Guide

How to get a list of restaurants with email addresses

Short answer: prompt PreyReach for restaurants in your target city. It searches Google Places live, finds and validates an email address for each one through a multi-source waterfall, and lets you export the whole list to CSV — no scraper to set up and no stale list to buy.

Why restaurant emails are hard to get

Restaurants rarely publish an email on Google — they list a phone number and a website, and the email (if any) is buried on a contact page. Generic scrapers grab whatever string looks like an email and never check it, so a third of a scraped list bounces. Bought lists have the same problem, plus they go stale fast.

How PreyReach finds and verifies emails

For every restaurant, PreyReach runs an email waterfall: it checks the verified Google profile, crawls the business's own website (contact and about pages), and falls back to public sources. Each candidate email is then validated with MX and SMTP probing before it reaches your export — so the list you download is deliverable, not a pile of guesses.

Step by step

Run a prompt like:

“Restaurants in Chicago rated 4.0+ with email”

1. 1. Prompt. Name the category and city. Add a rating or any other criterion if you want to narrow the list.
2. 2. Live search. PreyReach pulls matching restaurants from Google Places in real time.
3. 3. Email enrichment. The waterfall finds and validates an email for each restaurant; the verified address appears in the table.
4. 4. Export. Download the table to CSV, or save it as a list and ask the agent to draft outreach to the restaurants you select.

A note on coverage

Not every restaurant has a discoverable email — some genuinely don't publish one. PreyReach is honest about this: it shows the email where it found and verified one, and leaves the field empty rather than inventing an address. Every restaurant still comes with a verified phone number, so no lead is wasted.

More guides: How to find local businesses without a website.