How to Find Restaurant Reviews Online

Have you ever wished you had gotten a review of a restaurant before you went ahead and wasted your time, money and good company on food that was not as great as you expected? Here’s an easy way to do it--go online! Find restaurant reviews online by following these suggestions.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Go online and pull up the homepage of your favorite search engine, such as Yahoo! or Google.
2. Type "restaurant reviews" + the name of your city in the search box and click on search. Visit some of the Web sites displayed on the results page.
3. Visit popular restaurant review Web sites (see Resources).
4. Locate your city or neighborhood on these review sites.
5. Search restaurants by cuisine after pulling out a collective list of the restaurants in your city.
6. Search reviews by name of the restaurant. You can also search directly in the search engine by entering name of the restaurant + city name + reviews in the search box.
7. Search on personal sites, blogs, news sites, newspaper Web sites and city guides for restaurant reviews.

Tips & Warnings

• Visit Web sites of local restaurants to see menus, photographs, testimonials and to get general information. This information, along with the reviews, if any, can help you make a well-informed decision.