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.
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Monday, 16 May 2011
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.
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.
Spatula, Spoon and Saturday blog
Kat 2008, Spatula, spoon and Saturday, weblog, viewed 28 April 2011, <http://www.spatulaspoonandsaturday.com/>
Spatula, spoon and Saturday is one woman's personal Melbourne-based food diary giving full reviews of each eatery, and at times including recipes, of weekend meals with family and friends. The reviews are clear, well written and insightful from the author's personal eating experience for each eatery visited. High quality photographs adorn each review depicting the food and venue under review. The photographs alone tell a story but can almost overpower the review due to their size and quantity. The reviewer's blog has been included in the popular urbanspoon website and its associated smartphone application. Each review gives details of the eatery, food consumed, price, overall ambience and feel as well as service recieved. The blog is well indexed with seperate indexes for recipes, reviews by eatery category (cafe, restaurant, Melbourne CBD lunches, etc) and most importantly for this project, by cuisine. As a place to gather ideas and inspiration for multicultural eatries to try, on a budget, Spatula, spoon and Saturday would be a great place to start, and to keep coming back to read new reviews and blog entries. J.S.
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| Spatula, Spoon and Saturday |
Spatula, spoon and Saturday is one woman's personal Melbourne-based food diary giving full reviews of each eatery, and at times including recipes, of weekend meals with family and friends. The reviews are clear, well written and insightful from the author's personal eating experience for each eatery visited. High quality photographs adorn each review depicting the food and venue under review. The photographs alone tell a story but can almost overpower the review due to their size and quantity. The reviewer's blog has been included in the popular urbanspoon website and its associated smartphone application. Each review gives details of the eatery, food consumed, price, overall ambience and feel as well as service recieved. The blog is well indexed with seperate indexes for recipes, reviews by eatery category (cafe, restaurant, Melbourne CBD lunches, etc) and most importantly for this project, by cuisine. As a place to gather ideas and inspiration for multicultural eatries to try, on a budget, Spatula, spoon and Saturday would be a great place to start, and to keep coming back to read new reviews and blog entries. J.S.
Lygon St.: stories and recipes of Melbourne's melting pot
Harden, M 2008, Lygon Street: stories from Melbourne's melting pot, Murdoch Books Australia, Millers Point, NSW.
Background reading for foodies giving an insight into a true Melbourne melting pot of the famous Lygon Street in Carlton, Lygon Street is a well-researched, insightful and in-depth historical study of the multicultural history of the street and the businesses and eateries contained there. Lygon Street is both an interesting read from a cultural point of view and a culinary delight with recipes often passed from generation to generation or by an establishment was best known for. The reader is shown a diverse array of businesses as well as individual personal stories interviews from those who grew up in the area. As a reference tool, used more for background reading and insight into the influence of our migrant heritage Lygon Street makes for fascinating reading and leaves the reader with a desire to walk the length of the street, sampling the plethora of foods available. Although no actual reviews are given, prices nor current standing of the businesses this book is a delight for foodies wishing to know the history of the multicultural background in relation to food as is found along famous Lygon Street. At 359-pages this is quite a sizable book complete with bibliography for further reading and an index at the back referencing all businesses and individuals mentioned through its pages as well as all recipes shown in bolt text. The content lists chapter headings with food related titles as the book flows from the street's earliest history through to current day. Filled with historic photographs, portraits and lush colour pages of food. Found in a library's cookery section (641.5099451 HARD) Lygon Street is more a biography than a cooking book, a biography of a street best known for its multicultural background and with it the eateries contained there to. J.S.
Background reading for foodies giving an insight into a true Melbourne melting pot of the famous Lygon Street in Carlton, Lygon Street is a well-researched, insightful and in-depth historical study of the multicultural history of the street and the businesses and eateries contained there. Lygon Street is both an interesting read from a cultural point of view and a culinary delight with recipes often passed from generation to generation or by an establishment was best known for. The reader is shown a diverse array of businesses as well as individual personal stories interviews from those who grew up in the area. As a reference tool, used more for background reading and insight into the influence of our migrant heritage Lygon Street makes for fascinating reading and leaves the reader with a desire to walk the length of the street, sampling the plethora of foods available. Although no actual reviews are given, prices nor current standing of the businesses this book is a delight for foodies wishing to know the history of the multicultural background in relation to food as is found along famous Lygon Street. At 359-pages this is quite a sizable book complete with bibliography for further reading and an index at the back referencing all businesses and individuals mentioned through its pages as well as all recipes shown in bolt text. The content lists chapter headings with food related titles as the book flows from the street's earliest history through to current day. Filled with historic photographs, portraits and lush colour pages of food. Found in a library's cookery section (641.5099451 HARD) Lygon Street is more a biography than a cooking book, a biography of a street best known for its multicultural background and with it the eateries contained there to. J.S.
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