- Burrp (free)
Burrp is a free restaurant finding app that connects you and your smartphone to a huge database of restaurant listings based on your locality. The app is a product of Burrp.com which is a very popular website for finding Restaurants, Events and Reviews of places around you. Just open the app and punch your location and it will automatically find restaurants sorted by reviews and ratings. Overall a very simple and easy to use app.
- Urbanspoon (free)
iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android
Urbanspoon is very much similar to burrp. Urbanspoon uses the phones location through GPS to find restaurants and food around you. The app for the iPhone was launched in mid 2008 and has seen a lot of updates since then. One of the unique features of this app is that if you can’t decide what to eat or which restaurant to try, you can just shake the phone and it will pop up a random restaurant in that locality. It also provides user reviews and ratings similar to burrp.
- Yelp (free)
iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android, Windows Phone, Palm Pre
Yelp was also started as a web-based application but has moved to mobile platforms. It provides one of the widest range of restaurant listings, thus making it incredibly easy for users to find restaurants even in small towns. Yelp also shows international search results and listings. Similar to other apps, reviews and ratings are provided by fellow Yelp users.
- Eat Street (free)
iPhone, iPad
Eat Street is a location based free app that is developed by Food Network. It helps users locate best street food and food trucks in their city. The app makes use of GPS and shows map location for both mobile food trucks as well as stationary food carts. Eat Street list only major cities in US but is spreading very fast.
- Local Eats (45Rs)
iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android (free)
Local Eats offers only about local restaurants and food carts rather than national chains or fast food giants. It lists some of the best local restaurants in the major cities of US. The app comes with filters such as price, hours, vegetarian or non vegetarian, bar area and lots more. It’s a great app for foodies who want to experience some of the best local food that is unique to the city.
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