How to Find NYC Restaurants Online

Great eating experiences is one of the many unique characteristics of NYC. There are eating establishments on almost every block, and a wide variety of global cuisines are available. If you are visiting NYC or are a resident, every once in a while you would want to check out newer, popular and unique restaurants and enhance your experience of NYC. Here’s how to find NYC restaurants online.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Go online and pull out the home page of your favorite search engine, such as Google or Yahoo.
2. Search using keywords such as ‘NYC restaurants’ and note that a long list of results will come up. View some of the Web sites and see if any catch your fancy.
3. Visit popular dining and restaurant-oriented Web sites (see below).
4. Go to www.menupages.com, a Web site that specializes in providing online menus of numerous NYC restaurants.
5. Search by specifying your area or neighborhood. NYC is made up of 5 boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Staten Island. Search by using the name of each borough to find restaurants in those areas.
6. Narrow down your search further by specifying the exact neighborhood of the borough you are looking at. Some of the popular neighborhoods with great eating establishments are Brooklyn, Chelsea, Chinatown, East Village, Financial District, Gramercy Park, Greenwich Village, Little Italy, Lower East Side, Midtown East, Midtown West, Astoria, SoHo, TriBeCa, Upper East Side and Upper West Side. Search by highlighting these areas.
7. Search by type of cuisine. American, Italian, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Lebanese, Latin, Ethiopian or any other type of cuisine that you want to explore--chances are that NYC has a restaurant serving that type of food.
8. Search by name of the restaurant. If you know the name of the restaurant, use that name in the search box and specify NYC or New York along with it.
9. Search restaurants by price range. Use keywords such as cheap, inexpensive, budget, moderate, expensive, fancy, etc. to refine your search.
10. Search by features you are looking for in the restaurant. Use keywords such as bar, pub, 24 hours, coffeeshop, celeb spotting, breakfast/brunch, live music, kid friendly, Prix-Fixe, romantic, good for groups and so on.

Tips & Warnings

• Several prominent chefs and celebrities have created fine dining establishments where prior reservation is often required. Some of the popular and celebrated chefs are Mario Batali, Eric Ripert, Charlie Palmer, Michael Romano, Bobby Flay, David Waltuck and Silvano Marchetto.
• Read reviews of several restaurants online, visit the Web sites of restaurants and view their online menu to make an informed decision about restaurants.

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