How The Starred Bill makes money

Last updated 11 November 2026

Today The Starred Bill earns nothing from any link, advert or restaurant. This page says how that may change, and what never will.

What we earn now

Nothing. The site and its accounts are free.
Hotel and tour buttons. Some pages show buttons to Booking.com (hotels), Viator and GetYourGuide (food tours). We aren't paid for any of them: they're there so we can see whether visitors find them useful. We count how often each is clicked, never who clicked or what they booked (see the privacy notice).
Booking buttons. “Book” buttons go to the restaurant's own booking page, or the booking system it uses, such as Tock, Resy, OpenTable or SevenRooms. We aren't paid for those either.

Affiliate links. We may join the affiliate programmes of the hotel and tour sites above. We would then earn a commission when someone books through our link, at no extra cost to them. Every paid link will carry a note saying so, and this page will list which companies pay us.
Sponsorship and adverts. If we ever show sponsored content or adverts, each one will be labelled “Sponsored” or “Advert”.

No one can pay to appear on the site, or to change a price, a star, a ranking, a members' score or the order of any list.
No one can pay to be picked by Budget search, or to be written about in one of our guides or news stories.
Prices come from the sources we name on each restaurant's page. Partners never see or change them.
We never sell personal data.

The Starred Bill is run by Tally Media Limited, so anything the site earns is the company's.

Email [email protected]. About The Starred Bill explains where our prices and stars come from.