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Want to check out local restaurants or find a decent place to take visitors or your boss? Here are some of the websites that list and/or review New Jersey eating places.
Restaurants.com is a national website for restaurants that offer discount coupons. It has a good selection of NJ restaurants although you will not find the top places throwing their hats in the ring here. The model is something like the Entertainment books. You pay $10 to receive a $25 gift coupon. Or you pay $20 for a $50 certificate. Some restrictions apply: at many restaurants you must order $35 worth of food, or order two entrees per certificate and weekends and holidays may be excluded. Be sure to read the fine print.
You are limited to those places that affiliate with this website, but it’s a good way to try a new restaurant without putting out too much cash. Don’t wait too long after you’ve printed out your discount. Most certificates are good only for a year or less—and the restaurant might go out of business. http://www.restaurants.com
Urbanspoon is a reviewing site. It covers north/central New Jersey as well as a few targeted cities. Reviewers seem to be real fans who want to pitch their favorite restaurants, but you also get plenty of disgruntled patrons who can vent. One advantage here is that the website also includes reviews from the Star-Ledger and NJ Monthly-- two of the last remaining media that actually pay their restaurant reviewers. So you get both professional and amateur views on an eatery. http://www.urbanspoon.com
Restaurantpassion.com: Lists many Jersey restaurants with links to their websites and menus.
This is primarily a portal for restaurant websites. http://www.restaurantpassion.com
Zagats has a NJ version of its famous restaurant guide in print form. Zagats knows how to categorize restaurants by price, type of cuisine, location, byob, family friendly and so forth. The free part of their website is limited to people who members who review a certain restaurant. Unlike the print version there is no editor, or mixing of reviews.
A premium membership (a little over two dollars per month) gives you full reviews, ratings and other stuff. http://www.zagat.com
TripAdvisor: Used primarily to find hotels and travel packages, this website also covers restaurants and has the usual amateur write-ups. Like other citizen opinion websites, it can be used by establishments to write fake favorable accolades. http://www.Tripadvisor.com
These are just a few of the many guides to eating places in the Garden State. Bon appetit!
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