![]() Users who create an account could track dining experiences (menu items, price of meal, and photos), and could create a "Wishlist" to save restaurants for future use and a "Guide" to share personal lists of dining favorites. Users could then participate in the simple "like" or "don't like" rating system to review restaurants, and share restaurant information with friends via email, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and Pinterest, and by photo pages. Via its apps and webpage, Urbanspoon offered a restaurant search utility, with filtering by price, type of food, neighborhood, nearby businesses (movie theaters, sports venues, etc.), and special features (gluten-free fare, child-friendliness, BYOB-service, etc.). In these and other efforts to develop the product, the results were apps that were aware and competitive with alternative businesses Yelp and Where. In its evolution from an initial and popular iPhone application, UrbanSpoon adapted its appearance and capabilities, including to the Android market. It offered services via its website and standard apps for mobile operating systems. Urbanspoon was a restaurant information and recommendation service that operated in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ( November 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. operations, or that it will retain a couple of sites, including Dallas, the new site of Zomato's U.S. Business reports as of October 2015 indicate either that Zomato-Urbanspoon has ceased all U.S. Zomato (previously Urbanspoon) offices were closed, including the former corporate headquarters in Seattle. Zomato had previously ceased Urbanspoon app development, leading to departure of all Seattle engineers by August 2015. However, Zomato discontinued the Urbanspoon website on June 1, 2015, redirecting Urbanspoon traffic to Zomato servers at the same time, Urbanspoon's logo was incorporated into a new Zomato logo. The Urbanspoon website and Seattle business operation initially evolved with addition of content team workers for door-to-door data collection of restaurant information, an operational design that had served Zomato well in India. In January 2015, Zomato, an India-based restaurant search and discovery service, acquired Urbanspoon. Liz Cook is a restaurant critic for The Pitch and writer of the experimental food newsletter Haterade.Urbanspoon was a restaurant information and recommendation service founded in 2006 by former Jobster employees that offered its services in North America and parts of English-speaking Australasia and Europe. Whether you’re touring the high-end tasting rooms in downtown KCMO or the low-key carnicerias in KCK, every restaurant is working to ensure you feel right at home. By all means dress for dinner if you like, but no one’s going to make a fuss if you forgo the white collar for something more casual (and less vulnerable to barbecue sauce stains). ![]() The uniting feature of Kansas City’s dining scene isn’t a single ingredient or style of cuisine, but an inclusive Midwestern hospitality that infuses even the most stately dining rooms with a little warmth and whimsy. Today, you’re as likely to stumble across a hand-pulled noodle shop or vegan lunch counter as a brisket sandwich. ![]() But chefs have been expanding the city’s palate for decades. ![]() Barbecue, burgers, and butchery are still a critical part of the restaurant scene. The city’s culinary scene was in large part defined by the Black pitmasters that established its barbecue traditions and the cattle ranchers that thronged the Kansas City Stockyards (the second-largest in the country after Chicago) to fill their smokers. To many, Kansas City will always be a cowtown. ![]()
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