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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
Culinate
For excellent, informative food website - an ongoing conversation about eating well. Articles, cooking tips, interviews, recipes, podcasts, resources, blog posts - will help you put real food into your life. We are big fans of the site!
Editor’s Pick
Effie's Homemade Oatcakes
The "perfect" extra for your tea/coffee. Nutty, crunchy but flaky and not too sweet. We LOVE these cookies. They are extremely addictive.
Featured Products
Redwood Hill Goat Cheese
Their French-style California Crottin with its wonderful rind, and robust, earthy flavor is our favorite. Redwood Hill produces the least processed goat milk products available anywhere. A family farm, they we use a natural approach to animal husbandry to hand craft their award -winning goat milk cheese and yogurt.
AJ Gourmet
Stuffed manzanilla fina olives from Spain, handpicked and stuffed with the finest ingredients, available at AJ Gourmet.
Featured Sites
Jacksonville Mercantile
JacksonvilleMercantile.com is a must see gourmet and specialty foods store. Awesome selection!
Lillie Belle Farms
One of America's Top Chocolate Artisans. Always Organic, Natural and Preservative free.
Chocolate Cravings
Poco Dolce
Their bittersweet tiles are impossible to forget - they are a perfect creation for real chocolate aficionados. Tiny dark chocolate tiles topped with grey salt - each with its own wonderful bits of ingredients such as Aztec chile, ginger, burnt caramel toffee, etc. Their creator Kathy Wiley has master the art of simple chocolate perfection.
