Comments on: Urbanspoon: Restaurant Reviews Coming To A City Near You

By: kevfoodvan

kevfoodvan — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:57:20 +0000

For the vegetarian poster my sites have sections for people with special dietary needs that you can also download to your iPod. http://www.foodseattle.com
http://www.foodvancouver.com
http://toronto.foodontario.com

By: Dennis G

Dennis G — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:28:29 +0000

With respect to the other commenters, I think UrbanSpoon goes one better.

Dining out is such a matter of personal preference. In a restaurant town like Seattle, there’s a range of places to eat from hole-in-the-wall burger shops to fine dining.

UrbanSpoon brings the best of what’s “professional” with what matters to you. It packages it up in a hip, easy to use site that’s also available on Facebook.

I think it has some room to improve, but it’s a superior product to what it’s been compared to here.

By: John

John — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:31:54 +0000

This site is not that big of a deal. Its a total clone of openlist.com and from what I can tell is actually built on the openlist software just has a different flavor.

By: Neil J. Squillante

Neil J. Squillante — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:49:03 +0000

I should note that the site which executes this model the best in my opinion is Metacritic. I’d like to see Metacritic add restaurants.

By: Neil J. Squillante

Neil J. Squillante — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:47:03 +0000

It has come up in Google searches of mine recently. It’s a good approach — kind of like Google News with a filter.

By: gabe

gabe — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:43:30 +0000

if youre looking for something more local in the orlando area: http://www.KnightlyFood.com is great. Its geared toward the UCF crowd, but anyone from the area can get some good information from there

By: phenom

phenom — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:02:45 +0000

there are tons of websites who do the same
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

By: Yelp Sucks

Yelp Sucks — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:35:58 +0000

looks great… has a lot of potential.

yelp jumped the shark a couple of months ago.

By: ella chloe

ella chloe — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:32:55 +0000

There’re aleady tons of local restaurant review sites such as yelp, citysearch, metro, herfablife and others.

By: xpherion

xpherion — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:09:35 +0000

they getting data from citysearch. why should I go here instead of citysearch?

By: Tony Wright

Tony Wright — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:44:55 +0000

I’m one of their monthly uniques every month.

It’s a great combination of user-generated-content and editorial content. I hate to get all “web 1.0″ about it, but data from professional restaurant reviewers are… well, professional. Adding that to UGC is a great play.

It’s also a smart business. Yelp adds a new city and it looks like a ghost town. Urban Spoon rolls out a new city, aggregates data in one place, and they’ve got a pile of rich and useful content for their users.

Well done!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:34:17 +0000

This is by far my favorite restaurant website. My wife is a vegetarian and it can be challenging to find _good_ veggie food. I found an amazing vegetarian restaurant in Seattle using Urbanspoon.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:57:36 +0000

Nonsense. There is no added value to customers

By: Mike B

Mike B — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:52:49 +0000

Google already does this with restaurant reviews.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:50:11 +0000

Was wondering if there are any copyright issues involved here? Would anyone know?

By: Symbian

Symbian — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:29:07 +0000

It’s like swik.net do with all content tagged in del.icio.us.