Top 10 iPhone Apps for Foodies

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    • foodie.jpgFrom eating out to cooking at home, foodies have it made thanks to the large number of delicious iPhone apps available to help them find, order, and make tasty meals.  From locating the hottest new restaurants to reserving a seat at a local favorite, from tracking down farm fresh produce to cooking a five-course meal, the following selection of foodie-centric iPhone apps will make your life positively scrumptious. 

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    1. Urbanspoon
    Urbanspoon is one of the best restaurant finders on the iPhone, allowing
    you to search and browse by neighborhood, cuisine, and price (or a
    combination of the three).  One of the best features of Urbanspoon is
    the “slot machine,” which lets you shake your phone for a random dining
    recommendation (though you can lock in a specific area, type of food, or
    price range).  The app offers both user and critic reviews for each
    restaurant, and for iPhone 3G S owners, the newest version of Urbanspoon
    augments reality with a camera overlay view showing the nearest
    eateries.
     
    Price: FREE
     

    Josh Catone
    Josh Catone
    Josh Catone joined Mashable in May 2009 and is Features Editor. Before joining Mashable, Josh was the Lead Writer at ReadWriteWeb, the Lead Blogger at SitePoint, and the Community Evangelist at DandyID. He's written about technology since 1998 for magazines, newspapers, and web sites, and he is the co-founder of Rails Forum, the web's largest community for Ruby on Rails developers. He attended the University of Rhode Island and Ithaca College.

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    • http://profile.typepad.com/jaymandel Jay Mandel

      Good list… What about Yelp!?

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003406316969 Cinta

        Waaaaay to rationalize our chocies in life! Too bad we tend to choose to avoid communicating how we really feel. Had we just done so, we MIGHT have achieved greater mutual understanding with those we have issues with, sooner, rather than later.

    • http://profile.typepad.com/thecynch TheCynch

      I vote for Foursquare. :)

      Here’s an article about how restaurants benefit from apps and social media:

      http://www.thecynch.com/how-restaurants-benefit-from-social-media/

    • http://profile.typepad.com/sheolx jamcruz

      hummm… yummy!

    • http://profile.typepad.com/verngill Vern Gill

      FoodTrucker does not appear to be free….

    • http://profile.typepad.com/catone Catone

      @Vern: Seems it’s no longer on sale (it was at the time of the writing).

    • http://profile.typepad.com/6p0000000000000014 Mark

      Wow…yelp not even listed???!!! I’m a serious foodie, buy cant stand urbanspoon. Yelp is so much better.

    • http://profile.typepad.com/6p0000000000000014 ck

      My vote is on Seasons … http://www.seasonsapp.com The app comes with seasonal data for US, UK and Europe, is multilingual and has local farmers markets as well.

    • http://profile.typepad.com/6p0000000000000014 Susan

      check out foodspotting- FREE

    • http://profile.typepad.com/irick Pam Irick

      Thrilled with Big Oven – just what I was looking for – between that and the Epicurious app I have some serious recipes at my fingertips! I wish the Menu Page app had listings for Houston, Texas because I would use it all time. Maybe they will add it at a later time. Nice list, thanks!

    • http://profile.typepad.com/6p0000000000000014 Franklin Piens

      Great Post!! I allready found some of the app’s myself, but it wasn’t even 70% of the ones you mentioned here. Thanx for the Work!!

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003406350829 Gabriela

        I see that this post has won the best personal blog in the Philippine Blog Awards 2010, and this ineded is worth it. Way. If I were a judge, you could have won 10 times over. Unfortunately, I was not.I’m looking forward to more posts from you Don’t worry I’m easy to please. Hehehe!As for this one, I was touched.Congratulations!

    • http://profile.typepad.com/mir2 Miriam Fogarty

      Great! Are there any apps out there for the foodies who like the inedible cooking-eating-drinking-entertaining tools/accessories/stuff? Especially apps with a focus on design and function?

    • http://profile.typepad.com/lguinn Lguinn

      Love Urbanspoon, hate Yelp! To each his own!

    • http://profile.typepad.com/6p0000000000000014 Culinary Cory

      This is a good list. Very similar to a list of foodie apps I posted back in July.

    • http://profile.typepad.com/6p0000000000000014 Factotum

      Great list. I thought our foodessentials scanner was worth a consideration. It allows you to scan food barcodes and view the allergen additive, nutrient and ingredient properties to better find healthier products.

      http:// foodessentials.com

      We only just released 2 weeks ago and have some great reviews. And just submitted a new really exciting release that allows you to customize your label view with any of 30,000+ ingredients.

      Would love to know what people think.

    • http://profile.typepad.com/fullmeals01 mcornelius

      I just wanted to share this amazing app that I found called Sweet’N'Spicy at http://itunes.apple.com/app/sweennspicy/id393738867 from Fullmeals.net. It has everything! It has over 3000 recipes non-vegetarian, vegetarian and vegan. I’ve never seen so many recipes! And it’s free! :D

    • http://profile.typepad.com/nupa123 cathy miller

      love all food apps, excellent thing to have handy

    • http://profile.typepad.com/farmanac Farmanac

      Great list of food apps. We’d like to suggest checking out our recently released app Farmanac. It’s a produce guide that allows users look up items by name or plu number. You’ll find beautiful photos for each piece of produce with information such as organic status, how to store, how to select, wheather it’s in season, and general background info on 1400+ fruits and vegetables. Check it out at http://getFarmanac.com

    • http://profile.typepad.com/restuputri Restu Putri

      Try this mobile website foodler.mobi . It’s not bad at all. Don’t worry about download and install app. The best thing is it compatible with any smart phone (iPhone or android phone)

      Try with your phone not with your laptop or desktop.
      foodler.mobi