[hkuo]

Foodspotting has helped me discover a ton of great places. #1) it's completely user-driven #2) it focuses on local, what's around you, and #3) most important of all, your primary way of browsing is through pictures of actual food, taken by the users themselves.

Screw Yelp and their reviews. You'll have to invest at least 5 minutes actually reading through paragraphs and paragraphs of people's ramblings.

With foodspotting, I just let me eyes do the discovering. And because it's user-driven, it's assumed that if someone took the time to take a photo and post it that they thoroughly enjoyed it. Also, because you're looking at photos of food, you're seeing actual dishes being served, and the most popular ones at that. On Yelp, you're browsing by food type (Mexican, italian etc), and maybe you can click to their website to view the menu. On Foodspotting, you skip all that and see the food you'll actually get.

Sorry if I've rambled a bit, but I'm just a huge fan of their app.

[angryasian]

i actually think their interface makes it terrible as a discovery , but helps when finding a place and seeing pictures of items from a venue.