| It is a common scenario for friends, families, and | | | | and are looking to find a good place to eat. |
| anyone else under the sun - what are we going to | | | | These are only two mainstream directions. Many times |
| eat? Preoccupation with food is not uncommon and in | | | | it is the small restaurants, or 'hole in the wall' buildings |
| this day and age when many people do not know the | | | | that house some of the best food in a city and is |
| first thing about cooking, recipe books are replaced | | | | coveted by locals. Finding places like this is usually best |
| with binders full of restaurant advertisements. | | | | done by word of mouth, but what can you do to find |
| Beyond these 'eat out all the time types' there are | | | | out something like this? It is simple now that we live in |
| those that find eating in a restaurant to be a once in a | | | | a technological age. |
| while experience. Enjoying the finer things in life does | | | | Mobile applications allow us to connect to each other |
| not always mean having the biggest flat screen | | | | and our environment in a way we never have before. |
| television or surround sound home theater system, it | | | | Urban Spoon is a well known application that you can |
| can be as simple as eating a melt in your mouth steak | | | | download to your phone and acts as a web resource, |
| dinner. How to find a good restaurants can be a | | | | voted on by the public, that will send you in the |
| daunting endeavor. | | | | direction of any food you feel like eating. Looking for a |
| For every local bistro there are ten chains clogging the | | | | good vegan cafe? With the mostly young and urban |
| real estate of strip malls and while going to a bar to | | | | crowd that votes and helps create this food database, |
| eat some greasy appetizers can hit the spot much of | | | | you'll be pointed in the right direction. |
| the time, finding some place where our money is going | | | | You do not have to have an application directly |
| to something better can be harder. | | | | downloaded onto your phone to find what you need. |
| Most often there are local newspapers that usually | | | | There are more and more websites that are similar to |
| write best of lists at the end of each year. These lists | | | | Urban Spoon like Yelp. Yelp is city specific and breaks |
| undoubtedly include local restaurants and are most | | | | down cities by more than their restaurants. They look |
| likely voted on by those in the city. This can be an | | | | at every angle of entertainment that a city has to |
| invaluable resource if you are settling in for the first | | | | offer and you can find some place to eat, followed by |
| time. | | | | some place to drink, and end your night the trendiest |
| Zagats is another stand-by that can take you from | | | | coffee bar. |
| your city to anywhere else in the country. Exhaustively | | | | No matter where you live, you have the resources to |
| researched and compiled, the Zagat's guide can be an | | | | steer you in how to find a good restaurants. |
| invaluable tool when you travel from place to place | | | | |