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Discover
Search for local businesses in any town or city in the UK. Find only independent businesses — no chains and no multinationals.
● Now in 32 UK townsspring '26
Find the good stuff around the corner.
Highstreet is a local guide to exploring a city through local businesses. Find independent restaurants, cafes and shops in one place. No matter what city you're in, support the local community.
Plan a trip
Tell us the city and what you are after.
We will build a local plan around independent businesses only. If you are signed in, we also use your visits and reviews to make the recommendations more personal.
pocket guide
What this does
Give it a city and a few preferences and it will plan a local wander from the businesses we already know about.
Try this
I am in Bristol on Saturday. I want a quiet coffee, a good bookshop, lunch under 20 pounds and somewhere for a glass of wine after.
Coverage is only as good as the businesses in the directory, so the answers get better as the database gets deeper.
Browse by mood
see all categories →How it works
Three steps. Zero chains.
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Visit
Visit and shop local wherever you are. In Liverpool? Buy Liverpool. In Brighton? Buy Brighton.
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Save and catalog your visits
When you log in, you can document and track which local businesses you've visited in each place with a Goodreads-style system.
The local multiplier
Spend £10 at a local shop and £6.30 stays in your town.
Spend that same tenner at a chain and only £2.40 stays local. That is the difference. More of your money goes back into local staff, local suppliers and local rent. Do that often enough and towns get stronger.
£10 · same lunch
money kept local
Independent café
locally owned
£6.30
stays local of £10
Local chain
3 to 9 outlets
£4.10
stays local of £10
National chain
head office elsewhere
£2.40
stays local of £10
source civic economics 2024↗ explore
Picked this week
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I moved to a new town and felt like a tourist for months. Highstreet pointed me to the bakery I now go to every Saturday. It's basically the friend who knows everyone.
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Rosa M.
Bristol · joined Mar '26
“Finally something that doesn't show me the same five chains in every neighbourhood. We've doubled foot traffic on Tuesdays.”
— Sam, owner, Wren Books
“Beautiful, and unusually quick. The little maps are a dream.”
— App Store review · ★ 4.9
The good stuff isn't on page one of Google. It's here.
Free to use, free to join, no chains for sale.