Restaurants
Let things taste of what they are - Alice Waters
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I Don't Trust Restaurant Letter Grades
When you're choosing a place to eat, how much do you factor in the rating from the Department of Health? Personally, I barely think about it. Far more important to me is—is it close to me? Does the dining area look okay enough? If it's a restaurant or food truck I'm unfamiliar with, then I'll consider the Yelp rating. But it seems to me that if a restaurant passes my eyeball test—looks clean, no visible signs of serving actual garbage—it's probably fine, right? I mean, they're open. They must be doing something right. Right? I obviously have no idea what I'm talking about.
Los Angeles follows the A/B/C grade system with the rating displayed prominently on the storefront. While I've…
Resources
How To Eat Healthy In A Restaurant
I help my clients navigate restaurant dining so they can continue to support their goals. A lot of people mistakenly think “healthy” equals dry salads and steamed chicken breast with a side of misery, but that’s a total myth. The key is to prioritize what matters most to you and make room for the worth-it splurges.
Too Much Power to the People? A Food Safety Site Tests the Limits
This is the era of internet-assisted consumer revenge, and as scorned customers in industries from dentistry to dog-walking have used digital platforms to broadcast their displeasure, the balance of power has tipped considerably in the buyer’s favor. This is especially true of IWasPoisoned, which has collected about 89,000 reports since it opened in 2009.
A Craveable Kind of Healthy Eating
A new golden age is upon us—though maybe “turmeric age” would be a better name. Good-for-you food has never been this good. Fat is no longer ingredient non grata. Vegetable dishes are often the most exciting items on the menu. American chefs draw on a global pantry for nutritional powerhouses such as kimchi and chia seeds. If there was once a wall between health food and serious cooking, it’s been kicked in.
Beyond Kimchi And Kale: How Millennial 'Foodies' Are Challenging The Supply Chain From Farm To Table
It’s no longer just a chef’s challenge to write a menu with kimchi and kale; it’s now the farmer’s job to grow what the consumers are demanding, which often means, re-thinking the system they’ve long worked within.
Calorie counts on menus are going to be mandatory in 2018
The biggest nutrition transparency effort in America is finally happening.
From Virtual Restaurants To Exclusive Pop-Ups, The New War In Food Delivery Is In The Kitchen
As the competition between delivery companies heats up in a very crowded market, the next battleground is in the kitchen.
Gastronomic Bigotry
Do you think an ethnic restaurant caused your food poisoning? You might be a little bit racist.
How Yelp Might Clean Up the Restaurant Industry
Ever wonder about the risk of vermin infection at your favorite eatery? The review site is teaming up with public-health officials to make health ratings count.
Mobile-Ordering Apps Create Problems for Restaurants
Starbucks and others found online ordering initially increased congestion and frustrated customers, among other issues.
Now you can dine in or grab healthful goods to go at these L.A. restaurants and juice bars
Artisanal coffeehouses, juice bars and "conscious" restaurants are increasingly morphing into mini emporiums of all things healthful and wholesome, be they T-shirts made from sustainably grown cotton, eco-conscious glass drinking bottles or probiotic-infused beauty powders. The idea, say the operators of these drinking-and-dining establishments, is to perpetuate the healthy lifestyle once the customer has left the building.
Restaurant Meals Are Just As Unhealthy As Fast Food
Fast food is associated with clogged arteries, obesity and overall poor health, but full-service restaurants are often serving up even more sodium and cholesterol than their quicker counterparts.
Restaurants Are the New Factories
Food-service jobs are eating the economy. Maybe that’s not a good thing.
The claim: food trucks are as safe as restaurants
That's the conclusion of a new report by the Institute of Justice, a Virginia-based libertarian law firm. The group found that food trucks and carts don't receive any more citations for health-safety violations than restaurants do. In fact, in most of the cities studied, the trucks actually did better.
The easiest thing you can do to lose weight: avoid restaurants at all costs
If you want to lose weight, there's one simple thing you can do that will definitely help — and it doesn't require starving yourself, avoiding gluten, or buying magic weight loss supplements. Just cook at home.
The Paradox of American Restaurants
The quality and variety of food in the U.S. has never been better. The business seems to be struggling. What’s really going on?
The Tangled Web of Lies Behind Many Restaurant Menus
From mercury-laden "snapper" that's not really snapper to antibiotic-loaded honey, Olmsted's book details many of the common scams and counterfeits that make their way onto our dinner plates and into our grocery carts. Here, he answers questions about his book's most startling discoveries—and the implications fake food has for American health.
These Hot Restaurants Aren’t on Maps, Only in Apps
A virtual restaurant model, with low overhead, is a shift away from the capital-intensive model that kills 60% of new restaurants in their first five years.
I Don't Trust Restaurant Letter Grades
A, B, or C? IDGAF. Fancy letter grades doled out by clueless health department inspectors are less important than common sense and letting a restaurant earn your trust.
Eat This, Not That!
Today, thanks to the work done by Eat This, Not That!, most restaurants now post their calorie counts on their websites and even right in their stores. Instead of hiding their nutrition, chains from Boston Market to California Pizza Kitchen are introducing healthier options and letting us make informed choices about the most important choice of all—what we put into our bodies. And this website will help keep you informed.
Foursquare
Foursquare helps you find the perfect places to go with friends.
HappyCow
Our purpose is to make healthy food easy to find and more accessible. Founded in 1999, HappyCow was created as a public service to assist travelers and people everywhere find vegan, vegetarian, and healthy food.
Healthy Dining Finder
It is the word on everyone’s lips and the thought on everyone’s minds. Nutrition. Once thought to be a vague and even unappetizing topic, nutrition is now a rapidly growing part of our lives. It has become a driving force in our culture, defining sweeping policies and individual choices alike. Now, with growing concern for spiraling rates of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity, we are finding an effective and simple solution in nutrition.
HealthyOut
Looking for healthy food when you eat out? HealthyOut finds you dishes at local restaurants that match your diet and nutrition preferences. Under 500 calories, low carb, Italian? We have just the meal for you. We make it easy to eat healthy and stay on your diet when you're eating out!
NoWait
“They have a great system: You give them your phone number and they text you when the table is ready! Why doesn’t everywhere do this? Courtney C | As featured on Yelp.com
OpenTable
OpenTable is the only app that helps you make reservations at over 20,000 restaurants in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Explore great restaurants, find available tables, and earn reward points for every reservation.
Resy
Reserve is your personal dining concierge. With just a few taps, Reserve enables a more seamless experience, from getting the table you want to paying effortlessly at the end of the meal.
VegDining.com
Your Online Guide to Vegetarian Restaurants Around the World.
VegOut
Every vegetarian knows that eating out can be a difficult task. VegOut makes this task easier by providing you with the world's largest international listing of vegan, vegetarian and vegetarian-friendly restaurants at your finger tips.
Yelp
Heading out? Bring Yelp with you! Find the best businesses around you, save money by discovering nearby deals, and share your experiences with Tips, Check-ins, and Photos.
Zomato
Our mission is to ensure nobody has a bad meal ever again.
Best New Restaurant
Over twelve seasons of Top Chef, Tom Colicchio has scoured the nation for the greatest new talents in cooking. He's expanding his search with Bravo's new show Best New Restaurant, where the cooking legend will seek out the most promising new biz in the U.S.
Chefs Feed
The inside connection to the best dishes and food culture, proudly presented by chefs.
DoorDash
DoorDash enables delivery in areas where it was not available. Our mission is to empower small business owners to offer delivery in an affordable and convenient way. We are achieving this mission first by enabling restaurant food delivery.
EAT
EAT is a local to BC magazine and news website covering all things food and drink related in BC. Magazine is bi-monthly, website is daily.
Eater
Eater is the source for people who care about dining and drinking in the nation's most important food cities. A favorite of industry pros and amateurs alike, Eater has an uncanny knack for finding out what's opening where, who's serving what, and how it's all going down.
GrubHub
Order delivery food online from nearby restaurants.
Iwaspoisoned.com
Iwaspoisoned.com is for people who love to eat out but don’t expect to be ill because of it. It is a consumer led website for diners to report suspected food poisoning or bad food experiences. This real time information is shared by consumers, food authorities, restaurants, and industry with one aim – to make eating a safer experience.
Seamless
Seamless is simply the easiest way to order food for delivery or takeout. Whatever you’re in the mood for, wherever you’re in the mood for it, you’ve got it. No menus, no phone calls, no repeating yourself.
Bento.com
Tokyo Food Page/Bento.com is a complete guide to Japanese cuisine and eating in Japan. With great recipes, tours of Japanese markets, and tips on the best places to eat in Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe.
Find Me Gluten Free
Find Me Gluten Free helps you eat gluten-free. View local business ratings and reviews, gluten-free menus, get directions, and call them right from the app. Also, easily view gluten-free menus and allergen lists of chains and fast food restaurants. Find gluten-free pizza, bakeries, fast food, local businesses, and more!
Restaurant Nutrition
The Restaurant Nutrition application allows a user to easily view nutritional information about restaurant menus and track what they have eaten.
Starbucks
Dietary and nutrition information on many of our beverages and foods, including seasonal, regional and limited-time offerings, are provided here so you can find a balance that's just right for you.
Tabbedout
Tabbedout is your answer. Our free app for iPhone and Android lets you take control of your tab and pay securely with your phone. Stop dealing with the hassle of waiting, leaving your card at the bar, dealing with coupons, or a pile of cards when you split your tab with friends.
WaitAway
Say goodbye to pen and paper lists! Manage your wait list and reservations, all through a simple, single app.
Introducing Stitches!
Your Path to Meaningful Connections in the World of Health and Medicine
Connect, Collaborate, and Engage!
Coming Soon - Stitches, the innovative chat app from the creators of HWN. Join meaningful conversations on health and medical topics. Share text, images, and videos seamlessly. Connect directly within HWN's topic pages and articles.
