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The Week In iPhone Apps: Deliciousness
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YervantScapula
08/28/09

In reply to The Week In iPhone Apps: Deliciousness
Uh, I SPECIFICALLY signed up for the RSS of Gizmodo: Not Apple and THIS was in my feeds???? What part of NOT APPLE did you guys not get?
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92BuickLeSabre
08/28/09

@YervantScapula: I see wine and general meals for home and at restaurants. Nothing about apples. Or did you expect them to go through the recipe apps and take out all the ones with apples? That's just crazy talk.

Oh, you mean because the US Open is held in the Big Apple. Good point. What's up with that Giz?
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Drake Shipway
08/28/09

In reply to The Week In iPhone Apps: Deliciousness
VegOut: Where do you tale a date?
(This should say "Where do you TAKE a date" I believe)

Anyways, I like a lot of these apps, thanks!
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92BuickLeSabre
08/28/09

@Drake Shipway: I believe John is referring to the process of wooing a date over dinner with narratives of daring and great adventure.
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92BuickLeSabre
08/28/09

In reply to The Week In iPhone Apps: Deliciousness
I own way too many of these food Apps.

And the ones that I don't own, I'm off to get right now.

Except VegOut, my vegetarian friends can eat bread and a salad and like it, or pick the damned restaurant themselves.
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92BuickLeSabre
11/23/08

In reply to Zagat To Go '09 Hits iPhone App Store
The "hot new App" is "a little pricey." Sure "you could find something similar for less," but if you are part of the "top of the line crowd" it "has the goods." Service is "dependent on your signal," but the design is "consistently classic and minimalist."
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frigg
11/23/08

@92BuickLeSabre: Well done!
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HexiumVII
11/23/08

In reply to Zagat To Go '09 Hits iPhone App Store
Zagat is absolutely useless. It's just snobby people trying to advertise restaurants. Food critics have no idea what they are talking about. Foodie forums are much more useful.
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92BuickLeSabre
11/23/08

@HexiumVII: Yes, because there is nothing snobby about self-identified foodies.
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frigg
11/17/08

In reply to OpenTable iPhone App: Easiest, Most Soulless Restaurant Reservations Ever
I think I've heard that sometimes if a restaurant is booked through its in-house (talk to a person) reservation system, it still might have tables available through Open Table. Something about the restaurant putting aside a certain number of tables for Open Table that may be available even after the stylish hostess with the shiny blond hair and unflappable smile tells you that yes, she has all your albums and she'd be happy to pleasure you in the bathroom, but I'm terribly sorry, there's simply nothing available until December.
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fredygamer
11/17/08

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AAAAAHHH! all these iPhone apps are making me want to buy and iPhone.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/17/08

@fredygamer: This should cure you. A year and a half after the initial release of the original iPhone, it still does not have cut/paste.
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iAirmanshirk
11/17/08

@Lite:

This just in: no need for copy/paste! oops did i say the truth out loud?
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/17/08

@iAirmanshirk: While you may not, some of us do have a need for such a thing...
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Dirk
11/17/08

@iAirmanshirk: Thanks for saying that out loud.

Sure I could use cut/paste, but why is it that so many people act as though it's some sort of deal-breaker? The iphone still rocks.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/17/08

@Dirk: Just stop it OK! I'm trying to convince myself that I don't need to buy one! Sheesh!
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/17/08

In reply to OpenTable iPhone App: Easiest, Most Soulless Restaurant Reservations Ever
Uh, so using sites like Open Table to make reservations during a time in which the restaurant is closed, is anti-social? Let alone the fact that it will send e-mail reminders about your reservation, you can invite others through it, or that they send you deals (Hell, I get deals through Morton's lately.) and quite a few higher end restaurants use it here in Seattle?

Somebody isn't casting a wide net at all here.
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matt buchanan
11/17/08

@Lite: Exceptionally convenient and awesome? Yes. It's still anti-social though. Like real-life networking vs. Facebook.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/17/08

@matt buchanan: It isn't really anti-social if you're not going out of your way to not speak with a person. I can make reservations far quicker w/ a browser than I can by calling and waiting for someone to list off what times they have open reservations for.

It keeps me from having to remember the phone number of a restaurant. I can just go to say, The Melting Pot's website which uses opentable for their reservations when I want to treat the woman to fondue. I could look up the number and call them, but if the link is right there to make the reservation, why wouldn't I?
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Elaine Chow
11/17/08

@Lite: somebody sounds awfully sensitive about the whole "antisocial" jab.
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92BuickLeSabre
11/17/08

@Lite: Not to mention that there is nothing all that social about....*ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring (...) ring, ring, ring, ring, ring* "Hold please." *ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring (...) ring, ring, ring, ring, ring* "Yes, can I help you?" "Yes do you have..." "I'm sorry, hold please." Just a small town girl living in a lonely world She took the midnight train going anywhere Just a city boy born and raised in South Detroit He took the midnight train going anywhere A singer in a smokey room the smell of wine and cheap perfume For a smile they can share the night. It goes on and on and on and on Strangers waiting up down the boulevard. Their shadows searchin in the night Streetlight people living just to find emotion Hiding somewhere in the night Working hard to get my fill everybody wants a thrill Payin anything "Yes, can I help you?" "Yes do you have a table for two Thursday at 8:30?" "We have one at 9:30." "Okay, can you put that under Smith?" "Done." *click*

[where (...) stands for 45 rings]
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/17/08

@Elaine Chow: I'm not antisocial, I'm just a misanthrope that hates society in general. =)

Mostly I just really like Open Table and tend to use it to organize social gatherings for food at restaurants. Which I find to generally be the opposite of being anti-social. Personally I find the idea of eating alone, depressing. I like meals as an experience shared with friends.
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92BuickLeSabre
11/17/08

@92BuickLeSabre: God, I hate a screwed up comment. That should read:

Not to mention that there is nothing all that social about....*ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring (...) ring, ring, ring, ring, ring* "Hold please." Just a small town girl living in a lonely world She took the midnight train going anywhere Just a city boy born and raised in South Detroit He took the midnight train going anywhere A singer in a smokey room the smell of wine and cheap perfume For "Yes, can I help you?" "Yes do you have..." "I'm sorry, hold please." a smile they can share the night. It goes on and on and on and on Strangers waiting up down the boulevard. Their shadows searchin in the night Streetlight people living just to find emotion Hiding somewhere in the night Working hard to get my fill everybody wants a thrill Payin anything "Yes, can I help you?" "Yes do you have a table for two Thursday at 8:30?" "We have one at 9:30." "Okay, can you put that under Smith?" "Done." *click*

[where (...) stands for 45 rings]

[Much better. Now I can sleep in peace tonight.]
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/17/08

@92BuickLeSabre: For reals. It isn't like you engage the person on the phone about what's good at the restaurant when you're calling for a reservation. My luck though, they'd be playing the elevator version of Natalie Imbruglia's Torn. (Which exists, and I've heard it...)
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ripfire
11/17/08

In reply to OpenTable iPhone App: Easiest, Most Soulless Restaurant Reservations Ever
Ok, now how about an app that will pull up a menu and queue up your orders..
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/17/08

@ripfire: God forbid you have to talk to a waiter! The whole point of this app is to not have to talk to someone. You don't have to depend upon them to actually write the reservation down somewhere important. It just goes directly into their reservation system, they confirm it with you, and you lose that sense of adventure where you wait 10 minutes for someone to answer a phone, put you on hold, and then hope they actually hit hold instead of hang up on you.

Now you don't want to have to talk to a waiter who may have valuable insight like don't have the special, or mixing house red with your chocolate fondue may give you the trots?
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Mr.Purple
11/17/08

In reply to OpenTable iPhone App: Easiest, Most Soulless Restaurant Reservations Ever
I don't know what a "resy" is, but I love Momofuku... I assume you like it too...
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matt buchanan
11/17/08

@Mr.Purple: Eater parlance for reservation.
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