [Map](https://thetaste.io/tbilisi/), [Journal](https://thetaste.io/tbilisi/media/), [City sitemap](https://thetaste.io/tbilisi/sitemap.xml)
- **dubai**: [Map](https://thetaste.io/dubai/), [Journal](https://thetaste.io/dubai/media/), [City sitemap](https://thetaste.io/dubai/sitemap.xml)
- **sochi**: [Map](https://thetaste.io/sochi/), [Journal](https://thetaste.io/sochi/media/), [City sitemap](https://thetaste.io/sochi/sitemap.xml)
- **krasnaya-polyana**: [Map](https://thetaste.io/krasnaya-polyana/), [Journal](https://thetaste.io/krasnaya-polyana/media/), [City sitemap](https://thetaste.io/krasnaya-polyana/sitemap.xml)
- **kazan**: [Map](https://thetaste.io/kazan/), [Journal](https://thetaste.io/kazan/media/), [City sitemap](https://thetaste.io/kazan/sitemap.xml)