3 Restaurant Review Sites

http://reviewsby.us/

Reviewsby.us is a site concerned with restaurant reviews. The site features selected restaurants throughout the United States. The site provides premier dishes of these restaurants and personal feedback on the menu item. The site also has a scoring system for the restaurant that is based on a five star system, one being the weakest and five being the strongest. The blog also has links to restaurant websites and addresses of the restaurants listed as well.

Although, this is not exactly the direction that I am headed, it is a nice reference for customizing my restaurant blog. The blog is well organized and easy to follow. I especially like the pictures of the selected menu items.

http://tcrestaurantreview.blogspot.com/

Marty Andrade heads up this blog on restaurants in the Minneapolis area. He features his latest restaurant ventures in a diary style blog, much like the ones we use in class. His blog is varied in his style of reviewing restaurants. In his latest submission, he describes the history of a burger restaurant. He describes this restaurant in regard to their assumed invention of the “burger”. In other submissions, he casually reviews his personal dining experiences from food to service. He also discusses the latest reconstructions and news of the restaurant community.

Personally, I like his method and his candor. I do want to have a little more pizzazz in my blog. I think it is more difficult to find credibility in some of his submissions. Being that I have worked in the restaurant business for much of my adult life, I feel more than capable to deliver an informative and beneficial blog to the community. Marty does not have many comments in his blog and it hard to judge the effect it is having. I am not sure that matters, but I was glad to be able to see that.

http://www.jatbar.com/

The Jatbar site is a restaurant review blog that is filled with information. The site provides links to helpful restaurant resources in the bay area, such as city maps, chat board, frequently asked questions, and downloads. This site is upheld by two men that do not profess to know much about restaurants per say, but love food. They lead off their blog with their mission statement of providing honest restaurant experiences from their perspective. They have 830 restaurants listed on their site and links to some of the restaurant websites or at least a quick access to a past review. Their blog is also in diary style. Specific commentary for each entry is not accessible.

I think this is the blog that I most identify with as far as style and what I hope to display in my blog. I want to be able to list all the restaurants and their locations. I also loved their idea of having a feature restaurant with a picture of a specified dish. One thing that I would do differently would be to keep on the focus of the blog. The Jatbar blog entries seem to go off topic and be more synonymous with a journal than an ongoing informative guide to restaurants.