Savory -New York

August 22, 2006 in Food and Drink, Web-Tech, Online Media

Some time back, I wrote about Turn Here – the travel website that features short videos of cities. If you loved that site and if you are in New York, most certainly check out Savory.  A super-easy wiki format and professionally shot local vidoes of new (and notable) restaurants in New York, Savory hits the nail. Each restaurant listed has a page to itself with links to reviwes in mags and papers, vital stats (cuisine, price, hours, mode of payment etc.) AND information on public transit and parking. Can’t beat that!

I like covering new business ideas and entrepreneurial ventuers on my blog. The stories are often simple, yet very interesting. Like in this case -McBride thought of this idea when he wasn’t able to find a good resource to find a good restaurant in San Diego. Co-founder and wife, Jennifer, a producer for VH-1, loved Chris’s idea of restaurant videos. They started working on the idea last year and went live this April. I played around the site and it is pretty exhaustive!

Savory has plans to launch a San Fransisco and Chicago version soon. I only have one beef with them : the big cities are overdone! Maybe concentrating on the little-er cities makes more sense. I could be wrong but my guess is- being in NY/SF/LA, you are constantly deluged with information, websites and travel guides. There are just too many options!! But in case of smaller cities like Philadelphia, a concept like this would really hit it off. (or maybe I’m just partial to Philly!)