Sunday, November 12, 2006

Menumaps: now 83% more!

I’ve been traveling in Europe since May, which means that I haven’t really had a need to find restaurants in North America, and thus haven’t really been on top of menumaps. (On that note, if you’re looking for places to eat in Italy, I’d highly recommend picking up Slow Food’s Osterie & Locande d’Italia) But I noticed a while back that the good folks over at menupages added a few more cities and people have been so kindly inquiring as to when I would include them. So when I got linked from a Philips Ad in the New York Times, it seemed like it was some to do a svn commit.

I’ve added 3 more cities and have been busy mining whatever I can. I’ve added phone numbers, links to the restaurant’s website and links directly to Open Table for those that have them. (I’m using the menupages partner code for this, so if there’s any sort of money changing hands because you book nothing comes to me.) There are a lot of places with websites, and it’s pretty neat to look through them all. Or at least you can waste plenty of time at it. It’s surprising how many places actually have a web site—you can limit the results to places that have either websites or online booking to make it easier.

That moves us up to a grand total from 8,756 to – wait for it – 16,108 restaurants into the system. That’s a lot of dots!

CityOld CountNew CountWebsitesOpenTable
New York493955351957347
Boston11861261743118
San Francisco200921991102269
Chicago246628461112143
Los Angeles 14781015157
Philadelphia 108172783
Washington DC 804814157


I’ve also cleaned up the URLs a bit, and while I was at it, added links directly to city neighborhoods. This makes it easier to pass around links and you know, it just seems cleaner.



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