Someone is planning their mother’s seventieth and needs a caterer for fifty people. They can search a map and get a list of names with phone numbers beside them, and no way to tell one from another.
Or they can open a listing on Mentioned and see that three restaurants in the same city name that caterer as their supplier, that an events company recommends them for large orders, and that the caterer’s own circle includes the bakery they buy from and the printer who does their menus.
That is what you would learn by asking a restaurant owner who they use. Here it is already written down, signed by the business that wrote it.
Who’s behind it
A listing with a person in it.
Online, every listing can look the same: a name, an address, a few photos. Here, each business answers two questions in its own words: who’s behind it, and how it started. Then it names who it works with, and who it would go back to.
By the time you get in touch, you already know them a little.
Jazzy’s Brewhaus
We opened in downtown Perth in September 2024, and from the first menu the idea was that the café should be a map of the local economy. Not a café that happens to buy local, but one whose whole shape is made of its neighbours.
Read their story →CJ’s Punch
We did not start as a business. We started as the thing you brought. The recipe came out of our family’s kitchen, Kittitian and Jamaican, and it showed up at every lyme, every backyard barbecue, every birthday, long before any of us thought about selling it.
Read their story →Nation Performance
We set out to build a room, not a gym. The distinction sounds small and it is the whole business: a facility is something you use, and a community is something you belong to.
Read their story →Every entry is signed, and nothing anonymous appears.
You are not reading a number, and you are not reading strangers. You are reading what other business owners staked their own operation on, and what they trusted this business to handle.
You see who
Every mention and recommendation carries the name of the business that made it, and the relationship behind it.
Anyone can read it
It sits on a public profile, with no sign up, at the moment someone is deciding who to hire.
Nothing negative can appear
There is no score, no anonymous input, and no way to leave a negative one.
Not for sale
Mentioned does not sell recommendations at any tier. Placement is a paid feature; being recommended is not.
A listing tells you a business exists. A mention tells you who works with it. A recommendation tells you who’s been its customer, and what they’d go back for.
Two different things
Mention or recommend.
A mention is one business naming another it works with: a supplier, a contractor, a partner. It states a relationship, not an opinion, and the business named can confirm it.
“Three restaurants name that caterer as their supplier.”
A recommendation is one business speaking as a customer. It has bought from this business or been served by it, and it is saying what it would go back for. Signed, published right away.
“An events company recommends them for large orders.”
The caterer at the top of this page is a mention, three times over: three restaurants each naming the same supplier, on their own pages, because it is true. A recommendation is what one of those restaurants says about the caterer. A mention is that they buy from them at all.
Why this exists
Every business you support, every community it comes from.
These tags surface businesses from communities that are often underserved, so the people who want to find and support them can. They are self-declared by owners, completely optional, and used only to help you discover a business, never to screen one out. Browse by community, or skip it entirely.
A business does better when the businesses around it do better, and when the people behind it are seen. Make the relationships and the people visible, and we believe trust, customers and opportunity follow.
Vouched for, not rated.