Restaurant review site

[Deenem]

So I was messing around on my holiday and I registered a really cool domain name, www.fatyum.com. Nothing there at the moment, but I was thinking of putting up a site where you could go and review restaurants and find new restaurant to go to. All user generated content.

So, my questions is, what features would you want from a site like this?

 

[Dolby]

Something like this ?

http://www.restaurants.co.za/

 

[blunomore]

So I was messing around on my holiday and I registered a really cool domain name, www.fatyum.com. Nothing there at the moment, but I was thinking of putting up a site where you could go and review restaurants and find new restaurant to go to. All user generated content.

So, my questions is, what features would you want from a site like this?

General reviews
Full restaurant menus
Proper directions to get there

 

[Hosehead]

food 24 has restuarant reviews but the problem is that many of them are generated by the restuarant owners or associates in order to drum up business. Still in between you do get the odd decent review. A new site would have to have quality reviewers and by that I mean unbiased, consistent reviewers who know what they are talking about when it comes to food and service otherwise a site can just be another clone of food 24 reviews where people add their 2c.

 

[Deenem]

I'm want to focus on user generated content; reviews from people that have been to the restaurant, what did you order, was the service good, was your meal good, that sort of thing.

My brain is still in holiday mode, it's still warming up

Thanks for all the advice.

 

[Sackboy]

Something like this ?

http://www.restaurants.co.za/

I couldn't find proper reviews on that site. It's just adverts.

 

[hj2k_x]

Unbiased content.
Updated menus, prices, reviews, directions to get there and contact details.

Most of these are all sorely lacking from current review sites.

 

[DJ...]

www.food24.com/Food24/Components/Restaurant/F24LatestReviews
www.dining-out.co.za
www.eatout.co.za
http://www.what2night.co.za/restaurants/?gclid=COXaudvs-ZcCFQZinAodQ2EwDA
http://www.wininganddining.co.za/gauteng/johannesburg/illovo/2-thai-4

They all have the option to submit reviews, but South Africans seem more interested in generating "pokes" and racing imitation facebonk cars than anything worthwhile...

 

[Pitbull]

So I was messing around on my holiday and I registered a really cool domain name, www.fatyum.com. Nothing there at the moment, but I was thinking of putting up a site where you could go and review restaurants and find new restaurant to go to. All user generated content.

So, my questions is, what features would you want from a site like this?

Why not do your own reviews.

Go to restaurants and rate them according to your own style. Then if it picks up you could be eating out or restaurants for free for the rest of your life just doing reviews

You have an awesome idea, now build on it

 

[Veroland]

I like to idea of any person being able to put in a review or add comments to a exisiting one. Thats one way of getting the "personal" experiances in there

 

[Pitbull]

I like to idea of any person being able to put in a review or add comments to a exisiting one. Thats one way of getting the "personal" experiances in there

Yes I would say he can add different pages to his index linking to restaurants he visited and did a review on them. Link to all of them from the index page.

Now a person like myself will look through the index page and see place Z. I always wanted to go there and now I go look there. He did a review and below that there is 100's of comments about the same place.

That should give you an awesome idea of how the place really is. Straight and unbiased. If he posts a good review of a crap place, the users who post there will let us readers know he's talking crap

 

[Veroland]

Yes I would say he can add different pages to his index linking to restaurants he visited and did a review on them. Link to all of them from the index page.

Now a person like myself will look through the index page and see place Z. I always wanted to go there and now I go look there. He did a review and below that there is 100's of comments about the same place.

That should give you an awesome idea of how the place really is. Straight and unbiased. If he posts a good review of a crap place, the users who post there will let us readers know he's talking crap

I have had very good and bad experiances and would like to be able to share it with people. For instance, I found a very good place just the other day and would like to be able to share it with others

 

[Pitbull]

I have had very good and bad experiances and would like to be able to share it with people. For instance, I found a very good place just the other day and would like to be able to share it with others

BigAl ?

No one can write anything wrong about them

 

[blunomore]

Slightly off topic, the current edition of the EatOut Magazine contains reviews on the best 1 000 places to eat in SA.

Worthwhile only if you care for the opinions of the 'experts'.