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Restaurants Reviews
Find out the scoop on restaurants in your area or where you are traveling to. The sites below are excellent resources for finding restaurant where you are and finding out what real people think about them. From fine dining to the local hot dog stand, from the big cities to a winding backroad - the resources we have discovered for you will tell it all!
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City Search - Major cities, restaurant reviews from customers.
Chowhound - Message boards on the best eats of the area. Very easy to spend hours on this site if you love to eat out, just wish the format was easier to read and search. Location categories are very broad.
Trip Advisor - Travelers review restaurants (and hotels, etc.) from all over the world.
Blog Soop - Restaurant reviews from food blogs on the web, with a searchable database by neighborhood, zip code, type of cuisine, & restaurant name. Just NY for now but adding other cities soon.
Roadfood - Guide/reviews to great regional meals along the highways and backroads of America, over 1,000 listed.
Holly Eats - Reviews for people than prefer to chow rather than "dine"!
Menu Pages - Menus of 4,405 NYC restaurants, many deliver.
Zagat - Reviews by popular vote.
DineSite - Restaurant guide features 100,000 restaurants.
Cuisinenet - World-class dining guides for over 12,000 towns -- descriptions, photos, menus & more!
Fodor's Restaurant Reviews - From all over the world.
RestaurantPics - A visual review guide to NYC restaurants - other cities to be added. Unbiased reviews that provide the real vision of restaurants. By using pictures to document the dining experience.
Restaurant Ratingz Widget - Free software component for
Mac/ Window that provides access to a database of 40,000 customer-written reviews . The reviews include ratings for food, ambiance, & service, information on type of food & prices, customer comments. Users can add restaurants & post reviews.
Chowbaby - Restaurant guide.
Mouthfulsfood - Restaurant message boards.
Table Hopping with Rosie - Information on NJ restaurants, chefs, openings & closings and food events.
Restaurant Row - Make reservations at over 170K restaurants across the US.
Opentable - Book & confirm reservations at over 2,500 restaurants at no charge.
Sushi - A review guide to Japanese restaurants worldwide.
Yahoo Local - Local listing/reviews of restaurants/business.
Real Eats - Restaurant reviews from real people.
Site of the Month
Cookstr
Cookstr provides recipes from the best chefs & cookbook authors. All of the participating chefs/authors have their own profile pages: read about them, their restaurants, & see a selection of their great cookbooks.
Editor’s Pick
Love Street Living Foods
They offer organic, raw, vegan foods, free from all genetically modified or processed ingredients. We sampled their raw chocolate with goji berries - it was delicious. Their concept take a semi superfood like dark chocolate and make it a true super food by offering it raw with only organic ingredients (no proceed sugars). Terrific resource.
Featured Sites
Chocolate Cravings
Recchiuti Confections
Wonderfully inventive chocolate creations. Tops of our latest tasting their slivers of green apple/lime drenched in deep dark chocolate & Asphalt Jungle Mix ( burnt caramel almonds & hazelnuts, cherries & PB pearls all dipped in chocolate. Oh, and their seasonal flavor lavender vanilla is dreamy.
