NY Food Finds- App Review! Urbanspoon for iOS

Are you consistently confused as to which restaurant you should eat at? Are you as indecisive as me? Well, there's good news. Urbanspoon is an application available on Apple's App Store for FREE and it will help you make the decision on where to find the best eats! My review is going to cover the iPad version of Urbanspoon, but the iPhone version is very similar. In addition, you can find Urbanspoon on Blackberry's App World and the Android Market but you may not experience the exact same screens as I will show you here. Want to know how it works? Read on.

This is the screen you'll see once you've fired up the app.

The beginning Urbanspoon screen shows three columns: the first containing the city the restaurant will be located in, the second being the type of food the restaurant serves, and the last is the price (ranging from $-$$$$). If you want to "lock in" on a specific category, you can simply press the translucent looking lock icon located to the right of the selected category (you can see it in the photo). Urbanspoon uses your device's GPS to locate where you are, and puts the city closest to you as the primary spot in column one. 

After you've "spun the wheels"

Now that you're in the app, you can either shake the iPad or iPhone (similar to the "shuffle" effect when you're in the music app) and the wheels will spin, or you can simply press the "Spin" button under the third column. In my example, I got White Plains, Seafood, and $$$ which led me to Legal Sea Foods (which, by the way, is a fantastic restaurant, albeit a chain). So, lets pretend I'm totally interested in learning more about Legal Sea Foods. Next, I'd press the small blue arrow next to the restaurants name, and this screen will come up:

Here, you can see the percentage rating of how many people like the restaurant (in this case, 76%), the phone number and address, view the menu (not for every restaurant in the app, but in this instance it redirects you to Legal Sea Food's website), view more details about the restaurant, and even some Urbanspoon user reviews. My next step is always to press the "View Details" button, which brings you here:

It's basically Urbanspoon's website on the device you're using. 

In my opinion, its a one-stop-shop for all of the information you could need to know about the restaurant.

My suggestion: Use Urbanspoon to explore food you've never tried! I had no idea there was a Korean restaurant in White Plains before I explored this app! You'll find new restaurants as soon as your download is over! And plus, its free. Find it in the App Store, App World, App Market, whatever smartphone you have... I'm pretty sure there's an Urbanspoon application for it.