Introducing Quenelle Hit Lists: Search and Monitor Your Favorites

You know the places. The ones you'd actually get excited about. They're in your head, maybe half-written in Notes, maybe saved on three different apps. Friday night opens up and you start digging. Resy. OpenTable. SevenRooms. One restaurant after another. Gray calendars. Nothing for two. Nothing at 7. By the time you've checked half the list, the night is already decided for you: you're going somewhere you don't really want.

That loop is the problem. Not that you don't know where you want to eat. That finding out if any of those places have a table means an hour of tab-hopping, usually for nothing.

Quenelle Hit Lists ends that. Send us your favorites once. Next time you need a table, ask about the list. Quenelle searches it, monitors it, and tells you what's actually open.

This is early access. Features and limits may change as we learn how people use it. Ping us by sending "@team" right in your messages and we'll help you out.

How Hit Lists Work

Send Quenelle your restaurants. Paste from Notes, copy from a group chat, or rattle them off from memory. Quenelle saves the list and treats it as your favorites going forward.

You can update it later the same way: add a place, drop one you're done with, or ask what's currently on the list.

As of now, we can handle up to 100 restaurants per Hit List.

How to Get Started

Text Quenelle something like:

That's it. Quenelle confirms what it saved. No settings screen. No spreadsheet.

If you already keep a running list in Notes, paste the whole thing. Messy formatting is fine. We care about the restaurant names.

What You Can Ask

Once your Hit List is saved, talk to Quenelle the way you'd talk to a friend who already knows your taste:

• "Anything open on my favorites for Thursday? Anniversary, party of 2, somewhere nice."
• "Can you watch my list for Saturday? Anything after 7 works."
• "I need a table tonight for 4. Check my Hit List and tell me what's left."

Quenelle scopes the search (or the monitor) to your list. You stop starting from scratch every time someone texts "where should we go?"

Early Access Notes

Hit Lists is rolling out as an early access feature. Expect rough edges while we refine matching, monitoring, and how list updates work over text. Availability still depends on the restaurants themselves. A Hit List makes it faster to ask Quenelle for help. It doesn't invent open tables.

We're shaping this from subscriber feedback. If your list behaves unexpectedly, or you're hitting the 100-restaurant ceiling, tell us.

Soon you'll be able to upload your Google Maps and Beli lists too :) And access lists like the NYT Top 100, NY Mag Top 43, and other popular ones.