As one of leading restaurant review websites worldwide, popular Urbanspoon have created a mobile application as a portal to their popular website. A quick setting selection the user is able to narrow their view to their closest major city which will allow the application to narrow the results to your chosen region. Selecting the browse button from the front screen the user is able to select from various set selection criteria with the one feature we are interested in being types of food. From this particular browse list are the names of styles and cuisines along with an indication of how many eateries have been reviewed for that category. Each category, when selected, initially displays the most popular restaurants along with their dollar price bracket as indicated by green dollar signs, the type of cuisine (African, vegetarian, for instance for the listing of Lentil As Anything as viewed under the African listing) and the address of the restaurant. Scrolling down the screen shows a display of all the suburbs where the selected category restaurants are found and, again, the number of restaurants reviewed for the category in that suburb. Just as with the website, the Urbanspoon application gives basic information for each restaurant, these being a percentage rating as given by website and application users who have visited the restaurant, the telephone number and address, price indication, opening hours and types of food carried on the menu and features such as vegetarian, gluten-free, outdoor dining. Links to user reviews, critic reviews, photographs, and restaurant website are all present. Users of the application are easily able to search for particular restaurants using the search feature, which make it a useful resource to use in conjunction with other resources such as guides and books where pricing may not be indicated or where a printed review may be outdated. The application is available in formats for use with: iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry. J.S.
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