Rohan Kadam
Founder & Marketing Lead
North York, Ontario, Canada · University of Mumbai
Rohan Kadam is a Marketing Leader with a sharp focus on brand positioning, audience growth, and community-led marketing. With a foundation built at the University of Mumbai and honed through hands-on entrepreneurial work, Rohan brings a distinctly user-first perspective to everything Eat Real Food NYC publishes and promotes.
At Eat Real Food NYC, Rohan leads all marketing strategy — from how the brand speaks to health-conscious New Yorkers, to the content and community channels that drive awareness across the city's five boroughs. His work ensures that the directory reaches the people who need it most: diners who care about what they eat and want honest, verified information to guide their choices.
Rohan believes that great healthy food should be easy to find for everyone in New York City — not just those who know where to look.
VERIFICATION PROCESS
How our data gets verified
Eat Real Food NYC does not rely on a single data source. Every restaurant listing in our directory is built from three independent data layers that cross-reference and validate each other.
Government records
The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene provides the foundational layer: inspection grades, scores, dates, and violation records. This is the only source of official food safety data in New York City, and we pull it directly from the NYC Open Data portal.
Business listings
Google Maps Platform provides business-level data: verified addresses, operating hours, phone numbers, user ratings, and review volumes. This layer confirms that a restaurant exists, is currently operational, and gives us the user sentiment data that feeds into our Health Score.
AI-assisted analysis
Our dietary tagging pipeline uses Claude AI to analyze each restaurant's cuisine type, public menu data, and business description to assign dietary tags. Every tag is subject to the conservative tagging policy described in our editorial standards, and spot-check reviews are conducted regularly.
Help us improve
Eat Real Food NYC is a living project. If you have local knowledge about a restaurant in our directory — a dietary tag we missed, a grade that has changed, a restaurant that has closed — your input directly improves the resource for everyone.