Dining Guides
Bay Area
Metroactive Dining Guides
This site gives both 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 is split by city names or type of dining.
Comprehensive site with an archive.
Reservations Tonight!
San Francisco Restaurant Specialist Service.
SF Guide: Dining
Short reviews of trendy SF restaurants. Also includes a food-based tour of the
City.
SF Station Food Page
A fun site which includes detailed reviews of some of the hottest restaurants
in San Francisco. Also includes capsule reviews of bars, cafes, and juice bars
in the City. Click Food & Drink in the right-hand sidebar.
SF Gate - Food Section
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
Cuisine Net: Restaurant Central
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
Over 150,000 restaurants listed and 120,000 reviews!
Chef Moz
You can read and write restaurant reviews here, as well as find direct links to
reviews on other sites. This site is ruun 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
"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 in and around New York City. Aside from the reviews, find other interested food related sections, like news, recommended readings, special reports, and more.
Open Table
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
The brand name of America's leading guides to restaurants and hotels.
Alice Statler Library, City College of San Francisco
Updated February 15, 2005
