Saturday 7 July, 2012

Zomato Restaurant Guide 2012

What do you do after a long day of working like a Trojan, when you are justifiably starving and wish to chill out at the right spot, with the right food and with the right person (well, you need to take care of that). Apart from this you are also not so tech-savvy and even if you are since you must be tired already, it would seem like a big task to switch on the PC and go online and look for an eat-out to relax. Let alone call up a friend only to get their suggestions after listening across to a myriad of their problems.

This is when Zomato may come to your rescue with their premier issue of Zomato Restaurant Guide 2012. The book comes with some special features like QR codes for easy browsing into the menus through one’s 3G phone, categories of restaurants broken down into fetching exclusive sections, user reviews, ratings etc.

The book has a novel set of restaurant categories that range from Casual Dining to Girls’ Night Out and from Catching-Up to Best Wine List and from Business and Travel to Romantic Dinner. These 20 categories are thought-provoking, indeed, making us wonder and question ourselves what really the purpose of our sortie is and what all choices there could be at our disposal to make it worthwhile and memorable.

A special attention has been paid to an assortment of international cuisines with categories as Asian & Oriental, Italian & European besides, North Indian and Mughlai intensifying the Indian cuisine. In fact, there is a special section for desserts and bakes especially for those who can’t resist the sweet edible course. In the same section we have options of aboriginal French patisseries too that are otherwise quite hard to find here.

The guide is user-friendly and quite easy to use as it has visual icons that make it easier for users to understand the given information. For example, An image of a ‘bicycle’ signifies if the place allows Home Delivery option or not, for dining option there is a set of fork, spoon and knife, the usual green and brown mark for vegetarian and non-vegetarian, a small credit-card look alike to denote the same; hence, adding appeal to it.

The average ratings and user reviews provided with every restaurant entry help the user in getting an idea of what to expect from the place that catches his attention, however, keeping in mind that choice of every individual differs and varies extensively making them quite subjective.

The number of entries in the book is quite limited and very exclusive that makes it pretty tight. However, in their defence and which, frankly, makes sense too, that they have got their website for that as it caters almost ALL the eating-joints of the city. This book is meant to be occasion based. The pages mostly incorporate only sought after and rather posh locations. It is surely a delight for those who love to splurge and explore new places.



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