My favorite that I've used for years, foursquare, is shutting down in a few days. Pretty bummed because I found some of the best restaurants I've ever been to with it. 15 years and thousands of reviews, all in the trash now.
Google maps is useless for most cities, in mine every restaurant has a 4.7-4.8, and seems gamed.
Yelp is an awful company I'd rather not use, and its based on top reviewers, rather than reviews.
Tripadvisor is missing way too much to be useful.
What are ppl using nowadays?
- Google Maps
- Happy Cow
- DuckDuckGo searches such as "best vegan in Philadelphia".
I use Happy Cow. In addition to having a vegan filter it doesn't seem very gsmed yet.
I also check new restaurant openings at a local aggregator.
I'm probably getting downvoted for this, but tripadvisor has been good for me. Not a lot of opinions compared to Google Maps but I have yet to find a shit restaurant in their top 10 places.
I know stuff is missing from it and it doesn't have reviews, but when i'm on my own i just check organic maps first, if i find something that looks decent i just try it.
when traveling with others i often have to turn to tripadvisor or google maps to make sure to find something they like, not everyone is as happy to just try as me.
Google maps, and that is a fallback option. I prefer asking locals on where they go to.
