Taste type

The Bitter Sophisticate

bitter · earthy

You've made peace with bitter — coffee, char, and the grown-up end of the menu.

Your hexagon

The shape your signature makes on the six flavor families — solid is you, dashed is the corpus average.

Campari, black coffee, charred radicchio. You've come around to the flavors most people avoid, because bitterness is what keeps sweetness honest.

Bitterness
Char, black coffee, dark chocolate, a bitter green. It keeps richness and sugar in check — a taste worth acquiring.
Earthy
Mushrooms, beets, lentils, a dusting of cumin. The taste of things grown in soil — it gives a dish weight.
Smoke
Charred edges, smoked paprika, bacon. The taste of food that met real fire — nothing else can fake it.

Beyond flavor — the disposition that shapes what lands on your table.

You order the dish you can't quite picture yet.

You like flavor with the volume turned up.

A few we'd set in front of you — and the closest matches in the corpus.

More dishes, ranked to your palate

The type that shares your territory but opens one new door. A good place to stretch.

The Spice Router

You follow the spice road — cumin, cardamom, warm aromatics layered deep.

A card worth posting — the hexagon, the notes, the dishes that fit.