About Ravito
The map of places cyclists actually stop.
Cafés, hotels, bakeries and workshops chosen for riders across Europe. Not every place that tolerates a bike outside. The ones worth planning a ride around.
3,000+
venues on the map
1,100+
cities covered
3,300+
registered riders
18,000+
monthly visitors
The name
Ravito. The stop that matters.
In French cycling, the ravitaillement — ravito for short — is the feed zone. The moment in a race where you refuel, regroup and keep going. It is part of the race, not a break from it.
On a long Sunday ride, the right café stop works the same way. Planned, anticipated, earned. It is also where the ride gets told: at the table, over an espresso, with the bikes leaning against the window.
The best rides have a ravito worth stopping for. Ravito exists so you know where it is.
How a place gets on the map
Three ways in. One test.
Every listing is a recommendation a rider can trust. A place reaches the map in one of three ways, and all three go through the same editorial check.
01
Spotted by the team
Places we find on the road, in route research and in the guides we publish.
02
Recommended by a Gregario
Riders in the community flag the stops they already use and vouch for them.
03
Applied directly
Venues apply through For Venues. An application is a request, not a place on the map.
The rider test
- A concrete reason to stop on a bike: secure parking, early hours, a workshop, food that works after 100 km, tables for a group.
- A real photo, an accurate location and a short honest description. No generic pins, no placeholder copy.
- A listing stays hidden until it meets that bar. Thin evidence means we wait, not that we invent.
Free listing, paid label
Being on the map is free.
Any place that passes the rider test can be listed at no cost. That is what makes the map useful, and it will stay that way.
Venues that want more can join the Ravito label. Paid tiers buy visibility: position on the map, a plaque on the door, and for Signature, features in the Journal. They never buy a listing. A place that fails the rider test does not get on the map, whatever it pays.
- Approved
Map highlight, digital badge and a sticker kit for the window.
- Curated Spot
First in its category on the map, a physical plaque, inclusion in guides and routes, and no other venue of its category within 500 m.
- Signature Spot
Everything in Curated, plus a professional photo shoot, Journal features and newsletter mentions.
The plaque is the physical side of the network. When a rider sees it on a door, they know the place is part of Ravito.
The community
Built by the people who ride it.
Gregarios
Riders who recommend the stops they trust and keep their city's map honest.
City Captains
Local riders who host group rides and know every café on the way out of town.
Rides and routes
Community rides, GPX routes and city guides, each built around the stops along the way.
The member card
Riders show it on arrival. Partner venues recognise who came through Ravito, and can offer a perk if they choose to.
Where we are
Still early. Already wide.
- 2024
The first map.
First venues listed and first rides organised, starting from Spain, France and Italy.
- 2025
The community takes shape.
The Gregario programme launches, the first City Captains host rides, and the Journal publishes its first city guides.
- 2026
A network across Europe.
The map opens to venues across Europe, with routes from Flanders to Norway and the Pyrenees. The Approved, Curated and Signature labels launch, with the plaque and the member card.
- Nov 2026
Ravito in your pocket.
The Ravito app takes the map onto the road, for the moment you choose where to stop.
Get in touch
Come and ride with us.
A place that deserves to be on the map, a question, a correction — write to us.