After being acquired earlier this year, Urbanspoon is now trying their hand at online dinner reservations, with a trial in Seattle. This puts them in direct competition with Open Table, which had a successful IPO earlier this summer. Both charge $1 per reservation, and Open Table charges $300/month to restaurant owners for their dedicated [...]
Mashable has published their top 15 social media sites for foodies, and while it covers the usual suspects it may be worth taking a look to make sure you know them all. This list is really just a small sample of all the food sites out there… just thinking about it makes me hungry.
I’ve summarized [...]
Ahh, the summer salad. Mark Bittman completely lost his mind and posted 101 summer salads, in near-’twecipie‘ format and mostly of the vegan variety. If you need inspiration for salad making, you cant do much better, read here. And he has a video on salad dressings, here – worth watching just for the montage at [...]
Contestants of Top Chef would be advised to check out this website, showcasing recipes with only fast food ingredients. Of course, the results look revolting, and the top chef contestants have fared much better overall. The photo is of McSteak & Potatoes (Fancy Big Mac). Blech.
www.fancyfastfood.com
Thanks Jess.
If you are up late partying, studying, or are simply nocturnal, it can be a pain to find an open restaurant. Lunarama aims to solve this problem with a list of late-night venues by city. Cool idea, not-so-great implementation. The site is stylish but simple, the listings very partial, and when I emailed a correction [...]
I am sure that you, like me, need to read nothing more about twitter, ever again. But microblogging is here to stay and it is as useful for some things as it is useless for others.
Enter Marueen Evens, the inventor of the “twecipe.” The 27 year old BC woman studying in Belfast, covered in a [...]