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What’s a techie to do when he’s running errands and suddenly feels hunger pangs? Find food with these top restaurant locating apps, of course!

Urban Spoon

There is perhaps no food finding app more ubiquitous than UrbanSpoon, a website powered buy user reviews that is also available as an iPhone app. This app uses a randomizer to help users find food within specific cuisines, locales and even price points. When the user isn’t in the mood for a surprise, a standard search feature offers a more straight-forward approach to finding some tasty grub.

Open Table

OpenTable is a free app that is available to hungry mobile users on a variety of operating systems. Windows, BlackBerry, Apple and Android owners are all in luck with this one, which allows them to not only locate nearby restaurants but to find those that are accepting reservations and make those reservations directly from their phones. Reservation service is not available during BlackBerry outages, but this is a good app nonetheless. Only restaurants that are enrolled into the app’s program allow people to make reservations; however, many of them offer complete menus.

Zagat

Another app that allows mobile users to make reservations it Zagat. However, it’s the review feature that gives this app a leg up, at least when it comes to restaurants in populated areas. Zagat’s app offers a wealth of information about restaurants in the area, and it even recommends eateries based on occasions. It’s never been easier to find a place to host a birthday dinner or to have a first date. This app by Handmark Inc. does have a steep price tag of $9.99, however.

Restaurant Locator Apps

Yelp

Wit so many new apps, it can be easy to forget that Yelp was among the first to help smartphone users find all sorts of local businesses. The website and app are populated with reviews from real people, giving the down-low on all sorts of restaurants and cafes. The ability to write reviews directly from the app adds to this app’s universal appeal, and users can even interact with other friends via Yelp. Unfortunately, some businesses have been suspected of padding their pages with false positive reviews, so users should take overly optimistic restaurant reviews with a grain of salt.

FastFood

Finally, this app shows reviews, menus, locations and even deals for local restaurants all in once place. FastFood even offers recipes, drinks and nutritional information for over 100,000 grocery items. When making a fancy dinner at home or wanting to grab a quick dinner before a night on the town, FastFood is the app to use. There’s even an HD version for iPad users that makes better use of the large screen.

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12 Comments

  1. Though the number of applications available for Apple’s iPhone is daunting, all iPhone apps are sold exclusively through the iTunes store..

  2. These are cool applications! You can easily choose some restaurants or fast foods you want to visit. Thanks for sharing this!

  3. This is the first time i heard about this apps and i know a lot of people will benefit from this. That is why i’m so excited to download this to see what this new apps can offer us.

  4. The Map application uses GPS signals to locate the user’s specific location, making it simple to get driving directions to nearby businesses while on the go.

  5. Great application, it’s a complete application… Thanks for sharing all of these with us…

  6. The ability to write reviews directly from the app adds to this app’s universal appeal, and users can even interact with other friends via Yelp. Unfortunately, some businesses have been suspected of padding their pages with false positive reviews, so users should take overly optimistic restaurant reviews with a grain of salt.

  7. The best, and possibly my favorite iPhone apps that are available now, for a fee, or for free, and are some of the most downloaded apps for the iPhone include games, finance, and news. This is no particular order as to which one I like the best, as each app offers me the entertainment, information, and knowledge that I am seeking in an app.

  8. Great post. You can easily choose some restaurants or fast foods you want to visit. Thanks for sharing this!

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