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How do you choose a new restaurant to try? (1 Viewer)

How do you choose new restaurants to try?

  • Word of mouth/personal recommendation

    Votes: 85 74.6%

  • Yelp reviews

    Votes: 35 30.7%

  • Tripadvisor reviews

    Votes: 18 15.8%

  • Google maps/reviews

    Votes: 32 28.1%

  • Restaurant website

    Votes: 31 27.2%

  • Photos of food

    Votes: 25 21.9%

  • Internet search

    Votes: 29 25.4%

  • Online rankings/"Best new restaurants of 2022 in XXXXX", etc

    Votes: 29 25.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 22 19.3%
  • Total voters
    114
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
Because while I can afford it - it will suck if all reservations require that you pay a fee. 
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An extra fee, sure. But the only thing I’ve encountered is leaving a credit card to secure a reservation - nothing charged unless you cancel on short notice.

While annoying, not the end of the world, and arguably better for ensuring tables are utilized, helping businesses and patrons alike.

 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
You know how that ends right? Eventually you are forced to go through a second party site and then you pay for tables in advance. 
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Wrong. Open table is the best system out there for restaurants. It lets the restaurant take reservations at any time of day, in a fraction of the time and it also allows the restaurant to not have someone answer thE phones in the morning.   You, as a user, don’t pay for anything on open table, unless the restaurant sets it up that way. A la new years eve, to guarantee the table. 

 
restaurants taking a cc for a reservation, is a newer, more common thing, post Covid. The industry is hurting. This ensures that people honor their reso.  That being said, I’ve only encountered it once.  At an incredibly busy sushi bar in park city. You have to reserve weeks in advance, they don’t answer the phone and discourage/don’t take walk ins. 
 

but again, it’s not open table doing it, it’s the restaurant. 

 
DA RAIDERS said:
Wrong. Open table is the best system out there for restaurants. It lets the restaurant take reservations at any time of day, in a fraction of the time and it also allows the restaurant to not have someone answer thE phones in the morning.   You, as a user, don’t pay for anything on open table, unless the restaurant sets it up that way. A la new years eve, to guarantee the table. 
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OK. Nobody’s arguing against it working or not. I like how just because it’s free now the idea that it could move to a pay model is just nuts and out of the question. Lol. 
 

 
Couple of good instagram accounts for foodies in my hometown of Wichita. 

I'm usually hitting 95% local joints unless someone justs insists on a chain or I'm short on time.  

 
DA RAIDERS said:
restaurants taking a cc for a reservation, is a newer, more common thing, post Covid. The industry is hurting. This ensures that people honor their reso.  That being said, I’ve only encountered it once.  At an incredibly busy sushi bar in park city. You have to reserve weeks in advance, they don’t answer the phone and discourage/don’t take walk ins. 
 

but again, it’s not open table doing it, it’s the restaurant. 
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yeah I had to do it a few weeks back.  Tried a new Mexican place that only took reservations.  Once I got there I saw why they only had like 10 tables, if that

 
While I use opentable, especially in areas I'll be visiting and know nothing of the local scene, I'm a little skeptical of how they operate.  There have been multiple times when I'm looking for  reservation locally, and opentable doesn't even show a particulate restaurant as an option.  So I go to the website, and it says reserve with opentable.  So I click the link, and it takes me to opentable and shows the available times there.

 
Word of mouth. There are probably some app services that don't fee the restaurant directly, but I assume they all do so we don't use them unless there is no other way to contact the restaurant in advance. 

 
DA RAIDERS said:
restaurants taking a cc for a reservation, is a newer, more common thing, post Covid. The industry is hurting. This ensures that people honor their reso.  That being said, I’ve only encountered it once.  At an incredibly busy sushi bar in park city. You have to reserve weeks in advance, they don’t answer the phone and discourage/don’t take walk ins. 
 

but again, it’s not open table doing it, it’s the restaurant. 
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Yuki yama?

 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
Because while I can afford it - it will suck if all reservations require that you pay a fee. 

 
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That's never going to be the case. I can only see 5 to 10% of all restaurants being able to charge that. It's never going to gain mass adoption.

 
Hastur said:
I recently joined a 'foodie' group on FB that focuses on my area. I'm now hearing about a lot of different restaurants I hadn't heard of before, with reviews, pictures, level of service, etc.
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For local places, this is the way. I've been in a Facebook group for my city for a little over a year now and I've already got a list of like 20 restaurants I want to visit/try.

For when we're traveling, I typically have used TripAdvisor, but based on the responses here, I'll pay more attention to OpenTable going forward.
 
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Dan Lambskin said:
Eater is usually a good resource too
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I’m surprised Eater hasn’t gotten more play in this thread. They skew a little bit more foodie, but I’ve never really disagreed with them on a restaurant once I’ve been to it. They don’t really do reviews, but all these different list types with Essential and Hottest being the best for an area.

They’re pretty much always my first place to look.
 
Will folks please use the report button on these when you see a bot? Only one poster did.

It's super important to help us keep the forum readable.
 
jamny said:
I'm also in a few Boise Food facebook pages and get a lot of good recs from there. I put them in as a favorite in Google maps for further research and always have the new ones easily visible.
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Hastur said:
I recently joined a 'foodie' group on FB that focuses on my area. I'm now hearing about a lot of different restaurants I hadn't heard of before, with reviews, pictures, level of service, etc.
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I am part of and use many local FB groups to explore places i have not tried. As I am in industry, i often know what is opening before the general public (ie: eagerly awaiting the soft opening of a new french restaurant in town).

When i am away, I'll check yelp for what is nearby or what i am in the mood for... always looking for cuisine not readily available in my town.
 
Of course friends recommendations at times. Although that has been a disappointment too. Local news articles. I do check reviews. Tend to filter out all the non restaurant related bad reviews..like misgendering, waitress looked at me funny, etc etc. I try to look at the mid range reviews th emost as they are usually more detailed and balanced.
 
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