Bay Area

Metroactive Dining Guides
http://www.metroactive.com/dining
Provides restaurant listings as well as full-length reviews. The site is organized by Bay Area regions: Silicon Valley, Santa Cruz, North Bay, and San Francisco; Each area then by city names or type of dining. Comprehensive site with an archive.

Om Organics
http://www.omorganics.org
Provides a listing of Bay Area restaurants and markets that promote organics.

Reservations Tonight!
http://www.reservationstonight.com/
San Francisco Restaurant Specialist Service.

SF Guide: Dining
http://www.sfguide.com/restaurants.htm
Short reviews of trendy SF restaurants. Also includes a food-based tour of the City.

SF Station Food Page
http://www.sfstation.com/
Select Food & Drink from the left sidebar. Provides detailed reviews of some of the hottest restaurants in San Francisco. Also includes capsule reviews of bars, cafes, and juice bars.

SF Gate - Food Section
http://www.sfgate.com/eguide/food
Features restaurant reviews from the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as a restaurant search engine that enables you to find eating establishments by type of cuisine, location, keyword, or all of the above.

National and Beyond

Dine Site
http://www.dinesite.com/
Chose the city you want to search, then answer a variety of questions about the type of restaurant you're seeking. A list appears which you can browse, includes reviews.

Dine.com
http://www.dine.com/
Over 150,000 restaurants listed and 120,000 reviews!

Chef Moz
http://chefmoz.org/
You can read and write restaurant reviews here, as well as find direct links to reviews on other sites. This site is run and operated by volunteer editors, who scour the web to collect restaurant information. The search engine is global in scope, so chose your country first, then city, type of cuisine, name of restaurant, etc. Par of the Open Directory Project.

Chowhound
http://chowhound.com/
"A chowhound is someone who spends nearly every waking moment planning his/her next meal. Whether dining in an expensive cafe or grabbing a quick scrambled egg sandwich to munch on the way to work, chowhounds hate to ingest anything undelicious, and they won't hesitate to go far out of their way for Slightly Better. " This site critiques restaurants as well as providing news, recommended readings, special reports, and more.

Open Table
http://www.opentable.com
Online restaurant guide and reservation maker for selected restaurants in selected areas (Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Vail, Washington DC).

Zagat Survey
http://www.zagat.com
The brand name of America's leading guides to restaurants and hotels.

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