Using Mise en Mémoire

The Journal is home: every meal you've logged lives here.

• Calendar icon (top right): your Reservations.
• Gear icon: Settings for your subscription, profile and sign-out.
• Search meals… finds a restaurant by name.
• Sort by Recent, Rating or Restaurant, and filter by Michelin distinction.
• Each card shows the restaurant, date, rating, occasion, number of courses and which visit it was (for example Visit #2).
• The brass + button (bottom right) starts a new meal.

Upcoming reservations appear as a strip at the top of the Journal.

Tap the brass + in the Journal. There are two ways to begin:

A. Scan the menu (fastest)RÉSERVE

1. Choose Scan Your Menu or Bill to Begin.
2. Photograph the printed menu or the bill, or pick a photo from your library.
3. Wait a few seconds while it shows “Reading your menu…”.
4. Your Meal opens with “We read your menu — 11 courses found”: every course is already filled in.

B. Start by hand

Choose Begin Your Memoir and fill it in yourself. Use this at an omakase counter with no printed menu.

Fill in Your Meal

1. Add a cover photo (optional).
2. Restaurant: type the name and pick it from the results, or tap Enter manually.
3. Date: today by default.
4. Occasion: Birthday, Anniversary, Date Night, Business… or Custom…
5. Companions: Add from Contacts or type a name.
6. Spend: $ to $$$$$.
7. Your overall rating (1–5 stars) and the Michelin Award.
8. Notes: how was it?
9. Courses: check each name, and tap + Add Course to add one.
10. Tap Put to Memory to save.

After saving, you're on the meal's page. Tap “Courses · 11” to open the course list.

Add a photo and rating

1. Tap a course in the list.
2. Tap Tap to add a photo, take a photo or choose one, then crop.
3. Tap 1 to 5 stars.
4. Your favourite? Tap Crown this course to make it the best course of the meal.
5. Tap Pick a tag for dish and ingredient tags (otoro, uni, hotate…). Pick several; tap again to remove.
6. Save, and move on to the next course.

• The ↑ ↓ arrows reorder courses.
• A wine-glass icon means the course has a pairing.
• + Add Course adds a course.

Import all your dish photos at onceRÉSERVE

In the course list, tap Import from Photos and select every dish photo from the evening (up to 20). Mise matches each photo to its course; tap a photo, then a course, to change a match, and save them all at once.

Backup: every photo you take in the app is also saved to your camera roll.

1. On the meal's page, tap Post to Stories.
2. In Share Memory, choose a style:
   • Story Card: one hero photo, made for Stories.
   • Course Carousel: one card per course, made for a carousel post.
   • Polaroid Collage: scattered photos on a cover card.
3. Tap Preview. The photos download first, so give it a few seconds.
4. Tap Save to Photos, or Share to send it straight away.

Posting a carousel: tap Save all to Photos, then select them all when you create the post in Instagram.

Add a reservation ahead of time and there's almost nothing to type on the night. Reservations are free for everyone.

Add a reservation

1. In the Journal, tap the calendar icon to open Reservations.
2. Tap + (top right), find the restaurant, and set the date and time. Add an occasion, guests and notes if you like.
3. Tap Save Reservation. The first time, allow notifications when asked.

On the night

• A reminder arrives an hour before.
• Tap the reminder: Your Meal opens with the restaurant, date, occasion and guests already filled in.
• You can also tap Log this meal in the list, on tonight's booking or any past one.
• Once the meal is logged, the reservation leaves the list.

Mise Réserve is billed monthly or yearly; prices are shown in the App Store in your currency. A 7-day free trial may be available. Cancel anytime.

• Manage it in Settings → Manage Subscription.
• New phone or reinstall: Settings → Restore Purchases.