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Who makes it

The editors who decide what runs, and the curators who put it forward. Published from New York since 2020.

Editors and curators

Two names, and a corps that stays unnamed

David Yoon
Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chiefdy@exqz.com
Cherlyn Lee
Co-Founder & Creative Directorcl@exqz.com
Curators
Mostly unnamed, in the cities we cover

Curators live in the cities they cover and were already the person their friends asked. They put places forward, editors decide what runs and how it is marked, and a place is measured against the rest of its city rather than against its own press.

Most curators stay unnamed: one who gets recognised is one who gets looked after, and that ruins the question.

Colophon

Established
2020
Published from
New York

Disclosure

What is and is not for sale

Exqz is funded by brand partnerships, and a partnership can only ever produce an article. Guides, places and events are not for sale: no budget has moved a place into the guide, up it, or out of it.

Articles say at the top how they were paid for. They appear in the app alongside everything else, never in the guide, which curators alone decide.