Urbanspoon website

Wanderspot, LLC 2006, Urbanspoon, viewed 20 April 2011, <http://www.urbanspoon.com/>

Urbanspoon is an American based website with global impact and with local restaurant reviews. The website automatically begins on the Victorian section displaying the latest most popular reviewed restaurants and cafes, a best of fine and casual dining and cheap eats. Also listed are the top reviewed suburbs. Of great use for those wishing to find multicultural foods is a section entitled Top Food Types listing seventy-five categories. Each category has an indication by a number figure of how many restaurants have been reviewed in the category. Clicking upon a category will display that categories page with title, Google map and a list of the best restaurants for that category. Within the list of all restaurants visitors to the site are able to sort the list by name (default), price and popularity. The percentage rating is derived from restaurant visitors using the Urbanspoon website, or mobile application, to click on a 'I like it' or 'Didn't like it' button.  Each restaurant and eatery has an individual listing giving eatery name, phone number, address and website. Included with each listing are a Google map showing location and, where applicable, links to critic reviews from newspapers and magazines, links to food blogger reviews and Urbanspoon user reviews posted to the page. An indication is given for the average cost of main meals. A desire to find food places in a particular suburb in Melbourne is easy using the All Suburbs area from the main page and selecting either a region or a particular suburb within each region. Urbanspoon is one of the largest restaurant review websites in the world with indepth coverage for Victoria, and Melbourne. J.S.