- Quick specs
- Price: Free; iTunes account required
- Operating system: iPhone OS 2.x
- Date added: December 02, 2008
- Total Downloads: 3,798
- Downloads last week: 19
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 3 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on December 02, 2008
Curious diners have a new friend in Urbanspoon, a practical dining discovery app that shows a playful side when you let it. Otherwise, it gets to the serious business of finding you food. GPS or various forms of manual input shine a light on the restaurants nearby. While there's also browsing by popularity or neighborhood or searching by name, the most interesting and invigorating feature is the slot machine on the main screen. Enthusiastically shake the iPhone (or press "shake") to set individual wheels in motion. They'll randomly land on a nearby neighborhood, cuisine, and price range. Padlocks just below each column let you secure a requirement--shaking again honors your assigned constants and spins the other variables.
Maps, click-to-call, critic reviews, and Urbanspoon-user ratings are available for each selection. We can't stress how nice the internal browser is for reading reviews and directions without needing to restart the app, though on some occasions they were extremely slow to load. We'd also like to see links to restaurant Web sites, while Urbanspoon is at it.
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Publisher's description
From Urbanspoon :If you can't decide where you want to eat, Urbanspoon can help you out. Shake your iPhone and the Urbanspoon's slot machine will pick a good restaurant for you to try. Keep shaking until you find a restaurant that you like. Use GPS to find restaurants near you; filter searches by neighborhood, cuisine, or price; browse comprehensive restaurant listings; get ratings and reviews from newspapers, bloggers, and fellow diners. Urbansppon is available for most North American cities as well as London.
CNET Editor's Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App Store, where you must continue the download process. You must have iTunes installed in order to open the link, and you must have an active iTunes account to download the application.
What's new in this version:
News feed shows what your friends are doing, adds restaurant news.
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Version: Urbanspoon for iPhone 1.06
"Urbanspoon is fine, but check out GoodFood"
Pros: Shake feature.
Cons: No interactive maps of nearby restaurants; shake feature is clever but totally random; focus on external reviews rather than user contributions
Summary: Urbanspoon was a good start, but GoodFood (by Goodrec) is a newer and better alternative to finding local restaurants.
It has a fully interactive map view like Google Maps, as well as fun and useful ways to filter content and an easy wa... read more >> - See 1 user review Write review
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