restaurant discovery

Tell wants you to eat like a celebrity chef

Figuring out where to eat is often a headache. While there are a plethora of restaurant-discovery apps and sites already out there, one app, available today, aims to make the process a lot easier. 

Southeast Asian Restaurant Booking App Offpeak Gets $800,000

Offpeak, a Malaysia-based restaurant booking startup, has raised a Series A round of $800,000 led by Gobi Partners. The company will use its new capital to expand into Southeast Asian cities, starting

Urbanspoon Folds Into Zomato Following Acquisition

Unless they are also Taylor Swift fans, Urbanspoon users will no longer be able to shake it out. The restaurant app has shut down following its acquisition by Zomato for about $50 million to $60 milli

Restaurant Discovery Site Zomato Buys IAC’s Urbanspoon, Enters The U.S.

Zomato, the restaurant discovery site backed by Sequoia, has bought Urbanspoon from IAC, the latest in a string of acquisitions around the world. Terms of the deal were undisclosed, but sources tell T

Backed By Sequoia, Zomato Closes $37M Series D To Expand Its Restaurant Discovery Service Internationally

Zomato wants to eat Yelp's lunch. The Indian restaurant discovery service has been chipping away at the space since 2008, mostly in its home market. Today it's closed a $37M funding round from Sequoia

New App MyFab5 Wants To Offer Better Restaurant Recommendations By Nixing Reviews And Ratings

Restaurant discovery apps have become increasingly simple, all the better to cater to diners rendered indecisive by low blood sugar. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.urbanspoon.com">UrbanSpoon's</a

Nara Gets First Telco Customer As SingTel Tries To Fend Off Content Competition

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.singtel.com">SingTel</a> has licensed <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nara.me">Nara Logics</a>' restaurant recommendation engine in a bid to give its Digital Li

Restaurant Discovery App Dish.fm Becomes A “Best Dish” Search Engine In Over 850 Cities Worldwide

Dish.fm, the recently relaunched restaurant recommendation app which focuses on the best menu items, as opposed to overall venue reviews, is today rolling out an update which expands the service into

Nara Brings Its Restaurant Recommendation Service To iOS And Android, Expands To 25 Cities

In the world of restaurant recommendations, the focus these days is squarely on social recommendations. <a target="_blank" href="http://nara.me">Nara</a>, which is launching its mobile apps for <a tar

Combining Yelp & Twitter For Foodies, Fondu’s Redesign Beefs Up Recommendations, Discovery

At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last year, Gauri Manglik, Mike Lewis, and Orion Burt <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/spoton-shows-what-you-should-do-and-who-you-should-do-it-with/">launched SpotO