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1 Yummy Link: Everyone's Using OpenTable
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2 Are You Willing to Hold Tables With Your Credit Card?
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3 How Do You Make Reservations?
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4 Yummy Links: From Leftover Pizza to Outdoor Dining in SF
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5 Is It OK For Restaurants to Cancel Unconfirmed Reservations?
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6 Yummy Links: From Candy Corn to Pumpkin Dishes
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7 Yummy Links: From Mike Tyson to Robert Downey Jr.
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8 What Are the Hottest New Restaurants in Your Town?
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9 Yummy Links: From Weird Food Names to Bad Cooking Habits
The 25 weirdest food names, and what they sound like. — Bon Appétit Could OpenTable face new competition from Google? — San Francisco Chronicle Presenting Guilt Taste, Ruth Bourdain's parody of Gilt Taste. — Twitter Just wondering: would you buy sushi from Walgreens? — Grub Street SF Beware of exploding watermelons! — Guardian Border patrol snags 385 pounds of contraband bologna. — Read more
Around 42,000 new restaurants open each year, and Spring seems to be award season for the ones that experience immediate success. This week, online reservations site OpenTable released a list of the nation's 10 hottest new restaurants, and they include everything from Stephanie Izard's Girl & the Goat in Chicago to Cleo in Los Angeles. I was surprised to discover that no Bay Area Read more
Mike Tyson might be opening a kosher restaurant chain. — Eater Caffeinated alcoholic drink Four Loko buckles to the pressure and goes decaf. — Atlantic Food Why OpenTable is like iTunes, only worse. — Grub Street NY KFC's bestselling Double Down has mysteriously disappeared in Canada. — Globe and Mail NBC rolls out The Feast, another food site, in selected US cities. — The Read more
Learn how to make candy corn from scratch. — Serious Eats Take a visual tour through the Obamas' garden. — Feast Meet AppleJack and Calvados, Fall's signature spirits. — The Atlantic Is OpenTable worth it? — Inside Scoop SF Find out what Iron Chef Jose Garces eats on a regular basis. — Grub Street Phillie Combine vanilla beans and vodka and you'll get vanilla extract. — Read more
To land a dinner time for two at Tyler Florence's new restaurant, Wayfare Tavern, I booked a month in advance through OpenTable. Two days before my reservation, I received a message asking me to reconfirm. Before I had a chance to call back, I received another. In a standoffish tone, the hostess said, "We are calling to confirm your reservation for tomorrow night. If we do not hear from you by 7 Read more
The best way to reheat leftover pizza. — Slice Paula Deen has been robbed by her maid. — Huffington Post Food The person behind Ruth Bourdain is still a mystery. — Wall Street Journal Yelp has partnered with Opentable. — Eater All salt is not created equal. — Chow Is seaweed the new superfood? — The Epi-Log The two Franks behind The Frankies Spuntino Cookbook discuss their dreams Read more
If you're looking for a place to eat, Yelp is a great service, offering reviews, photos, recommendations, and even useful apps for checking out places on the go. Now, you can also make reservations straight from the site through a new partnership with reservations site OpenTable. While users must have an account with Yelp (and be logged into it) to access the pop-up, you do not need to have an Read more
The Open Table app for the iPhone has changed my mobile dining life, but even if you're not an iPhone user, you can now get in on this action. Open Table has launched free mobile apps for both the Palm Pre and the BlackBerry! Open Table jumped on the mobile trend early, and I'm glad to see them making their way into non-Apple app stores as well. If you needed another excuse to spontaneously dine Read more
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal that reviewed online dining reservation applications prompted a discussion I had with PartySugar about the preferred method for booking reservations. If possible, I'll score a reservation online; it's convenient and sites such as OpenTable offer incentive points for doing so. Party, however, always prefers to book over the phone; she believes it's Read more
The other day, I was on OpenTable to book a reservation at Range, a popular restaurant in San Francisco, and the online service prompted me to enter in my credit card number. It may not be the norm, but some restaurants — like Agave and Momofuku Ko — stand by this policy. Although it could seem risky to reveal a credit card number before any sort of purchase has been made, the practice seems Read more
