By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:
There are many restaurant guides on the web and also many sites that allow you to search for restaurants based on specific criteria. Now there is a new site that allows you to search based on social criteria.
TasteSpace, LLC, a New York based portfolio company of The Global Enterprise & Intiative Group, LLC, originally launched TasteSpace.com in beta in 2007.
TasteSpace.com is a multi-faceted Search Engine and Centralized Index of bar/restaurant content available across the Internet. They offer their own database of area bars and restaurants, as well as targeted access to popular online blogs and videos.
The site’s Venue Profiles feature menus, photos, highlights, user reviews, event schedules, specials info and other content, all in one place. You can also order food or make reservations directly from many of the venue profiles. The site’s interactive features let users upload venue photos, suggest details and highlights, and save their favorite bars/restaurants. To ensure accuracy and up-to-date information, we allow owners from our registered venues to manage and regularly update their profiles themselves.
Other options include the “Take Me Out” option, which allows you to search for restaurants or bars based on criteria you choose. While other sites like Zagat.com have search features such as this, but it is not based on profiles provided by the restaurants and bars themselves. The bar search feature breaks down bars by lounge, pub or nightclub. The real innovation is the social criteria search feature. For example, if you are going out with your friends you can search based on that criteria and add one of the following categories; “Young and Reckless”, Young and Sophisticated”, “Mature, But Young At Heart”, “Cultured and Classy”, “Girls Night Out”, and “Just The Fellas”. In the results fields it will give you a percentage on how close your criteria matches to the restaurant or bar retrieved.
One minor criticism is that the site is very Manhattan centric. You can search by Manhattan neighborhoods, but there is only one entry for Brooklyn. That would seem incongruous especially for a foodie site given that some of the most exciting restaurants are in Brooklyn these days.
The “Tastrix” feature is probably the neatest feature on the site. It allows you to search restaurants based on a specific dish or drink.
TasteSpace currently has over 7389 bars and restaurants on its site. Since the site is relatively new, many of the restaurants do not have user reviews, but they do have so-called “partner reviews” which are provided by yelp.com.
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